SORGHUM is a major cereal crop of marginal rainfall areas of the...widely grown in temperate regions. Recent annual grain sorghum yields have exceeded 61 000 000 Mg worldwide, with 13 207...the USA (Smith, 2000). Twenty-five species form the genus Sorghum (Lazarides et al., 1991) which consists of five ...

SORGHUM is native to Sub-Saharan Africa and has been cultivated...centuries as a staple cereal grain in much of Asia and Africa. Sorghum became economically important in the semiarid plains of...central USA in the 1800s (Duncan et al., 1991). Before 1950, sorghum production was based on self-pollinated ...

SORGHUM GRAIN primarily is used as an animal feed in the USA and is the second most important feed...before feeding are a few of the major aspects known to affect variation in feed quality of sorghum grain. In feed lot cattle, the feeding value of sorghum grain is considered to be 85 to 100% that of maize, ...

Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) holds great promise as a source of bioethanol in...and the developed world Known variously as "grain sor ghum" or "sweet sorghum," ac cording to the intended end use sorghum is well adapted to growth...

Sorghum is fifth in worldwide economic importance among cereal crops (Doggett, 1988). The range of sorghum-growing environments including longitude, latitude, precipitation...such diverse environmental factors and cultivators, the sorghum crop has evolved into a vast array of forms (Morden et...

ABSTRACT Whole sorghum flour was fermented (a five-day natural lactic...degrees]C, and evaluated for its effect on sorghum and wheat composite bread quality. In comparison with unfermented sorghum flour, fermentation decreased the flour pH...

Sweet sorghum syrup, a natural sweetener that was a...muffins, and cookies can be sweetened with sorghum syrup. Chewy confections like caramels...parts of the world, a very common type of sorghum known as milo is grown for its grain...

While sorghum has been part of the human diet in Africa...for centuries, in the United States the sorghum crop has been used mainly to feed livestock. However, worldwide, more than 50% of sorghum is grown directly for human consumption...

Sorghum Cleanses Nitrogen Laden Soil Crops that clean up nitrogen...feedlots. ARS researchers in Lincoln, Nebraska, report that sorghum has an exceptional ability to absorb nitrogen from the...fibrous root system. We've been able to capitalize on sorghum's natural ability to act as a scavenger of nitrogen, ...

ABSTRACT Sorghum bran, a coproduct of sorghum dry milling, could be a source of protein for industrial applications. Condensed tannin-free red and white sorghum samples were decorticated by abrasion until [asymptotically...