The more the merrier in this new #JIPB #BriefComms!
Zhang et al. use two natural Multi-Grain Spikelet 1 variants to enhance #grain number in #sorghum, with exciting potential for future high-#yield #breeding strategies.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13871
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #CropSci #FreeAccess 
#botany
#Sorghum develops aerial roots and (like maize) produces abundant carb-rich mucilage after rain. @jeanmichelane &co show that diazotrophic #bacteria in the aerial roots can fix nitrogen, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers #plosbiology https://plos.io/3EYPZjK
Black sorghum & Great Northern tempeh sectioned and stored after a total fermentation time of 75 hours.
Details here: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
@vegancooking @wfpb
#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #tempeh #sorghum
48 hours along in the latest batch of tempeh, the fungus has pretty well covered the grain and beans of the substrate. The full story of this batch, a mix of black sorghum and Great Northern beans:
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
@vegancooking @wfpb
#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #tempeh #sorghum #beans
New batch of tempeh underway: black sorghum and white bean (Great Northern beans).
Details: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
@vegancooking @wfpb
#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #tempeh #blackSorghum #sorghum
FAS: Bulgaria corn crop smallest in 12 years https://www.byteseu.com/760769/ #barley #Bulgaria #canola #corn #CornMilling #CornWetMilling #Feed #FeedMilling #flour #FlourAdditives #FlourMilling #GrainIndustry #maize #rapeseed #rice #sorghum #SoslandPublishing #soy #soya #soybeans #wheat #WorldGrain
Curtailment of the USAID program is expected to heavily impact U.S. sorghum farmers because most sorghum is exported rather than consumed in the U.S. Here's a summary of sorghum's nutritional value relative to other grains:
#Sorghum's resistance to #Striga: Two key #genes fight against #crop #parasites.
#parasites #strigolactone #transporters #hormones #SbSLT1 #SbSLT2 #AI #crops #agriculture
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-sorghum-resistance-striga-key-genes.html
Without USAID's Food for Peace, grain elevators have no market for sorghum #agriculture #usaid #kansas #sorghum #cartoon
Mit Drohnen und KI Beikräuter im Pflanzenbau bekämpfen. TFZ veröffentlicht Forschungsbericht. www.tfz.bayern.de #Sorghum #KI #Beikräuter
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/02/10/mit-drohnen-und-ki-beikraeuter-im-pflanzenbau-bekaempfen
From lab to field: CABBI pipeline delivers oil-rich sorghum for biofuel and feedstock
Del laboratorio al campo: aceite de sorgo para biocombustible y alimento para ganado
Nueva variante de sorgo puede superar a la soja en la producción de aceite, con gran potencial como fuente limpia de combustible renovable
Pretty cool research with sorghum. FTA, “researchers have been engineering high-biomass grasses like sorghum to produce oil”.
Sorghum requires less water than soybean and can withstand higher temperatures too.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-sorghum-variant-outperforms-soybeans-oil.html #Sorghum #Biofuel
Love this trailer! 
#foraging #sustainability #sorghum
https://youtu.be/rjGl0Myf3Aw?si=Du-0A191IE2Wk52h
the whole youtube channel is delightful
The world seems on track to produce more #rice, #wheat & #soybeans than ever before, but production of #sorghum & #millet (key staples in Sub-Saharan #Africa) has barely grown. #Yields of most these crops are equal or slightly higher than previously: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/food-production-2024
I've been seeing a few #transcriptome wide association studies (TWAS) papers lately. This is another example, from #sorghum, combining GWAS and TWAS to study flowering time. Bonus - I imagine that there's a lot more value that can be gained from the 822 #RNAseq samples made publicly available
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628249v1.full.pdf
(4/x) Vast areas of good US cropland are used to grow animal feed (#corn #alfalfa #hay #sorghum), not crops to directly nourish humans. Also globally a lot of prime #farmland no longer produces human food directly, raising #foodsecurity concerns: https://drawdown.org/insights/greenwashing-and-denial-wont-solve-beefs-enormous-climate-problems #landuse
A generic phenomenological 
