Crop Adaptation Lab

Welcome to the lab website of Geoff Morris

Colorado State University | Soil & Crop Sciences

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We're hiring! Are you passionate about global food security and have expertise in large-scale genomic analyses on high-performance computing environments and knowledge of molecular evolutionary theory? Consider applying for a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Crop Adaptation Lab!
Release of qrlabelr R package: Easy and flexible way to get plot labels that are human and machine readable, available from CRAN
Parallel tuning of plant height via differential splicing Brachytic1 in smallholder sorghum and commercial maize, in New Phytologist
Genomic and phenomic-enabled breeding of chilling tolerance, including an practical primer on population genomics for marker development, in G3

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.

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

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