Sorghum

• Grain Sorghum
  
  Worldwide, sorghum is a food grain for humans. In the United States, sorghum is used primarily as a feed grain for livestock. Feed value of grain sorghum is similar to corn. The grain has more protein and fat than corn, but is lower in vitamin A. Whe ...
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/sorghum.html

• The Sorghum For Syrup
  
  Sorghum was introduced to the United States from Africa in the early part of the seventeenth century. It was not grown extensively in this country until the 1850s, when the forage variety Black Amber also called Chinese sugarcane was introduced from ...
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/syrup.html

• The CGIAR Sorghum
  
  Sorghum, an important staple food crop in Africa, South Asia, and Central America, is the fifth major cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley. It is also grown in the United States, Australia, and other developed nations for anim ...
  http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/sorghum.html

• Sweet sorghum R and D
  
  Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L. Moench] is the only crop that provides grain and stem that can be used for sugar, alcohol, syrup, jaggery, fodder, fuel, bedding, roofing, fencing, paper and chewing. It has been used for nearly 150 years to produce ...
  http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/sorghum.htm

• The Greenbugs in Sorghum
  
  The greenbug is the most important insect pest of grain and forage sorghums in Nebraska. Although numbers fluctuate from year to year, greenbugs are a limiting factor to sorghum yield in most years. Their management is complicated by the fact that gr ...
  http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Agriculture/Field_Crops/Cereals/Sorghum/Pests_a...

• The Sorghum Diseases
  
  Diseases of grain sorghum reduce both seed quality and yield. Losses to disease have increased in recent years. Anthracnose can be a serious problem in fields where grain sorghum has been grown continuously. This disease attacks both foliage and stal ...
  http://www.aces.edu/dept/grain/sorghumDIS.php

• Sorghum and Millet
  
  The applied research supported by IDRC emphasised small scale processing of sorghum and pearl millet near the farm in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and India. The key hardware technology was the dry abrasive disc dehuller, which was able ...
  http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch09-02.htm

• The Common Diseases of Sorghum
  
  Information on various diseases which may affect this crop with photographs of some, the life cycle of the causal agent, the symptoms and plant health management. This disease is caused by the fungus Peronosclerospora sorghi Weston & Uppal C.G. Shaw ...
  http://nu-distance.unl.edu/homer/disease/agron/sorghum/

• Sorghum vulgare
  
  Information on 14 diseases which may affect this crop, with photographs of some. ...
  http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/Grains/Sorghum/sortop.html

• Forage sorghums
  
  Sorghum Sorghum vulgare Pers. is indigenous to Africa, and many of todays varieties originated on that continent. Sorghum was also grown in India before recorded history and in Assyria as early as 700 BC. The crop reached China during the thirteenth ...
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/forage.html