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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2019

Biomass and Bioenergy Potential of Brown Midrib Sweet Sorghum Germplasm.

Luis A Rivera-Burgos, Jeffrey J Volenec, Gebisa Ejeta

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Forage biomass and nutrient quality in brown midrib (BMR) compared to conventionalJournal of advanced veterinary and animal research · 2025
    Article
  3. Genome-wide identification of theFrontiers in plant science · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luis A Rivera-BurgosDepartment of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Jeffrey J VolenecDepartment of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Gebisa EjetaDepartment of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Purdue University West Lafayette · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public appetite for fossil fuels continues to drive energy prices and foment the build-up of intractable environmental problems. Ethanol (ETOH) production from lignocellulosic biomass grown in marginal lands offers a sustainable alternative without diverting arable land from food and feed production. The quantity and quality of lignocellulosic biomass can be enhanced by the abundant genetic diversity for biomass production as well as stem sugar and lignin composition in sorghum (

Indexed as

brown midrib mutationethanollignocellulosic biomassrecombinant inbred linesSorghum bicolorstem sugar concentration

Identifiers

PMID31616450
PMCPMC6764086
OpenAlexW2969262684

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Registered trials

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