“…for further use in breeding programs for the development of new varieties. In sorghum, the high genetic and phenotypic diversity were reported from the landraces collected from India (Elangovan et al, 2009(Elangovan et al, , 2012Vara Prasad and Sridhar, 2019), Ethiopia (Adugna, 2014;Amelework et al, 2015;Derese et al, 2018;Wondimu et al, 2020), Eritrea (Tesfamichael et al, 2014), and Sudan (Abdelhalim et al, 2021). These landraces are the indispensable sources of genetic variation that can be utilized by plant breeders in the development of improved varieties with higher productivity, nutrients, grain mold tolerance, and climate resilience (Dwivedi et al, 2016;Godwin et al, 2019).…”