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Registration of BN611, AN612, BN612, and RN613 Sorghum Genetic Stocks with Stacked bmr ‐6 and bmr ‐12 Genes
Author(s) -
Pedersen J. F.,
Toy J. J.,
Funnell D. L.,
Sattler S. E.,
Oliver A. L.,
Grant R. A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of plant registrations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1940-3496
pISSN - 1936-5209
DOI - 10.3198/jpr2008.01.0065crs
Subject(s) - sorghum , biology , sorghum bicolor , agronomy , botany
Four sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] genetic stocks, BN611 (Reg. No. GS‐140, PI 652943), AN612 (Reg. No. GS‐141, PI 652944), BN612 (Reg. No. GS‐142, PI 652945), and RN613 (Reg. No. GS‐143, PI 652946), with stacked brown midrib genes bmr‐ 6 and bmr‐ 12 were developed jointly by the USDA‐ARS and the Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, and were released in July 2006. The genetic stocks BN611, AN612 and BN612, and RN613 were tested as Atlas bmr ‐6 bmr ‐12, Wheatland bmr ‐6 bmr‐ 12, and RTx430 bmr ‐6 bmr ‐12, respectively. Release of these genetic stocks makes stacked brown midrib genes, reported to reduce the activity of two enzymes important in lignin synthesis, cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase ( bmr ‐6) and caffeic acid O‐methyl transferase ( bmr ‐12), available in a common forage sorghum, a common grain sorghum seed parent, and a common grain sorghum pollen parent background. The genetic stocks have immediate application for basic research involving lignin synthesis.