Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

Sorghum is a hot-climate drought-resistant crop used for human and animal consumption. It was domesticated in eastern Africa at least as early as the 4th millennium BCE before spreading throughout the African and the Asian continents in the following millennia and diversifying into five main landraces. Most of the early archaeobotanical evidence in Arabia has now been called into question and sorghum might in fact only date back to Classical and Islamic medieval periods.