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William Rooney

Professor of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University
Verified email at tamu.edu
Cited by 15048

Designing sorghum as a dedicated bioenergy feedstock

WL Rooney, J Blumenthal, B Bean… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing cost of energy and finite oil and gas reserves has created a need to develop
alternative fuels from renewable sources. Currently, the development of a renewable …

Genetic improvement of sorghum as a biofuel feedstock: I. QTL for stem sugar and grain nonstructural carbohydrates

SC Murray, A Sharma, WL Rooney, PE Klein… - Crop …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic improvement of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] has traditionally focused on
a single nonstructural carbohydrate, either grain starch or stem sugar. Sorghum starch and …

Genetic diversity of public inbreds of sorghum determined by mapped AFLP and SSR markers

MA Menz, RR Klein, NC Unruh, WL Rooney… - Crop …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The objectives of this study were (i) to assess the level of genetic diversity in elite sterility‐maintaining
(B) and fertility‐restoring (R) sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] lines as …

Magnetic field and tissue dependencies of human brain longitudinal 1H2O relaxation in vivo

WD Rooney, G Johnson, X Li, ER Cohen… - … in Medicine: An …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Brain water proton ( 1 H 2 O) longitudinal relaxation time constants (T 1 ) were obtained from
three healthy individuals at magnetic field strengths (B 0 ) of 0.2 Tesla (T), 1.0T, 1.5T, 4.0T, …

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging and potential therapeutic applications in neurooncology and central nervous …

…, B Hamilton, WD Rooney… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles have diverse diagnostic and potential
therapeutic applications in the central nervous system (CNS). They are useful as magnetic …

Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of sorghum grains of varying genotypes

…, LW Rooney, RD Waniska, WL Rooney - Journal of agricultural …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The effects of plant color, pericarp thickness, pigmented testa, and spreader genes on phenols
and antioxidant activity levels of 13 sorghum genotypes were evaluated. Total phenols, …

Community resources and strategies for association mapping in sorghum

…, G Pressoir, PJ Brown, SE Mitchell, WL Rooney… - Crop …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Association mapping is a powerful strategy for identifying genes underlying quantitative
traits in plants. We have assembled and characterized genetic and phenotypic diversity of a …

[HTML][HTML] Unmanned aerial vehicles for high-throughput phenotyping and agronomic research

…, JA Thomasson, SC Murray, NA Pugh, WL Rooney… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Advances in automation and data science have led agriculturists to seek real-time, high-quality,
high-volume crop data to accelerate crop improvement through breeding and to optimize …

Features of sweet sorghum juice and their performance in ethanol fermentation

X Wu, S Staggenborg, JL Propheter, WL Rooney… - Industrial crops and …, 2010 - Elsevier
As demand for and production of fuel ethanol increase to unprecedented levels, feedstocks
for ethanol production will become more diverse. Sweet sorghum is an ideal feedstock for …

Coincident light and clock regulation of pseudoresponse regulator protein 37 (PRR37) controls photoperiodic flowering in sorghum

…, DT Morishige, JA Brady, WL Rooney… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Optimal flowering time is critical to the success of modern agriculture. Sorghum is a short-day
tropical species that exhibits substantial photoperiod sensitivity and delayed flowering in …