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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

2018

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Energy Invests $1.1 Million in Sorghum Disease Resistance Research at Illinois

Sorghum is traditionally grown for the grain, but newer cultivars have been developed to maximize vegetative biomass, a key trait for lignocellulosic bioenergy production. But before sorghum can meet its full potential as a bioenergy crop, it will need to become more resistant to diseases that can reduce its ability to produce biomass.

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