Crop Adaptation Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Geoff Morris
Professor in Crop Quantitative Genomics
Colorado State University
Soil & Crop Sciences | Graduate Degree Program in Ecology | Cell & Molecular Program
News
New NSF project to uncover the fundamental basis of complex traits in crops – EDGE CMT: New methods to elucidate the omnigenic model and other emerging concepts in complex trait genetics
Green Evolution spotlight! Project Director Geoffrey Morris talks about the origin of the 5-year, $10M project to enhance trait delivery and genetic gain in dryland cereals funded by the Gates Foundation.
Globally deployed sorghum aphid resistance gene RMES1 is vulnerable to biotype shifts but is bolstered by RMES2, in Carl's paper in The Plant Genome
Introducing qrlabelr: Fast user-friendly software for machine- and human-readable labels in agricultural research and development, in Alex's paper in Gates Open Research (Software available from CRAN)
A blueprint for optimizing water use of sorghum in the drought prone regions of the US, in Rubi's new study in Frontiers in Plant Science
Precise colocalization of sorghum’s major chilling tolerance locus with Tannin1 due to tight linkage drag rather than antagonistic pleiotropy, in Tony's study in Theoretical & Applied Genetics
Our research & development program
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.
We focus on the most important cereal crops for the world's drylands — sorghum, pearl millet, and wheat. Sorghum is a global food, feed, and biomass crop — a critical climate-resilient crop of drylands worldwide, from smallholder plots in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti to commercial farms in the U.S. Great Plains and beyond.
Team and community
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Learn about a Goal-directed Hypothesis-driven (GoHy) scientific method: www.GoHy.org
Get resources
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