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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Goal: Improve sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum through investigating the mechanisms regulating carbon allocation to stems. This research will use a combination of approaches to identify bioenergy relevant genes and to understand their functions in carbon partitioning in sweet sorghum. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia.