Sorghum

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a multipurpose, gluten-free, cereal crop from the Poaceae grasses genus, that is cultivated for grain, molasses, animal feed and biofuel. Ranked among the world’s top five cereal grains and central to global food production, it is one of the most consumed staples across America, Africa, India and Australia, where it thrives in the arid climate. According to American archaeobotanist and plant geneticist Jack Harlan (1917–1998), who carried out extensive research on wild plant cultivars from the Near East and their early domestication, “sorghum is one of the really indispensable crops”.