目前,在美国和欧洲种植的甜高粱品种多用于制糖浆、饲料和青贮饲料,而今后高粱可能将朝向由发酵糖和木质纤维物质转化为酒精或直接燃烧的能量生产方向发展。我们对高粱细胞和组织的离体培养,是考察甜高粱生物量潜力(biomass potentials)计划的一部分。高粱细胞已可培养,并观察到了根的形成(Mascarenhas等,1975)。还有人报道过从高粱苗组织的 Currently, sweet sorghum varieties grown in the United States and Europe are mostly used in the manufacture of syrups, feed and silage and in the future sorghum may develop towards energy production from the conversion of fermented sugars and lignocellulosic material to alcohol or direct combustion. Our in vitro culture of sorghum cells and tissues is part of a project to examine the biomass potential of sweet sorghum. Sorghum cells have been cultured and root formation observed (Mascarenhas et al., 1975). Others have reported tissue from sorghum seedlings