Forage sorghum is a promising feedstock for the production of biofuels and bioproducts because it drought tolerant, high-yielding, familiar to farmers across world. However, spans diverse range phenotypes, unclear which are most desirable as bioenergy feedstocks. This paper explores four forage types, including brown-midrib (bmr), non-bmr, photoperiod sensitive (PS), insensitive (non-PS), from ...

Metabolomics is an emerging method to improve our understanding of how genetic diversity affects phenotypic variation in plants. Recent studies have demonstrated that genotype has a major influence on biochemical variation in several types of plant tissues, however, the association between metabolic variation and variation in morphological and physiological traits is largely unknown. Sorghum bi...

Forage sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a C4 cereal crop with excellent quality, which widely cultivated in many countries and regions. Acid detergent fiber found the stem leaf tissues of plant, main substance affecting digestibility livestock. It has very important impact on milk yield quality cows, dairy sheep pigs. In order to further understand its genetic mechanism, we re-sequenced...

Replacing portions of fallow between sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] harvest and wheat (Triticum aestivum) planting with cover crops provides opportunity to increase productivity profitability in dryland winter wheat–sorghum–fallow (WSF) cropping systems. The objective this study was identify potential spring replacement management optimize resource use efficiency a WSF system. conducted ...

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of diet and monensin on performance, digestibility, and methane production in steers fed forage-based diets. In Exp. 1, 72 individually fed steers (300 ± 25 kg) were used in a randomized block design arranged as 2 separate 2 × 2 factorials with two common treatments, thus 6 diets were fed with 12 steers per treatment. Factors included hig...