In order to study effect of phosphorus fertilizer and micronutrients foliar application on yield sorghum, a field experiment was conducted in at 2011 in Research Farm of Payame Noor University of Zahedan, Iran. This experiment was done as split plot Based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Experiment treatments included: micronutrients foliar application containing ele...

Sorghum and millets can have excellent quality for processing but to obtain that inherent quality a value added, chain securing, identity preserved grain for processing into profitable upscale urban products is necessary. Processing technology is not the major obstacle to successful production of products. Consistent supply of a modest quality grain is the major constraint. Several examples of ...

Sorghum is the important cereal crop around the world and hence understanding and utilizing the genetic variation in sorghum accessions are essential for improving the crop. A good understanding of genetic variability among the accessions will enable precision breeding. So profiling the genetic diversity of sorghum is imminent. In the present investigation, forty sorghum accessions consisting o...

Behavioral responses of S. zeamais to odours from pulverized wheat, brown rice, sorghum, buckwheat, peanut and cork were compared in a Y-tube-olfactometerbioassay. Results showed that both sexes responded to host volatiles and males were more sensitive than females. The strongest responses to grains of wheat and brown rice were found, and insects reared on these were dramatically heavier than o...

BACKGROUND Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is one of the most important cereal crops globally and a potential energy plant for biofuel production. In order to explore genetic gain for a range of important quantitative traits, such as drought and heat tolerance, grain yield, stem sugar accumulation, and biomass production, via the use of molecular breeding and genomic selection strategies, knowledge o...

The objectives of this work were to determine carbohydrate composition and in vitro digestibility of DM and nonstarch polysaccharides (NSP) in corn, wheat, and sorghum and coproducts from these grains. In the initial part of this work, the carbohydrate composition of 12 feed ingredients was determined. The 12 ingredients included 3 grains (corn, sorghum, and wheat), 3 coproducts from the dry gr...

Two separate experiments were conducted with sheep‘ grazing Pangola grass pastures. In the first experiment, eight groups of pregnant ewes (six ewes/group) were used. Each group received one of the following supplements, no supplement (control), phosphorus, sodium, iodine, cobalt, mineral mixture, sorghum grain and sorghum grain plus urea. Ewes supplemented with cobalt lost less weight during l...

Despite the high levels of polyphenolic phytochemicals in grain sorghum and its position as a major food staple, there has been a lack of research on its effects on both animal and human health and disease prevention. These phenolic compounds, mainly located in the bran fraction, result in the plant having substantial antioxidant properties. This study examined the effect of ethanol extracts of...