Sorghum is a genus of herbaceous plants in the Poaceae (grass) family that contains roughly twenty species of plants that thrive in temperate and tropical regions. Many are raised for forage or as food for humans, such as grains. The color of sorghum grains ranges from white and light yellow to dark red, purple, and brown, as well as from white to bronze and brown. One of the four most significant cereal grains humans consume is grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench). While considered a native of tropical Africa, sorghum is a popular cereal grain across most of the continent. India is now a major source of it.
