The sorghum community has more multi-environment, multi-trait datasets than we realize says James Schnable in his closing remarks. Substantial investment involved in collecting the metadata and combining datasets from different research groups but an invaluable resource #sorghum2023

Such a fantastic opening plenary by James Schnable on Day 4 of 21centurysorghum 2023 Montpellier highlighting multiple exciting research activities with the overarching principle of democratisation of data resources for the community to use and use again! Awesome work James. #sorghum23

Dilys MacCarthy from University of Ghana closes this plenary west African perspective on Resilience and Sustainability of Sorghum productivity in the face of Climate Change. #sorghum2033

Dilys MacCarthy closes with a call to embrace the 3 pillars of sustainability to build and maintain sorghum productivity. #sorghum2023

Partial fertility in sorghum CMS lines creates all sorts of headaches for breeders. Under control of 40+ loci. Discourages breeders from introgressing otherwise valuable new genetic diversity into female heterotic pools in sorghum - David Jordan #sorghum2023

David Jordan highlights complexity of partial fertility in sorghum. Breeders typically manage this through conservative crossing but this has consequnces incl reduced genetic gain through low genetic variance in females. Genomic selection provides options to address this! #sorghum23

A full house for the #SorghumIdeaChallenge at #sorghum2023. A panel of distinguished experts will evaluate which innovation should receive seed funding.

The #SIC is a participation and learning effort for young career scientists. The focus emphasizes transparent decision-making, taking smaller steps, networking, etc. #sorghum2023

#sorghum2023 advice from The #SorghumIdeaChallenge for young career scientists: “Take the time to let your ideas mature…like fine wine, they are better with time.” #Montpellier2023 #globalsorghumconference

Magic sorghum! Melinda Yerka from Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture describes a great new resource for both applied and fundamental research in sorghum from trait discovery to deployment. 21centurysorghum 2023 Montpellier #sorghum23

It is decision time! The audience will cast their votes for the #SorghumIdeaChallenge, to help determine which research team receives seed funding for their project. Members of the jury will also cast their votes for the winner. #sorghum2023

Closing session: nearly 50 countries, 400+ attendees, and 150 institutions/groups have made the #GlobalSprghumConference an incredible success. #sorghum2023

#sorghum2023 Farmer organisations represented. Co design to reap maximum benefits of research

Please help us congratulate the winners of the Best Talk competition from #sorghum2023. FIRST PLACE: Daniel Otwani, UQ News Runner up: Genevieve Durrington, University of Queensland

Our congratulations to the winners of #sorghum2023 poster competition! FIRST PLACE: Erick Mikwa from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. Runner-up: Mamadou Sene, INRAE

Applause please for the winners of the #3MT competition, sponsored by AusSORGM. WINNER: Carolina D’alemeida, @INRAE_OCC_MPL RUNNER-UP: Goldman Maukamansasira, ScuolaSantAnna PEOPLE’S CHOICE: Aminata Berthe, #Mali

Congratulations to the winner of the #SorghumIdeaChallenge! The team of Rose Otema Baah, Emilie Danielle Mbock, Charles Antwi win a €5000 seed grant for their project, “Production of Tea Sachets made of Sorghum Stem-Sheath, enriched with ginger and cloves.” #sorghum2023

Emma Mace and I are very proud of our student Otwani Daniel Ajaku winner of the best student presentation 21centurysorghum 2023 Montpellier

#GSA chair announces Texas Tech University as the host for the next host of the #GlobalSorghumConference!

And that is a wrap! It has been our honor and our pleasure to see everyone this week, to learn about new innovations in every aspect of sorghum research, and to make connections that will lead to stronger collaborations into the future. See you in Texas in 2026! #sorghum2023