![]() ![]() Sweet sorghum crops produce sugar syrups which could form the basis of fermentation processes for methane or ethanol production and some of the forage types of the plant may be suitable for biomass production. ![]() Sweet sorghum biomass is rich in readily fermentable sugars and thus it can be considered as an excellent raw material for fermentative hydrogen production - hydrogen is an important commodity for the refining industry and new sources are continually sought (Parkash, 2003 Gary et al., 2007 Speight, 2014 Hsu and Robinson, 2017 Speight, 2017). Sweet Sorghum is an extraordinarily promising multifunctional crop known not only for its high economic value but also for its capacity to provide a very wide range of renewable energy products, industrial commodities, food, and animal feed products. Sweet sorghum is a warm-season crop that matures earlier under high temperatures and short days. Sweet sorghum can be considered as an energy crop, because it can be grown in all continents, in tropical, sub-tropical, temperate regions as well as in poor quality soils. The most common types of sorghum species are those used for the production of grain. This crop has been cultivated on a small scale in the past for the production of table syrup, but other varieties can be grown for the production of sugar. Sweet sorghum is a name given to varieties of a species of sorghum. Lodging can result in harvest problems with ensuing loss of yield from both initial and ratoon crops. Both sweet and forage sorghum have a high potential for lodging. Sorghum varieties producing tall plants with large stems make the best candidates for biomass production. Forage sorghum has been selected for high yields of reasonably good quality animal feed. Sweet sorghum has been selected for its sugar content and is normally grown for molasses production. One species is grown for grain, while many others are used as fodder plants, either cultivated in warm climates throughout the world or naturalized, in pasture lands. ![]() Seventeen of the 25 species are native to Australia with the range of some extending to Africa, Asia, and Central America as well as to islands in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae. Sorghum is an annual tropical grass with a large genetic variation that is a crop with the potential for energy production. ![]()
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