Crop Adaptation Lab 

Welcome to the Crop Adaptation lab 

Colorado State University, Soil & Crop Sciences 

News

• Uncovering the origins and molecular basis of the evolutionary rescue of sorghum by RMES1 aphid resistance, in Carl's paper in Science Advances

• Revealing the effect of epistasis in wheat breeding and using this knowledge to improve genomic selection

• Finding that key molecular breeding target Tannin1 has lost pleiotropic functions during grass evolution, in Tony's paper in Plant Direct

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. 

Get resources

• Sorghum, pearl millet, and switchgrass genotyping data at Dryad

• Templates and readings on goal-directed hypothesis-driven science www.GoHy.org