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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Rao, P S
creators_name: Prasad, J V N S
creators_name: Umakanth, A V
creators_name: Reddy, B V S
icrisatcreators_name: Rao, P S
icrisatcreators_name: Reddy, B V S
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: CRIDA(Santoshnagar)
affiliation: Directorate of Sorghum Research(Rajendranagar)
country: India
title: Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)- A new generation water use efficient bioenergy crop
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.4
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Bioenergy, bioethanol, sweet sorghum, water use, water use efficiency, adaptability
abstract: 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
date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: Indian Journal of Dryland Agriculture Research and Development
volume: 26
number: 1
publisher: The Indian Society of Dryland Agriculture
pagerange: 65-71
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0971-2062
official_url: http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijdard&volume=26&issue=1&article=009
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citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/7110/1/IJDARD_26_1_65-71_2011.pdf