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Taxon:  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. bicolor



Summary
Genus:
Sorghum
Section:
Sorghum
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
454806
Verified:
03/05/2008 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (0 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse (1 active accession[s])
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench subsp. verticilliflorum (Steud.) de Wet ex Wiersema & J. Dahlb. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Holcus bicolor L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot.
Holcus sorghum L.
Sorghum vulgare Pers.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Batra, L. R. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. 1995
  2. CIAT/FAO collaboration on tropical forages. Grassland Species Profiles (on-line resource). http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/agpc/doc/gbase/Default.htm
  3. de Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:479. http://www.amjbot.org
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species.
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  7. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  9. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  10. Nair, N. V. et al. 2006. Characterization of intergeneric hybrids of Saccharum using molecular markers. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 53:163-169. Note: tested the use of RAPD markers to identify genuine hybrids, it verified hybridization between Saccharum officinarum and this taxon. All hybrids were phenotypically closer to Saccharum since it contributes the major part of the genome
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  13. Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:944. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  14. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
  15. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
broomcorn –
durra –
feterita –
forage sorghum –
grain sorghum –
great millet –
Kaffir-corn –
milo –
shallu –
sorghum –
sweet sorghum –
Ethiopia
bachanta –
French
gros mil –
sorgho –
German
gewöhnliche Mohrenhirse –
nickende Mohrenhirse –
Zuckerhirse –
India
jowar –
Italian
sorgo –
Japanese Rōmaji
morokoshi –
Portuguese
sorgo –
Spanish
daza –
sorgo –
Swedish
durra –
Transcribed Chinese
gao liang –
Transcribed Korean
susu –
Distribution
Cultivated (cult. throughout tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Food additives
flavoring (for beer fide Amer J Bot 65:480. 1978) –
Fuels
petroleum substitute/alcohol (fide N. El Bassam 1998) –
Human food
beverage base (fide Amer J Bot 65:480. 1978) –
Materials
fiber (for making brooms & brushes fide Pl Book) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide F Yemen) –


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