QUANTIFYING CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL OF SORGHUM CULTIVARS THROUGH FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING

An overall goal of the project is to quantify and evaluate the carbon sequestration potentials of select three sorghum cultivars in a southern Texas environment. The project aims to provide an initial baseline dataset that will allow us to extrapolate the knowledge to the surrounding region. While quantifying carbon sequestration potentials of sorghum, we will take the opportunity to quantify soil nitrogen and N2O emissions of each plot to characterize the relationship between environmental parameters and GHGs (e.g., CO2) using an N2O trace-gas analyzer and lab analysis for carbon and nitrogen of soil and plant. This opportunity will help investigate the relationship between GHGs and environmental parameters for three different sorghum cultivars.