Biology:Sorghum propinquum

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Short description: Species of plant

Sorghum propinquum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Sorghum
Species:
S. propinquum
Binomial name
Sorghum propinquum
(Kunth) Hitchc.[1]
Synonyms[2]

Sorghum propinquum is a species of wild Sorghum native to most of tropical Asia, from India to Southeast Asia, southern China, Malesia and Papuasia.[2] A perennial, rhizomatous diploid with the same number of chromosomes (2n=20) as the annual, non-rhizomatous diploid Sorghum bicolor, it is being studied for its potential for sorghum crop improvement.[3] In an ancient hybridization event with S. bicolor, it gave rise to Johnson grass (S. halepense), one of the planet's worst weeds.[4]

References

  1. Lingnan Sci. J. 7: 249 (1931)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:422187-1. 
  3. Foster, Tyler L.; Baldi, Heather D.; Shen, Xiaoqing; Burson, Byron L.; Klein, Robert R.; Murray, Seth C.; Jessup, Russell W. (2020). "Development of novel perennial Sorghum bicolor × S. propinquum hybrids". Crop Science 60 (2): 863–872. doi:10.1002/csc2.20136. 
  4. Paterson, Andrew H.; Kong, Wenqian; Johnston, Robyn M.; Nabukalu, Pheonah; Wu, Guohong; Poehlman, William L.; Goff, Valorie H.; Isaacs, Krista et al. (2020). "The Evolution of an Invasive Plant, Sorghum halepense L. ('Johnsongrass')". Frontiers in Genetics 11: 317. doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00317. PMID 32477397. 

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