Advanta to Develop Enhanced Sorghum Varieties
January 8, 2010| |
Advanta, a global seed company headquartered in India, is set to develop a pipeline of biotech and conventional traits to move sorghum towards becoming a key crop in North America and the world. "The pipeline of traits under development at Advanta will have a tremendous impact upon the future of sorghum as a mainstream crop in the U.S. and abroad," says Cleve Franks, PhD, plant geneticist and breeder at Advanta US. "And the range of traits in development is quite broad, from cold tolerance to herbicide tolerance and nitrogen use efficiency to salt tolerance."
Advanta says research and development activities will generate sorghums with better energy conversion, better forage production, higher sugar contents and production improvements like herbicide tolerance.
Advanta's press release is at http://www.advantaus.com/pdfs/trait%20pipeline2.pdf
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