Burning questions
Experiments on the effects of charring on domestic and wild sorghum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13095375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alemseged Beldados (0000-0002-2057-3602, Addis Ababa University), Abel Ruiz-Giralt (0000-0002-8472-043X, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Pages | 104170-104170 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Archaeological Science Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-409X • E-ISSN: 2352-4103 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104170 |
| OpenAlex | W4385748564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 60 |
Sorghum was first domesticated approximately 6000 years ago in the eastern Sahel region of Africa, but our understanding of its agricultural history is uneven due to the paucity of the available archaeobotanical evidence. Despite growing interest in the issue, sorghum response to fire exposure has been little investigated. In this paper, the resistance of six domesticated sorghum varieties (Sorghum bicolor) and one wild specimen (Sorghum arundinaceum) to charring was evaluated under oxidising and reduced oxygen conditions using temperatures ranging from 300 °C to 500 °C for 1–8 h. The experimental study in this work indicates that the maximum temperature wild sorghum can resist without severe distortion is around 300 °C, whereas domesticated varieties could resist up to 350 °C before becoming damaged beyond identification. Our findings suggest that resistance to temperature might represent an important bias for sorghum seed preservation, both in its wild and domesticated forms
Agriculture · Agronomy · Biology · Charring · Composite material · Crop · Domestication · Resistance (ecology · Sorghum · Sorghum bicolor · Sweet sorghum · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Bioenergy crop production and management · Materials Science · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |