Kankshita Swaminathan

The paper induces and characterizes autotetraploid sweet sorghum lines to improve sugar production for bioethanol, showing equal or better performance than diploid lines.

The paper analyzes RNA-seq data to identify stem-preferred genes and regulatory networks in sorghum, finding two validated transcription factors involved in stem development.

This study uses CRISPR-Cas9 to generate sorghum mutants and analyzes their nitrogen response and growth trajectory using high-throughput phenotyping.