Understanding biodiversity in sorghums to support the development of high value bio-based products in sub-Saharan Africa

N Nyoni, M Dube, S Bhebhe… - Journal of Cereals …, 2020 - academicjournals.org
ABSTRACT Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is one of the most important cereals
worldwide with great genetic diversity. Like most small grains it has good adaptation to …

Leveraging the potential of sorghum as a healthy food and resilient crop in the South African food system

LM Pereira, C Hawkes - Frontiers in sustainable food systems, 2022 - frontiersin.org
An erosion of indigenous and traditional foods in the Global South has dramatically changed
the global food system in the last 50 years. Reinvigorating these crops and the agro …

Optimizing traditional crop** systems under climate change: a case of maize landraces and Bambara groundnut

VGP Chimonyo, EM Wimalasiri, R Kunz… - … in sustainable food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Traditional crop species are reported to be drought-tolerant and nutrient-dense with
potential to contribute to sustainable food and nutrition security within marginal production …

Response of sorghum genotypes to water deficit stress under different CO2 and nitrogen levels

M Asadi, HR Eshghizadeh - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
An open-top chamber experiment was conducted in the present study to investigate the
growth and biochemical responses of six sorghum genotypes under two irrigation regimes …

Biochemical responses of sorghum and maize to the impacts of different levels of water deficit and nitrogen supply

A Nematpour, HR Eshghizadeh - Cereal Research Communications, 2024 - Springer
Abstract During the 2015–2016 growing season, a field experiment was conducted to
investigate the impact of different irrigation regimes (low and severe water stress treatments) …

Enhancing nitrogen and rainwater use efficiency through rainwater harvesting in semi-arid smallholder sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) farming systems

FNM Kubiku, R Mandumbu… - Cogent Food & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nitrogen and rainwater use efficiency in semi-arid smallholder farming systems is low due to
low soil fertility and unreliable rainfall. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of …

Follow the 'ting: sorghum in South Africa

LM Pereira - Food, Culture & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper follows sorghum, an indigenous, but currently underutilized, grain in South Africa,
through six encounters to discover its potential to transform the country's food system. By …

Assessing suitability of sorghum to alleviate sub-saharan nutritional deficiencies through the nutritional water productivity index in semi-arid regions

ST Hadebe, AT Modi, T Mabhaudhi - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lack of cereal nutritional water productivity (NWP) information disadvantages linkages of
nutrition to water–food nexus as staple food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study …

Linear mixed model to identify the relationship between grain yield and other yield related traits and genotype selection for sorghum

MT Messele, T Zewotir, SA Derese, DB Belay… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Sorghum is the most popular crop in arid and semi-arid areas, especially in Sub-Saharan
African countries. Genotype effects, environmental and the interaction of genotype by …

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) yield response to rainwater harvesting practices in the semi-arid farming environments of Zimbabwe: A meta-analysis

FNM Kubiku, R Mandumbu, J Nyamangara… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Rainwater harvesting practices are increasingly gaining recognition as viable adaptation
strategies to overcome rainfall variability caused by climate change in semi-arid regions of …