1. Sorghum production for diversified uses / Srinivasa Rao P., Belum V.S. Reddy, N. Nagaraj and Hari D. Upadhyaya -- 2. Sorghum genetic resources : conservation and diversity assessment for enhanced utilization in sorghum improvement / Hari D. Upadhyaya, Shivali Sharma, Sangam L. Dwivedi and Shailesh K. Singh -- 3. Wild sorghums : their potential use in crop improvement / Kamala Venkateswaran, Moses Muraya, S.L. Dwivedi and H.D. Upadhyaya -- 4. Sorghum breeding / Ismail Dweikat -- 5. Sorghum genetic diversity / Moses M. Muraya -- 6. Genetic mapping in sorghum / R. Madhusudhana -- 7. Molecular breeding / C.D. Franks and M.L.M. Mayor -- 8. Genetic mapping of abiotic stress responses in sorghum / Yi-Hong Wang, Gloria B. Burow and John J. Burke -- 9. Understanding genetic control of biotic stress resistance in sorghum for applied breeding / Are Ashok Kumar, Sunita Gorthy, Hari Chand Sharma, Yinghua Huang, Rajan Sharma and Belum V.S. Reddy -- 10. Next-generation sequencing technology for genetics and genomics of sorghum / Hong Luo, Anne Mocoeur and Hai-Chun Jing -- 11. Genetic transformation and breeding / Guoquan Liu, Edward K. Gilding and Ian D. Godwin -- 12. Phenotypic mutant library : potential for gene discovery / Zhanguo Xin, Junping Chen, Gloria Burow and John Burke -- 13. Prospect of sorghum as a biofuel feedstock / Srinivasa Rao P., Walter Zegada-Lizarazu, Danielle Bellmer and Andrea Monti.