Crop Adaptation Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Geoff Morris
Associate Professor in Crop Quantitative Genomics
Colorado State University | Soil & Crop Sciences
News
News
- Marcus' paper on genetics of plant architecture, a foundation for ideotype breeding, published in The Plant Genome
- Marcus' paper dissecting the genetics of inflorescence morphology in global sorghum published in G3
- Our collaboration with Lasky lab on genomics of the Striga-sorghum arms-race published in PNAS
- Sandeep's paper dissecting chilling tolerance, laying the foundation for drought escape via early planting, published in G3
Our research
Our research
- Our mission is to understand and improve crop adaptation. We use quantitative genomics to dissect and select adaptive traits. We use a goal-directed hypothesis-driven approach integrating evolutionary genetics, crop modeling, and molecular breeding.
- Our focal crop is sorghum—a global food, feed, and biomass crop—and its cultivated and wild relatives. Sorghum is a critical crop of drylands worldwide, from smallholder plots in Sub-Saharan Africa to commercial farms in the U.S. Great Plains.
Team and community
Team and community
- See People in the lab
- Learn about a Goal-directed Hypothesis-driven (GoHy) scientific method: www.GoHy.org
Our projects
Our projects
Current projects:
- G2P Bridge for Water Efficient Crops
- Supported by: Foundation for Food Agriculture Research, Corteva Agriscience, KGSC, KDA
- Co-PIs and partners: Ignacio Ciampitti, Jeff Dahlberg, Sarah Sexton-Bowser, Chad Hayes, Laura Mayor, Charlie Messina
- TERRA partnership - Sorghum Genomics Toolkit
- Supported by: Gates Foundation
- PI: T. Mockler; co-PIs - France: Vincent Vadez, Delphine Luquet, Alain Audebert, Jean Francois Rami, Senegal: Ndiaga Cisse, Ethiopia: Taye Tadesse, US: Jeremy Schmutz
- Implementing genomic selection for a small developing country breeding program (Haiti)
- Supported by: USAID Haiti, SMIL
- Co-PIs: Ed Buckler & Gael Pressoir
- Improving sorghum adaptation in West Africa with genomics-enabled breeding
- Supported by: USAID Feed the Future, Sorghum Millet Innovation Lab
- Co-PIs: Ndiaga Cisse (CERAAS-Senegal); Aissata Mamadou (INRAN-Niger); Daniel Fonceka, JF Rami (CIRAD-France); Falalou Hamidou (ICRISAT-Niger)
- Improved Genomic Mapping and Marker-Assisted Selection for Cold Tolerance in Grain Sorghum
- Supported by: Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission
Past projects:
- TERRA Phenotyping Reference Platform
- Supported by: Department of Energy ARPA-E TERRA
- PI: T. Mockler (Danforth); 15 co-PIs, including: J. Schmutz (JGI/HA), J. White (USDA-ARS), P. Andre-Sanchez (U Arizona)
- Discovery of new genes for enhancing grain and forage quality traits through association mapping in pearl millet
- Supported by: USDA-FAS Borlaug Fellowship
- With: Ram Perumal (KSU), Bass Mbacke (ENSA-Senegal)
- Pearl millet genomics paper
- Using genetic variation in root traits to maximize soil carbon sequestration and biomass yields
- Supported by: USDA-AFRI Sustainable Bioenergy
- PI: M-A De Graaff (PI, Boise St.); Co-PIs: J Jastrow (Argonne); J. Six (ETH)
- Biomass production paper, Root structure and carbon paper
Get resources
Get resources
- Get sorghum GBS SNPs for Sorghum Association Panel, Mini-Core Collection, and World Reference Set (from Morris et al. 2013 PNAS)
- Sorghum, pearl millet, and switchgrass genotyping data at Dryad
- Learn how to do more rewarding and impactful research using a goal-directed hypothesis-driven approach (GoHy). See www.GoHy.org