Sorghum bicolor

Overview

Genus Sorghum
Species bicolor
Common Name Sorghum, great millet, broomcorn,
guinea corn, durra, imphee,
jowar, or milo
Abbreviation S. bicolor
Ploidy Diploid
Chromosome Number 2n=2x=20
Genome Size 730 Mb
Genome Assemblies 30
Cross Reference NCBI taxon: 4558

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Description

Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol production. Sorghum originated in Africa, and is now cultivated widely in tropical and subtropical regions.

Whole Genomes

Whole Genome Sequences & Annotations for Sorghum bicolor

S genes

Sorghum bicolor v3 S genes

QueryChromosomeSize(bp)CoordinatestBLASTn HittBLASTn %IDDomain
DUF247I-SΨCM000769.3CM000769.339942597-39943907Pvaginatum53DUF247
DUF247II-SCM000769.3CM000769.340147020-40148642Shybrid68DUF247
HPS10-SCM000769.3CM000769.339548240-39548328,
39548478-39548589
Pnotatum47-
DUF247I-ZCM000765.3CM000765.358005227-58006798Shybrid61DUF247
DUF247II-ZΨCM000765.3CM000765.358014272-58015681Shybrid57DUF247
HPS10-ZCM000765.3CM000765.358009038-58009114,
58009313-58009451
SspontaneumZ260-

Downloads

The Sorghum bicolor S gene sequences are available in FASTA format.

CDS and Protein (FASTA file) S-gene_Sorghum_bicolor

Publications

Paterson AH, Bowers JE, Bruggmann R, Dubchak I, Grimwood J, Gundlach H, Haberer G, Hellsten U, Mitros T, Poliakov A, Schmutz J, Spannagl M, Tang H, Wang X, Wicker T, Bharti AK, Chapman J, Feltus FA, Gowik U, Grigoriev IV, Lyons E, Maher CA, Martis M, Narechania A, Otillar RP, Penning BW, Salamov AA, Wang Y, Zhang L, Carpita NC, Freeling M, Gingle AR, Hash CT, Keller B, Klein P, Kresovich S, McCann MC, Ming R, Peterson DG, Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Ware D, Westhoff P, Mayer KF, Messing J, Rokhsar DS. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses. Nature. 2009 Jan 29;457(7229):551-6. doi: 10.1038/nature07723.

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