Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food - Fodder - Feed - Fuel for a Rapidly Changing World (PDF)

legumes in central arid zone Research Institute (CAZRI) Jodhpur. His major accomplishment includes the identification of sources of clusterbean and moth beans with improved drought tolerance. He is with Indian institute of millets research since 2006 and is working on drought tolerance in sorghum and Finger millet. He has deciphered the principal components of postflowering drought and the mechanism with which staygreen trait improves resilience to Rabi Sorghum in moisture receding environment. He has to his credit 86 publications of various categories which include 72 pear reviewed research papers in national and international journals and co-edited 3 books.


Ashok Kumar Are is Principal Scientist and Product Placement Lead -Asia at International Crops Research Institute for the Semiarid Tropics (ICRISAT), India (www.icrisat.org). He has 20 years of research experience in the area of genetics, plant breeding and provided vision and operational plans for improved products development in various crops. Since 2006, his major focus is on modernizing the breeding programs to enhance breeding efficiency for higher genetic gain and development of demand-led improved products in sorghum for various end-uses- food, feed, fodder and fuel. Besides improving sorghum for food and forage, he led the projects on genetic diversification of hybrid parents for rainy and postrainy season ^40 international partnerships in various projects and provided international consultancies to FAO and IAEA. He is currently guiding two Ph D students.




B. Venkatesh Bhat is Principal scientist (Genetics & Cytogenetics) at ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad. Dr Bhat started his career as a scientist at the Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi where he conducted research on genetic improvement of forage sorghum, range grasses and forage legumes for a decade and subsequently moved to ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad. He has two years' post-doctoral research experience on biotechnological approaches for sorghum improvement at ICRISAT, Patancheru, He has 25 years of research experience in genetic improvement of sorghum, millets and fodder crops. His areas of research experience are forage sorghum improvement for yield and quality, sweet sorghum feed stock development, research on apomixis for fixing hybrid vigour in crops, tissue culture, genetic transformation and molecular breeding in sorghum. He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed research articles, 16 book chapters and co-edited five books.


Dr. Reddy obtained his graduation and post-graduation certificate in the discipline of Plant Pathology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. Worked as Plant Pathologist at ICRISAT, subsequently worked as Senior Scientist (Technology Exchange) shifted his focus on to agriculture development projects entrusted with project development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the projects on enhancing production of food, fodder and fuel in South East Asian countries. After retirement in 2015 form ICRISAT worked as Director, at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and presently working as Director (quality control) at Patanjali Bio Research Institute, Haridwar, India. Dr. Reddy has published more than 25 research articles and 12 books and bulletins.


Timothy J. Dalton is a Professor of International Agricultural Development in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas USA. With over 25 years of experience in ex-post and ex-ante assessment of new agricultural technologies in Africa, Asia and the United States, he studies how new varieties of sorghum, rice, and maize affect food productivity, production risk management, and nutrition, as well as the impact of natural resource degradation-primarily soils and agricultural biodiversity-on agriculture and human well-being. He received a B.A. for Columbia University, M.S. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is the author or co-author on over 50 peer-reviewed publications and has received more than US$37 million in competitive research funding from state, Federal, industry and foundation sources.