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What’s coming in SorghumBase Release 3?
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 24 January 2022

SorghumBase release 3 is expected in March 2022 with an expansion of genetic variation data.

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Planta publication describing SorghumBase
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 11 January 2022

Gladman and colleagues describe SorghumBase, an open access community portal focused on sorghum genomic and genetic resources.

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SorghumBase release 2 is out with 13 new sorghum genomes
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 12 November 2021

The release provides access to 13 new sorghum varieties (Tao et al, 2021), for a total of 18 sorghum reference genomes, and 6 other species to support phylogenetic analyses, and cross-species comparisons.

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Help us chart the future of agricultural data! – AgBioData RCN kick off meeting Sept 1st @ 1 pm ET
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 31 August 2021

The AgBioData RCN kick off meeting is on Sept 1st at 1 pm ET.

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Sorghum bicolor Tx2783
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 July 2021

The genome of Sorghum Tx2783, a sugarcane aphid (SCA)-resistant line, has been assembled and annotated by (Wang et al, 2021).

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Sorghum bicolor RTx436
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 July 2021

The Sorghum bicolor inbred line RTx436, used in the development of high-yielding hybrids, has been assembled and annotated by (Wang et al, 2021).

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Sorghum bicolor RTx430
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 July 2021

Sorghum bicolor RTx430, a grain sorghum inbred commonly used as pollinator in hybrid production, whose genome is known to be rich in repeats, was assembled and annotated by (Deschamps et al. 2018).

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Sorghum bicolor Rio
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 July 2021

Sorghum bicolor ‘RIO’, an archetypal sweet sorghum line characterized by their ability to produce a high concentration of soluble sugars in the stalk, which can be extracted for human consumption, was assembled and annotated by (Cooper et al, 2019).

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Sorghum bicolor BTx623
  • SorghumBase Team
  • 06 July 2021

Sorghum bicolor inbred variety ‘BTx623’ has short stature and an early maturing genotype and is used primarily to produce grain sorghum hybrids. It is a line susceptible to sugarcane aphid and sensitive to low nitrogen, and therefore often used in functional comparative studies.

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