Slowly digestible, high antioxidant sorghum: a new wholegrain food paradigm to help combat type 2 diabetes. This project has the potential to lead to benefits to several sectors of the community. Government and consumers will benefit by new sorghum foods helping to reduce diabetes, heart disease and obesity and the economic and quality of life burden of these diseases; health professionals will benefit through availability of new food products to recommend for disease risk-reduction and control; ....Slowly digestible, high antioxidant sorghum: a new wholegrain food paradigm to help combat type 2 diabetes. This project has the potential to lead to benefits to several sectors of the community. Government and consumers will benefit by new sorghum foods helping to reduce diabetes, heart disease and obesity and the economic and quality of life burden of these diseases; health professionals will benefit through availability of new food products to recommend for disease risk-reduction and control; food processors will benefit through new value-added healthy food products for both the domestic and export markets and sorghum growers will benefit through a new opportunity to produce sorghum grain for higher value markets.Read moreRead less
Fertility crisis: harnessing the genomic tension behind pollen fertility in sorghum. Hybrid sorghum varieties yield more grain than inbred varieties but the production seed for farmers can be difficult. This project will identify the genes responsible for a trait that makes hybrid seed production possible and this knowledge will help raise sorghum yields in Australian and in some of the world’s poorest countries.