Sorghum Essays

  • Sweet Sorghum

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    Introduction Sweet sorghum is an annual C4 plant having high concentration of sugars in stalks and can be used as a biofuel crop (Rooney et al., 2007). It can be grown successfully in semi-arid regions and known as the sugarcane of the desert. This plant can produce 45-65 t/ha stalk yield and 3-7 t/ha sugar yield in short duration with less water requirement like rain fed crops (Rao et al., 2013). Improvement in stalk yield and sugar accumulation is the major concern of sweet sorghum production. Differences

  • Red Sorghum Analysis

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    The Difference of color use of red in “Red Sorghum” and “Raise the Red Lantern” There are numerous uses of red in "Red Sorghum" and " Raise the Red Lantern " to express the emotion or characteristics of the objects which related to the theme, but both effects seem different, that the red used in the "Red Sorghum" brings a full of excitement, while the other gives the audience a sense of chill. This difference stems from the association of the red itself, and applied to what things and the characteristics

  • Red Sorghum Comparison

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    finish watching Red Sorghum (Hong Gao Liang), this song in the film keeps haunting me. Red Sorghum is an emotionally powerful film. It is beautiful, romantic, as well as barbaric, and violent. As Zhang Yimou's directorial debut, Red Sorghum, released in 1987, with its lush and lusty portrayal of Chinese peasant life and culture, immediately put Zhang at the forefront of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers. The film is an adaptation of Nobel laureate Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum Wine" from his

  • Sorghum Project Essay

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    called sorghum. Sorghum is a food which is consumed through wet cooking process or baked into bread. The problem with sorghum is it lack nutrients the populations need such as iron, vitamins, zinc, and lysine and it is also difficult for them to ingest (Mastandrea, A., 2009). This food does not help the population with nourishment because of the lack of nutrients it has. The Africa Biofortified Sorghum Project Consortium is a project which is trying to improve the nutritional value of sorghum to have

  • Sweet Sorghum: Annotated Bibliography

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    Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the fifth most important cereal crop grown in the world used as human and animal food, feedstock for energy production, fodder, and production of starch and starch derivatives (Doggett 1988; Bogunjoko 1992; Taylor et al. 2006; Rao et al. 2009; Sriroth et al. 2012; Proietti et al. 2015). In Brazil, sorghum is used primarily for animal feed production, and secondarily as forages, such as silage, grazing, and hay (Tabosa et al. 1993; Dykes et al. 2005; Rooney

  • Symbolism Of 'Red In The Film Red Sorghum'

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    Red Sorghum For most people who have watched the film, Red Sorghum, the strongest impression that appears in their mind must be the color red. This is not only because of the red sedan chair, the red sorghum wine, and the red blood but also the thick atmosphere that the red hue creates. In this movie, color plays a pivotal role in leading audience’s emotion because the red color has different meanings under different plots; it evokes happiness in the marriage, passion in people's lives, and national

  • Emerald Agricultural College: A Crop Production Plan For Sorghum

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    Plan will be on Sorghum. Sorghum has many different varieties but for this crop production plan I have chosen two to plant, I will be planting 40 acres of Venture as a dryland crop and 40 acres Liberty as an irrigated crop. After these crops have been harvested I can then decide to increase the number of acres if the crops succeed. Aims and goals The aim of the sorghum crop production plan is to provide sorghum for animal consumption. According to the website grain pro sorghum is wanted in the

  • Gluten Free Beer Research Paper

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    groundbreakerbrewing.com/ RedBridge RedBridge is made with sorghum to make it gluten-free. It’s a smoother lighter taste, slightly sweet, and without a strong, hoppy

  • Table Tortillas: A Narrative Analysis

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    Before being used as food, sorghum grain generally undergoes abrasive decortication, also known as dehulling or pearling (Taylor & Dewar, 2001). The bran fraction is easily separated by abrasive decortication (Awika et al., 2004), a process aimed towards the gradual removal by friction

  • How Does Climate Change Affect Food Security?

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    relies on crop harvests would experience adverse impacts (IPCC, 2014). Srivastava et al., (2010) analyzed impacts of climate change on sorghum in India using the InfoCrop-SORGHUM simulation model. A changing climate was projected to reduce monsoon sorghum grain yield by 2 per cent to 14per cent by 2020, and yields will worse by 2050 and 2080. Impacts on winter sorghum are projected to reduce yields up to 7per cent by 2020, up to 11per cent by 2050 and up to 32 per cent by 2080. A dynamic vegetation

  • Lactose Intolerance Research Paper

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    This assignment is centered around current hot nutrition topics in the area of carbohydrates in the diet. You must THOROUGHLY answer these questions, and spell and grammar check before submitting. Remember that your assignment will be run through plagiarism detection software. 1. (4pts) Lactose Intolerance: Explain what is meant by lactose intolerance. What is happening physiologically? What are the unpleasant side effects that occur if you consume dairy when you have lactose intolerance

  • Ethiopia Research Paper

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    maize, sorghum and barley. They are the core of Ethiopia’s agriculture and food economy. Teff: is native to Ethiopia and are available in three variations: white, brown and red. The dough is made from a nutty-tasting grain is brewed up to three days before baking. Wheat: is a type of crop, that is a universal staple food. This wheat comes from a form of grass known as triticum that is grown all around the world. Maize: is basically corn that originates from central America. Sorghum: a cereal

  • Duckweed Growth Experiment

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    nitrogen concentrations and were left for 58 days (Zhaoa, Reddya, Gopal, Reddyb, “Nitrogen deficiency effects on plant growth, leaf photosynthesis, and hyperspectral reflectance properties of sorghum”). They found, as a result, that the higher the nitrogen concentration the more growth in the plant sorghum. Nitrogen has been found to be a limiting factor when referring to plant growth and algae in marine waters (Ryther, Dunstan, “Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Eutrophication in the Coastal Marine Environment”)

  • Pheasant Hunting: A Narrative Fiction

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    is the safety it should only be off if you are aimed at ur target and want to pull the trigger.” Alex looked at him with determine. They started walking out in the field. Alex shouted out through the chest high sorghum, “ Where do I walk.” Chuck chuckled, “ Walk through the sorghum in a zig zag to cover the most area. Make sure

  • How Did Geography Affect The Development Of The Ancient West African Kingdoms Of West Africa?

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    which is particularly vital since the land is exceptionally dry and the atmosphere is very hot. As Ghana is semi-arid it is vital that the community can cultivate crops that will give satisfactory sustenance. There are three sorts of grains; millet, sorghum, and

  • 'Realism In Cather's O Pioneers'

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    Lastly, Cather also incorporates some realism into her story. Although hard to spot, her realism and romantic segments combine. In the previous quote, “Alexandra watched the shimmering pool dreamily, but eventually her eyes went back to the sorghum patch south of the barn, where she was planning to make her new pig corral,” although romantic, it also has realistic qualities because she came back from her daydreaming and began to focus on the task at hand. Another quote, from Carl’s point of

  • Ghan The Development And Decline Of Mali Kingdom

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    power as it was “(...) the largest empire in the history of and one of the largest land-based empires in history.” (Falola and Stapleton, 90) The Songhai Empire was similar to its predecessor in that it also engaged in agriculture trades involving sorghum, pearl millet, and salt and raw materials such as gold. (Walshaw, Lecture 5, Slide 24) However, the empire actively engaged in the slave trade, using slaves for labor in Niger to meet their agricultural needs and exporting them to North Africa. (Falola

  • Farm Bill Thesis

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    products begin as a grain crop and in a main contributor to the obesity problem. The roughly 66% of the country considered obese have stores filled with candy, soda, and and other "sinful sweets". They are made from seven crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, milk, and meat) that are receiving way too much of the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated for the farm bill. The easier and cheaper it is to produce and sell this crop, the more health insurance increases with obesity. This is rather contradicting

  • Practical Activity Outline

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    Practical Activity Outline: Predicting the Effect of pH on the Activity of Amylase Arlecia Johnson Enzyme to use: Amylase is the easiest enzyme to find, it is in your saliva! Source: Saliva Animal: Human being The substrate: Starch, because amylases action starch and starch is also very easy to find in carbohydrate foods. Method and type of treatment A. Position a drop of solutions of iodine in test tubes (each with one drop) and place them in a row, in a test-tube rack. B. Place

  • How Does Huxley Use Genetic Modification In Brave New World

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    Modern practices are scarily becoming the fiction that many made up according to their own thoughts. Brave New World compiled Aldous Huxley’s ideas on the future of relationships between people. His thoughts included that babies would be created in labs and people would have no significant others, mothers, or fathers. Everyone was allowed to have sexual relations with everyone. In the text, children were told what was good and bad and were even told exactly what they should think. Many of his thoughts