Oily Sorghum (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Oily Sorghum

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New research aims to convert sugar-rich crops like sorghum (pictured) and sugarcane into oil-rich crops. Scientists will suppress flowering in sorghum (except in crops used to produce seeds for propagation) to divert more of its energy into oil-production.

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Institute for Genomic Biology

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