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Satellite image of circular crop fields in Haskell County, Kansas, in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops of corn and sorghum are green (sorghum may be slightly paler). Wheat is brilliant gold. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or have lain in fallow for the year.
Sorghum (/ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ ə m /) or broomcorn is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the grass family . Sorghum bicolor is grown as a cereal for human consumption and as animal fodder .
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum [2] (/ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ ə m /) and also known as great millet, [3] broomcorn, [4] guinea corn, [5] durra, [6] imphee, [7] jowar, [8] or milo, [9] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, while the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...
Sorghum field in Germany. Peronosclerospora sorghi has a broad host range, particularly plants in the sorghum family. These host plants include Sorghum bicolor, or sorghum, Sorghum sudanense, or Sudan grass, and Sorghum halepense, or Johnsongrass. Its hosts also include Pinnisetum glaucum, or pearl millet, and Zea mays, or maize.
With Sorghum bicolor it is a parent of Sorghum × almum, a forage crop also considered a weed in places. [7] It is named after an Alabama plantation owner, Colonel William Johnson, who sowed its seeds on river-bottom farm land circa 1840. The plant was already established in several US states a decade earlier, having been introduced as a ...
Sporisorium sorghi, commonly known as sorghum smut, [1] is a plant pathogen that belongs to the Ustilaginaceae family. This fungus is the causative agent of covered kernel smut disease and infects sorghum plants all around the world such as Sorghum bicolor (S. vulgare) (sorghum), S. sudanense (Sudan grass), S. halepense (Johnson grass) and Sorghum vulgare var. technichum (). [2]
Fields of Gold" is a 2011 fantasy novelette by Rachel Swirsky. It was first published in the Jonathan Strahan -edited anthology "Eclipse Four", [ 1 ] and was reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2012 .
The Arabs transformed agriculture during the Islamic Golden Age by spreading major crops and techniques such as irrigation across the Old World.. The Arab Agricultural Revolution [a] was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries).