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Sweet Sorghum for Biofuel and Strategies for its Improvement

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Information Bulletin No. 77
 
Title Sweet Sorghum for Biofuel and Strategies for its Improvement
 
Creator Rao, S P
Rao, S S
Seetharama, N
Umakath, A V
Reddy, P S
Reddy, B V S
Gowda, C L L
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Self-sufficiency in energy requirements is critical to the success of any
emerging economy. Renewable sources of energy are considered to be one of the major
pillars of energy security that reduces dependence on fossil fuels besides negating the
negative effects on the environment. Sweet stalked sorghums, popularly referred to as
sweet sorghums, are multipurpose crop plants that provide food, fodder, feed, fiber and
fuel at affordable prices to the rural poor, grows well in areas receiving more than 700 mm
annual rainfall and located between 40o south and north of the equator. Popularization
of this crop in semi-arid tropic (SAT) areas will bring smallholder and marginal farmers,
besides rural poor, into the biofuel revolution as it enhances socio-economic returns on
their holdings. In addition to providing a comprehensive latest global bioethanol scenario,
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of biofuels, this
information bulletin makes an attempt to describe and discuss the different issues impeding
the productivity of sweet sorghum, conventional and molecular methodologies/tools to
enhance sugar yield without hampering grain yield. This bulletin also gives a bird’s eye view
of the development of high biomass low lignin sorghums amenable for second generation
ethanol production and different value chain linkage models with an emphasis on sweet
sorghum improvement programs at ICRISAT and elsewhere.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2009
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1354/1/295_2009_IB77_SS_for_biofuel.pdf
Rao, S P and Rao, S S and Seetharama, N and Umakath, A V and Reddy, P S and Reddy, B V S and Gowda, C L L (2009) Sweet Sorghum for Biofuel and Strategies for its Improvement. Manual. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.