Whereas in the present study ethanol yield of 0.48 g g1 sugar
is obtained with Keller and CFTR 01 strains of S. Cerevisiae. In
another study by Sipos et al. [2] where the stems were
extracted for juice along with leaves, the ethanol production
was from 0.42 to 0.45 g g1 of sugar and it is comparable to the
ethanol production in this present study. It was also reported
that the sweet sorghum juice had sufficient amount of nutrients for cell growth and ethanol fermentation [18].