Crop Adaptation Lab 

Welcome to the lab website of Geoff Morris

Associate Professor in Crop Quantitative Genomics

Colorado State University | Soil & Crop Sciences

News

• Adapting sorghum for the needs of smallholder families: Clara develops global genomics-enabled breeding strategy for Vitamin-A biofortification in BMC Plant Biology

• New reviews on the history and future West Africa breeding networks for millet (by Safy) and  (by Jacques and Fanna) 

• New review on genotype–environment associations to reveal the molecular basis of environmental adaptation in Plant Cell

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

• See People in the lab

• 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