Sorghum breeding plots at Ashland Bottoms, Manhattan KS

 Sorghum Translational Genomics Program 
Mining genomic diversity for sorghum improvement

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About STGP

What it is

The STGP is a research program initiated by researchers in the departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy at Kansas State University. Initially funded from a competitive grant from K-State's Targeted Excellence competition, we began operation on July 1, 2007.

What we aim to do

Our goals are ambitious: the deep genomic characterization of a small panel of diverse sorghum accessions, followed by a broader but still intensive genetic screen of a larger panel; trait evaluation of the diversity panel and a series of crosses derived from representative sorghums; and association and nested association mapping of quantitative-trait loci (QTLs) governing sorghum traits.

What will come out of it

The germplasm and genomic, genetic, and phenotypic data, and our research results and tools will be made available as public resources through this site.