Research Focus
Research area is plant breeding and germplasm expertise in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. Research focus includes taxonomy and distribution of sorghum, research on field based drought tolerant mechanisms, and overall curation of sorghum.
Projects
- Cultivate sorghum test plots of engineered and wild-type lines, collect initial phenotypic data, including lodging and pest susceptibility
- Review and plant sorghum line phenotypes and identify sorghum ideotype(s) for bioenergy and bioproduct production
- Plant lines to explore natural sorghum variation, and JBEI lines under three irrigation regimes, full ET water, pre-flowering, and post-flowering drought stress and storage methods to be explored
- Examine agronomic effects (e.g. harvest timing, irrigation, leaf/stem) on quality and yield parameters
Featured Publications
- “Compositional and agronomic evaluation of sorghum biomass as a potential feedstock for renewable fuels”, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy (2011)
- “Assessing sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] germplasm for new traits: food, fuels & unique uses”, Maydica (2011)
- “Compositional and agronomic evaluation of sorghum biomass as a potential feedstock for renewable fuels”, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy (2011)
- “Variation in biomass composition components among forage, biomass, sorghum-sudangrass, and sweet sorghum types”, Crop Sci (2012)
- “The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae)”, Taxon (2007)
- “Multivariate calibration models for sorghum composition using near-infrared spectroscopy”, Tech. Report NREL (2013)
- “Properties of field-sprouted sorghum and its performance in ethanol production”, Journal of Cereal Science (2010)