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Table 1 A representative list of sorghum genotypes/varieties showing varying degrees of susceptibility to BMV

From: An efficient and improved method for virus-induced gene silencing in sorghum

Sorghum bicolor genotypea

Percent of plants showing disease phenotype after BMV challengeb

BMV::GFP

BMV::anti-Ubiq

BTx623

100.00

100.00

Rio

100.00

83.33

Topper 76

80.00

61.54

PI 641817

54.77

50.00

N122B

41.67

33.33

N588

18.18

16.67

  1. aMore than ten plants of each line were used for screening.
  2. bTwo weeks old sorghum plants were rub inoculated with BMV::GFP or BMV::anti-Ubiq and plants showing BMV infection symptom were scored three weeks after inoculation.