SorGSD: a sorghum genome SNP

Background: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is one of the most important cereal crops globally and a potential energy plant for biofuel production. In order to explore genetic gain for a range of important quantitative traits, such as drought and heat tolerance, grain yield, stem sugar accumulation, and biomass production, via the use of molecu‑ lar breeding and genomic selection strategies, knowledge of the available genetic variation and the underlying sequence polymorphisms, is required. Results: Based on the assembled and annotated genome sequences of Sorghum bicolor (v2.1) and the recently pub‑ lished sorghum re‑sequencing data, ~62.9 M SNPs were identified among 48 sorghum accessions and included in a newly developed sorghum genome SNP database SorGS