A novel sorghum variety designated XS4424 and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are produced from a cross of inbred sorghum varieties. Methods for producing a sorghum plant comprise crossing hybrid sorghum variety XS4424 with another sorghum plant. Sorghum variety XS4424, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety XS4424 are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into sorghum variety XS4424 include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation of one or both inbred parents. The sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced thereby are described.

Monocot seeds treated with various cyanobacterium compositions, methods of making the treated seeds, and methods of using the seeds to improve monocot plant growth, biomass, nitrogen uptake, nutrient uptake, lateral root growth, lateral root hair growth, vertical root growth, root branching and/or yield are provided.

This invention relates to novel mutations in a sorghum gene, Msd3, which increase the seed yield in sorghum. The nucleic acid sequences of this mutated gene and its encoded protein(s) are included. This invention also relates to genetically altered plants having this mutated gene and/or containing the mutated protein and which have increased flower production and seed yield and lower jasmonic acid production.

A novel sorghum variety designated 2PDET37R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety 2PDET37R with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety 2PDET37R with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 2PDET37R include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety 2PDET37R or a locus conversion of 2PDET37R with another sorghum variety are disclosed.

High throughput methods are described for identifying combinations of mutations that can be used to improve a phenotypic feature in an organism. Large populations of organisms (e.g., plants) containing different combinations of mutations can be assessed using the methods.

An object of the present invention is to provide a sorghum variety that has higher biomass, and contains a high proportion of sugar raw material (i.e., a higher sugar content). The present invention provides an improved plant derived from sorghum variety 74LH3213, wherein chromosome 6 DNA is partially or entirely substituted by a DNA region comprising a high-sugar-content locus qBRX-6 derived from sorghum variety SIL-05; and an improved Tentaka variety obtained by crossing the improved 74LH3213 plant with sorghum variety MS79A.

Disclosed herein are nuclear male sterile sorghum mutants, three-component genetic constructs, and methods of using said mutants and genetic constructs, such as in a two-line male sterility system for hybrid breeding.

A novel sorghum variety designated XS7614 and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are produced from a cross of inbred sorghum varieties. Methods for producing a sorghum plant comprise crossing hybrid sorghum variety XS7614 with another sorghum plant. Sorghum variety XS7614, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety XS7614 are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into sorghum variety XS7614 include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation of one or both inbred parents. The sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced thereby are described.

The invention provides for sorghum plants and plant parts developed through tissue culture, gene editing or other methods of mutagenesis in which the plant or plant parts have increased tolerance to one or more acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) herbicides at levels that would normally inhibit the growth of wild-type sorghum plants. In this context, the sorghum plant may be tolerant to any herbicide capable of inhibiting acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme activity. The present invention allows for the screening of ACC herbicide tolerant hybrids with markers or application of ACC inhibiting herbicides, and for the removal of unwanted vegetation with application of ACC inhibiting herbicides from seed and grain production fields.

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the sorghum variety designated GSV864306. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety GSV864306, and to methods for producing a sorghum plant produced by crossing a sorghum plant of variety GSV864306 with itself or with another sorghum plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to sorghum seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety GSV864306 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety GSV864306.