Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Agronomy
First Advisor
Clifford Weil
Second Advisor
Mitchell Tuinstra
Committee Member 1
Bruce Hamaker
Abstract
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) is the world’s fifth most important cereal crop and a dietary staple for approximately 500 million people in over 30 countries of the Semi-Arid Tropics. Unlike other major cereals such as maize, sorghum becomes much less digestible after it is cooked in the presence of water, often providing as little as 20% of the available protein to the consumer. Digestibility appears to be under genetic control, although the specific details remain unclear. The goals of these studies were to identify sorghum cultivars that do not show this large decrease in digestibility after cooking and to determine the genetic controls of increased digestibility in a previously identified sorghum mutant, P721Q.
Recommended Citation
Massafaro, Moriah, "Mapping and Identification of Increased Protein Digestibility in Sorghum" (2015). Open Access Theses. 1066.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/1066