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Kingdom - Plantae
Subkingdom - Tracheobionta
Superdivision - Spermatophyta
Division - Magnoliophyta
Class - Liliopsida
Subclass - Commelinidae
Order - Cyperales
Family - Poaceae (Grass)
Genus - Sorghum
Species - Sorghum bicolor
Subspecies - Sorghum bicolor ssp. arundinaceum -- common wild sorghum
Subspecies - Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor -- grain sorghum
Subspecies - Sorghum bicolor ssp. drummondii - Sudangrass
Species - Sorghum almum -- Columbus grass
Species - Sorghum halepense -- Johnsongrass
Species - Sorghum propinquum -- sorghum
* (From 9)
Synonyms for Sorghum bicolor - Black amber, broom-corn, broomcorn, chicken corn, common wild sorghum, Drummond broomcorn, durra, Egyptian millet, feterita, forage sorghum , great millet, guinea corn, jowar, Kaffir-corn, Kaffircorn, milo, shallu, shatter cane, shattercane, sorghum, Sudan Grass, sweet sorghum, wild cane (5, 9, 10).
Synonyms for Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor:
Holcus bicolor; Holcus sorghum; Sorghum bicolor var. caffrorum;
Sorghum caffrorum;
Sorghum cernuum;
Sorghum dochna;
Sorghum dochna var. technicum;
Sorghum drummondii;
Sorghum durra;
Sorghum saccharatum ;
Sorghum subglabrescens;
Sorghum vulgare;
Sorghum vulgare var. caffrorum;
Sorghum vulgare var. durr;
Sorghum vulgare var. roxburghii;
Sorghum vulgare var. saccharatum;
Sorghum vulgare var. technicum (5).
References:
- Animal Feed Resources Information System (AFRIS). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Sorghum bicolor" www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/afris/data/314.htm (Accessed May 18,2006).
- Carter, P.R.; Hicks, D.R.; Oplinger, E.S.; Doll, J.D.; Bundy, L.G.; Schuler, R.T.; and Holmes, B.J. 1989. "Grain Sorghum (Milo)." Alternative Field Crops Manual. www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/sorghum.html, (Accessed May 18,2006).
- Crop Plant Resources. August 24, 2000. "Sorghum: Sorghum bicolor." http://darwin.nmsu.edu/~molbio/plant/sorghum.html. (Accessed May 18,2006).
- FAOSTAT data, 2005
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). 2006. Retrieved May 18, 2006, from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, www.itis.usda.gov
- Maunder, B. 2006. "SORGHUM: The Global Grain of the Future", from National Sorghum Producers. 2006. What is Sorghum? www.sorghumgrowers.com/Sorghum+101, (Accessed May 18,2006).
- National Sorghum Producers. 2006. What is Sorghum? www.sorghumgrowers.com/Sorghum+101, (Accessed May 18,2006).
- US Grains Council. 2006 "Sorghum" www.grains.org/page.ww?section=Barley%2C+Corn+%26+Sorghum&name=Sorghum. (Accessed May 18,2006).
- USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov). Data compiled from various sources by Mark W. Skinner. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
- Wikipedia contributors (2006). Sorghum. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 18, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum.