Agronomy and Horticulture, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1993

Citation

American Forage and Grassland Council, Meeting held March 29-31, 1993, Des Moines, Iowa. Proceedings 1993. v. 2

Comments

U.S. Government Work

Abstract

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash) appear closely related based on morphological and chemotaxonomic characters. Each species could potentially provide desirable traits to the other. However, traditional breeding techniques have been unsuccessful in hybridizing these two species. The objective of this study was to determine the relatedness of sorghum and indiangrass chloroplast DNA using RFLPs. Eleven sorghum lines in several cytoplasms, two indiangrass popu1ations, and a corn line were studied using 60 proberestriction enzyme combinations. Principal component analysis of the results showed sorghum to be as closely related to corn as to indiangrass, with no overlap of clusters among the three groups.

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