New Technique to Unlock Sorghum's Huge Climate Change Potential

Sorghum has attracted the attention of researchers and the industry, who see great potential for the crop in a future of increased climate change, drought, and flooding. However, how sorghum withstands drought and floods remains a mystery.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Carlsberg Laboratory, and the University of Queensland in Australia have developed a technique called ‘FIND-IT' that can efficiently identify new mutations in specific genes within large seed collections, offering hope to unlock sorghum's vast potential. With a newly established large sorghum seed collection, the research team expects crop variants capable of being cultivated effectively in both northern and southern latitudes to be developed in record time.

In a separate scientific article published in the journal Physiologia Plantarum the researchers focus on new breeding techniques and present two new research resources developed through close collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, the Carlsberg Laboratory, and the University of Queensland in Australia.

For more details, read the article in the University of Copenhagen News, learn more about FIND-IT, or download the open-access scientific paper.