Foliar diseases in sorghum are primarily a problem in the United States—in the Delta, southeast and Mid-Atlantic states—where humid and rainy weather favor their proliferation. Of these diseases, ...

video: Sorghum anthracnose devastates crops of the drought- and heat-resistant cereal worldwide. Priming with rhizobacteria can boost the plant's resistance against a range of microbial attacks.

With sorghum poised to become an important crop grown by Pennsylvania farmers, researchers tested more than 150 germplasm lines of the plant for resistance to a fungus likely to hamper its production.

More than three decades of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Indian National Agricultural Research System (NARS) partnership sorghum improvement ...

The primary limiting factor in crop production across the United States and the world is water availability. Sorghum is well known for its tolerance to drought; however, one of the consequences of ...

The bioenergy crop sorghum holds great promise as a raw material for making environmentally friendly fuels and chemicals that offer alternatives to petroleum-based products. Sorghum can potentially ...