Santosh Deshpande

The paper demonstrates how a global pangenomic breeding network can develop and deploy drought and pest-resistant sorghum varieties for smallholder farmers in Niger.

This paper constructs a sorghum pangenome and identifies trait-associated variants to inform climate-aware genome-enabled breeding strategies.

This study investigates the genetics of fertility restoration in A1 cytoplasmic male sterility systems in sorghum, finding it is controlled by a single dominant gene in F2 and BC1 populations.

The paper evaluates pollen fertility in sorghum hybrids using visual counting and image analysis, finding image analysis to be 95% efficient in detecting sterile vs. fertile pollen.

This study develops a sorghum pan-genome to explore its functional utility in accelerating genetic gain by identifying genes and SNPs associated with agronomic traits and drought tolerance.

This paper introduces a sorghum Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG) that enables accurate SNP calling and imputation from low-coverage sequencing data, improving genomic prediction accuracy and reducing genotyping costs.

The paper presents genome-wide marker datasets and population structure analyses for three minor millets, revealing subpopulations and validating SNP accuracy using phenotype data.