Crop Adaptation Lab

Welcome to the lab website of Geoff Morris

Associate Professor in Crop Quantitative Genomics

Colorado State University | Soil & Crop Sciences

News

• Jacques' paper on West African breeding programs developing genomics resources to improve for sorghum adaptation for smallholders in The Plant Genome

• 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

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

• See People in the lab

• Learn about a Goal-directed Hypothesis-driven (GoHy) scientific method: www.GoHy.org

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