Designing Sorghum Genome for NextGen Agriculture

Dinesh Kumar Saini, S.V. Krishna Jagadish

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040419090
• Topic: Ciencias biológicas
• Subtopic: Biología

With increasing global food demand and changing climatic conditions, sorghum is an important crop for sustainable agriculture. Its inherent resilience to drought, heat, and poor soils makes it a promising solution for enhancing food security and climate adaptation. To further harness its potential, Designing Sorghum Genome for NextGen Agriculture, authored by leading researchers and experts, explores the latest advancements aimed at improving sorghum's resilience and productivity. This comprehensive resource provides cutting-edge insights into how modern scientific tools and methods are being leveraged to design the sorghum genome for enhanced yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional value.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach, integrating diverse strategies to enhance sorghum's resilience. It highlights current achievements and outlines future directions to harness sorghum's genetic potential as a climate-resilient crop for next-generation agriculture.

Key Features:

• Examines sorghum's global agricultural significance and its role in addressing future climatic challenges
• Covers genomics, pan-genomics, mutagenesis, and targeted gene editing for sorghum improvement
• Highlights physiological, molecular, and microbiome-based strategies to enhance sorghum's abiotic stress tolerance
• Explores the synergy between genomic selection and phenomics for accelerated genetic gain
• Discusses omics approaches and systems biology for advancing sorghum research
• Showcases artificial intelligence and crop simulation modeling as tools for sorghum breeding for enhanced stress tolerance and yield potential

This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, breeders, agronomists, and students working in sorghum genetics, genomics, crop improvement, and sustainable agriculture. By bridging fundamental research with translational breeding strategies, it offers a forward-looking perspective on leveraging genomics for the future of sorghum production.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface to the Series
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Global Importance, Production Trends, and the Need for Designing the Sorghum Genome to Address Future Climatic Conditions
• 2 Advancing Sorghum Improvement by Harnessing Genetic Diversity Through Advanced Tools and Speed Breeding
• 3 Bioinformatics Tools and Resources for Sorghum Omics
•  4 Advances in Molecular Mapping in Sorghum Genome Design
• 5 Sorghum Genomics and Pan-Genomics in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era
• 6 Mutagenesis, Transgenesis, and Targeted Gene Editing in Sorghum Improvement
• 7 Genomic Selection as a Tool to Accelerate Genetic Gain in Sorghum Improvement: Current Status, Integration with Phenomics and Future Prospects
• 8 Progress in Hybrid Breeding for Enhanced Grain Yield, Stress Tolerance, and Quality Improvement in Grain Sorghum
• 9 Omics and Systems Biology Approaches for Developing Climate-Ready Sorghum: Opportunities and Challenges
• 10 Leveraging Physiological Responses to Abiotic Stresses for Next Generation Sorghum Breeding
• 11 Molecular Engineering of Sorghum Root Phenes for Increased Abiotic Stress Resilience
• 12 Redesigning the Sorghum Root Microbiome for Improved Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency
• 13 Omics Approaches to Modulate Sorghum Seed Compositional Dynamics for Improved Health Alternatives
• 14 Leveraging High-Throughput Phenotyping and Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Sorghum Improvement
• 15 Utilizing Crop Simulation Modeling to Address Climate Change Challenges in Sorghum Production: Opportunities and Challenges
• About the Book Editors
• Index