An update on genome research of biofuel sorghum (Sorghum bicolour)
LUO Hong1, ZHANG Limin1, XIA Yan1, WU Xiaoyuan1,2, WANG Cong1,2, LIU Zhiquan1, JING Haichun1
1. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract：Research of sorghum genomes has been accelerated by the development of next-generation sequencing technologies and bioinformatics toolsand has accumulated a large amount of genomics data. This review describes the structural and sequence characteristics of sorghum genome and discusses its evolutionary background from the perspective of comparative genomics. We also highlight new findings obtained through exploiting the genomic informationand future directions of sorghum genome research to develop it into a dedicated biofuel crop.
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