Improved sorghum hybrids with grain mold resistance

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is the fifth most important cereal crop globally after wheat (Triticum aestivum), rice (Oryza sativa), maize (Zea mays) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) with multiple uses as food, feed, fodder and fuel. It has a great potential in the gluten-free food market. Globally it is grown on over 43 million ha predominantly in tropical Africa and India. It is also grown in temperate areas (Americas, Europe and Australia) as a feed crop. In the tropics, sorghum is faced with a hostile environment, where unreliable rainfall, poor soils, pests, diseases and parasitic weeds constantly exert harsh selection pressure. India has the largest area (8.5 million ha) under sorghum and 45% of this area is in rainy season while postrainy season sorghum accounts for the remaining area