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101 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress great importance for the area of short rainfall. Radiation can cause changes in seed size and seed color. In this research, gamma radiation induced some promising mutant traits for bioethanol production.Thesemutants can be utilized in the breeding programme for elite varieties of sorghum. It still needs to do more research on locally adapted cultivar Sorghum Shweni-15) with the aim of bioethanol production through Gamma radiation Acknowledgement The author would like to thank to the honorable Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, for allowing her to do this research. Deeply thanks to her parents for their love, understanding, and continuous support. Sincere thanks are to teachers and colleagues from the Department of Biotechnology for their advices. References Zidenga, T.2004. DNA-based Methods in Sorghum Diversity Studies and Improvement. ISB News Report. U Hla Kyaw: Myanmar country assessments on Biofuel and Renewable Energy. Department of Agriculture and Planning Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. March, (2009). IAEA: Manual on mutation breeding. Tech. Rep. Ser. No. 119. Sec. Ed. Joint FAO / IAEA Div. of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture. 287 pp. ISBN 92-0-115077-6. (1997). Tesso TT, Claflin LE, Tuinstra MR (2005). Analysis of Stalk Rot Resistance and Genetic Diversity among Drought Tolerant Sorghum Genotypes. Crop Sci. 45: 645-652. Almodares A, Hadi MR, Dosti B (2007a). Effects of Salt Stress on Germination Percentage and Seedling Growth in Sweet Sorghum Cultivars. J. Biol. Sci. 7: 1492-1495. Belum VS Reddy et al., Sweet Sorghum as a bioenergy crop, International Crop Institute for the Semi.Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) 502-324, Andhra Pradesh, India. Carla E. Shoemarker and David I. Bransby: The Role of Sorghum as a bioenergy feedstock. Department of Agronomy and Soils, 202 Funches Hall, AuburnUniversity, AI 36849, USA. VANHARTEN, A.M. (1998). Mutation Breeding: Theory and Practical Applications. Cambridge University Press. 353 p. ISPN 0521470749. Camargo, C.E.D.O., Neto, A. T., Filho, A. W.P. F. and Felico, J. C., 2000, Genetic control of aluminium tolerance in mutant lines of the wheat cultivar Anahuac. Euphy., 114: 47-53. Thapa, C. B., 2004, Effect of acute exposure of gamma rays on seed germination and seedling growth of Pinus kesiya Gord and P. Wallichiana A. B. Jacks. Our Nature, 2: 13-17. Konzak, C.F., Nilan, R.A. Heiner, R.E. Control of factors affecting the repose of plants tomutagens, 14 th Brookhaven Symp. Biol., 128-57 (1961).