http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/7110 2013-09-18T09:38:12Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/7110/ Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)- A new generation water use efficient bioenergy crop Rao, P S Prasad, J V N S Umakanth, A V Reddy, B V S Sorghum Biofuels have been widely recognized as a best alternative to insulate emerging economies against fastly depleting fossil fuels coupled with highly volatile prices. Sweet sorghum is a multipurpose bioethanol feedstock with greater adaptability with triple benefits (food, fodder and fuel) and cannot be part of much debated food vs. fuel issue. This article gives a brief overview of research results on water use and water use efficiency of sweet sorghum, a new generation bioenergy crop. This feedstock performs superior at many locations in terms of resource use efficiency vis a vis sugarcane, corn and tropical sugar beet and scores fairly well for adaptation to dry land conditions due to its inherent characteristics The Indian Society of Dryland Agriculture 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/7110/1/IJDARD_26_1_65-71_2011.pdf Rao, P S and Prasad, J V N S and Umakanth, A V and Reddy, B V S (2011) Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)- A new generation water use efficient bioenergy crop. Indian Journal of Dryland Agriculture Research and Development, 26 (1). pp. 65-71. ISSN 0971-2062 http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijdard&volume=26&issue=1&article=009 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage