Sorghum propinquum

Short description: Species of plant

Sorghum propinquum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Poaceae
Subfamily:  | Panicoideae
Genus:  | Sorghum
Species:  |

S. propinquum

Binomial name
Sorghum propinquum

(Kunth) Hitchc.[1]

Synonyms[2]

List

*     * Andropogon affinis J.Presl
* Andropogon halepensis var. propinquus (Kunth) Hack.
* Andropogon halepensis subsp. siamensis Piper
* Andropogon propinquus Kunth
* Andropogon sorghum var. propinquus (Kunth) Hack.

Sorghum propinquum is a species of wild Sorghum native to most of tropical Asia, from India to Southeast Asia, southern China, Malesia and Papuasia.[2] A perennial, rhizomatous diploid with the same number of chromosomes (2n=20) as the annual, non-rhizomatous diploid Sorghum bicolor, it is being studied for its potential for sorghum crop improvement.[3] In an ancient hybridization event with S. bicolor, it gave rise to Johnson grass (S. halepense), one of the planet's worst weeds.[4]

## References

1. ↑ Lingnan Sci. J. 7: 249 (1931)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:422187-1.
3. ↑ Foster, Tyler L.; Baldi, Heather D.; Shen, Xiaoqing; Burson, Byron L.; Klein, Robert R.; Murray, Seth C.; Jessup, Russell W. (2020). "Development of novel perennial Sorghum bicolor × S. propinquum hybrids". Crop Science 60 (2): 863–872. doi:10.1002/csc2.20136.
4. ↑ Paterson, Andrew H.; Kong, Wenqian; Johnston, Robyn M.; Nabukalu, Pheonah; Wu, Guohong; Poehlman, William L.; Goff, Valorie H.; Isaacs, Krista et al. (2020). "The Evolution of an Invasive Plant, Sorghum halepense L. ('Johnsongrass')". Frontiers in Genetics 11: 317. doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00317. PMID 32477397.

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