A research team led by The University of Queensland is on track to solve a major problem for Australian farmers using targeted breeding to improve yields for sorghum crops.
A research team led by The University of Queensland is on track to solve a major problem for Australian farmers using targeted breeding to improve yields for sorghum crops.
The work is part of a five-year $12 million research investment collaboration with industry and government to reduce sorghum lodging.
Professor Andrew Borrell from the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation said sorghum lodging occurs when the plant doesn’t have enough water and costs growers an average $12 million a year in yield.
“Lodging is where the stem breaks just before harvest, usually as a result of drought that occurs during grain filling,” Professor Borrell said.
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Professor David Jordan, Dr Geetika Geetika and Professor Andrew Borrell investigate a sorghum crop. (Photo Credit: Queensland Alliance for Agrculture and Food Innovation)
