The book 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.
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.
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
Dinesh Kumar Saini is a Research Associate in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University, specializing in crop breeding and genomics. He holds a masters degree in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, India. During his Ph.D. at Punjab Agricultural University, he received prestigious fellowships, including DST-INSPIRE and ICAR-SRF, along with multiple academic honors, including the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor Medals. His research focuses on the physiological, molecular, and histological mechanisms driving climate resilience and yield potential in grain sorghum. He has co-authored over 55 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and numerous abstracts. He actively reviews for reputed journals, serves on editorial boards, and is a member of several professional societies.
S. V. Krishna Jagadish is a Professor and Thornton Distinguished Chair of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University. He earned a masters degree in Agronomy from the University of Agricultural Sciences, India, and a Ph.D. in Crop Physiology from the University of Reading, UK. He previously held positions at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and later became a Professor at Kansas State University. Dr. Jagadish has received numerous awards, including the Kansas State Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Research Award and International Fellow of the Indian Society of Plant Physiology. With over 200 peer-reviewed publications, 16,500+ citations, an H-index of 73, and $25 million in grant funding, his research focuses on abiotic stress tolerance in sorghum, forage systems, water conservation, and soil health, promoting sustainability in the U.S. Southern High Plains.
