Graduate Student University of North Carolina at Charlotte Concord, North Carolina
Body of Abstract: Sorghum bicolor is an adaptable cereal crop that is valued for its water efficiency and drought tolerance. The wild progenitor, Sorghum bicolor subspecies verticilliflorum, still grows alongside domestic varieties in East and Central Africa. Despite documented introgression between wild and domestic varieties, there is relatively few genetic resources available on Wild Sorghum bicolor. Here we describe a detailed assembly and annotation of a novel wild Sorghum genome, a population history analysis based on PSMC, and a set of introgression signatures between a group of domestic and wild Sorghum varieties.