Presence of tannins in sorghum grains is conditioned by different natural alleles of Tannin1

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 109; no. 26; pp. 10281 - 10286
• Main Authors: Wu, Yuye, Li, Xianran, Xiang, Wenwen, Zhu, Chengsong, Lin, Zhongwei, Wu, Yun, Li, Jiarui, Pandravada, Satchidanand, Ridder, Dustan D, Bai, Guihua, Wang, Ming L, Trick, Harold N, Bean, Scott R, Tuinstra, Mitchell R, Tesso, Tesfaye T, Yu, Jianming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 26.06.2012; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Africa; Alleles; antioxidant activity; Antioxidants; Arabidopsis; Base Sequence; Biological Sciences; biomedical research; Biosynthesis; C4 photosynthesis; Cereals; chromosome mapping; corn; crops; Cultivars; digestible protein; digestion; Drought resistance; drought tolerance; Gene mapping; grasses; human health; Hunger; landraces; loci; Medical research; Molecular Sequence Data; mutants; Nutritive value; Obesity; open reading frames; people; Phenols; phenotype; Photosynthesis; Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Genetic; proanthocyanidins; Proteins; Quantitative Trait Loci; rice; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Sorghum; Sorghum (Poaceae); Sorghum - genetics; Sorghum - metabolism; stop codon; Tannins; Tannins - genetics; Tannins - metabolism; testa; Tropical environments; tropics; wheat; Africa

Sorghum, an ancient old-world cereal grass, is the dietary staple of over 500 million people in more than 30 countries in the tropics and semitropics. Its C4 photosynthesis, drought resistance, wide adaptation, and high nutritional value hold the promise to alleviate hunger in Africa. Not present in...