Sorghum is a genus of numerous species of grasses, one of which is raised for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants either cultivated or as part of pasture.

Sorghum is in the subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Andropogoneae ( the tribe of big bluestem and sugar cane ).

One species, Sorghum bicolor, is an important world crop, used for food ( as grain and in sorghum syrup or " sorghum molasses "), fodder, the production of alcoholic beverages, and biofuels.

Sorghum bicolor is an important food crop in Africa, Central America, and South Asia and is the " fifth most important cereal crop grown in the world ".

Another Sorghum species, Johnson grass ( S. halapense ), is classified as an invasive species in the US by the Department of Agriculture.

* Sorghum flour is made from grinding whole grains of the sorghum plant.

The festival is locally known for the " Old Mill ", a horse-drawn sorghum mill, as well as the Sorghum Bowl, the local high school's homecoming football game.

Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) expresses cyanogenic glycosides in its roots and, thus, is resistant to pests such as rootworms ( Diabrotica spp.

* The 1987 Zhang Yimou film Red Sorghum ( 紅高粱 ; Pinyin: Hóng Gāoliáng ) is set in a rural kaoliang distillery in the Shandong province of China.

He is known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film Red Sorghum.

Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum ( 1986 ).

Sorghum harvest 2008, Linea 14, Agua Dulce Region, Alto ParaguayThe Chaco is one of South America's last agricultural frontiers.

Vetiver is most closely related to Sorghum but shares many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass ( Cymbopogon citratus ), citronella ( Cymbopogon nardus, C. winterianus ), and palmarosa ( Cymbopogon martinii ).

Sorghum syrup is also used on pancakes, cornmeal mush, grits and other hot cereals.

It is regarded as a minor food and fodder crop and is often grown as intercrop or mixed crop with maize ( Zea mays ), sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) or cowpea ( V. unguiculata ), as well as a sole crop in the uplands, on a very limited area.

Red Sorghum () is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor.

Like Zhang's later film, The Road Home ( 1999 ), Red Sorghum is narrated by the main characters ' grandson, but Red Sorghum lacks the flashback framing device of The Road Home ( the viewer never sees the narrator ).

Sorghum, millet ( both fast-and slow-growing ), and maize are the staple crop throughout most of the province, though manioc ( cassava ) is also important on the Adamawa Plateau, and rice is especially popular in cities.

Teff ( Eragrostis tef ) and fonio ( Digitaria exilis ) are also often called millets, as more rarely are sorghum ( Sorghum spp.

Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, ( possibly ) paler.

Sorghum vulgare var.

* Sorghum bicolor — cultivated sorghum, often individually called sorghum.

** Sorghum bicolor subsp.

* Sorghum vulgare var.

* Species Profile-Johnsongrass ( Sorghum halepense ), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.

West Liberty celebrates the annual Sorghum Festival on the last full weekend of September.

* Striga hermonthica, a eudicot, has undergone a horizontal gene transfer from Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) to its nuclear genome.

Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler.

They reported that the Dogon believe that the brightest star in the sky, Sirius ( sigi tolo or ' star of the Sigui '), has two companion stars, pō tolo ( the Digitaria star ), and ęmmę ya tolo, ( the female Sorghum star ), respectively the first and second companions of Sirius A. Sirius, in the Dogon system, formed one of the foci for the orbit of a tiny star, the companionate Digitaria star.

The Huckleberry Mountain Horse Trail has a stop at the Sorghum Hollow Horse Camp which was built and maintained by local horsemen.

A case in point was National Sorghum Breweries ( NSB ), " a black business consortium " founded in 1990, and the first new player in the beer industry in more than 10 years.

Dominant grasses in this area are Dichantium caricasum, Heteropogon contortus and Sorghum nitidum.

Dominant grasses are Dichantium caricasum, Sclerachne punctata and Sorghum nitidum.

Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.

This machine, operating at speeds up to 350,000 revolutions per minute, is believed to provide one of the fastest mechanical operations in industry today.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.

An enemy would obviously choose an agent that is believed to be highly infectious.

It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.

She later divorced Graham, who is believed to have moved to Bolivia.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.

It is significant, too, that the older teen-agers I interviewed believed, unlike the younger ones, that Jewish students tend to do better academically than their gentile counterparts.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

The charges of the electron and proton are believed to be exactly equal and opposite, but Dr. Lyttleton is not so sure.

Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

The first " true alphabet " in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet, which is a modified form of the Phoenician alphabet.

Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.