Sorghum Breeding Project Planned for Haiti
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in mid-November awarded Kansas State University $1.08 million to establish a genomics-assisted sorghum breeding program in Haiti. The funding, led by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet, will be used to develop three subprojects aimed at building the foundation of a breeding program that will tackle some of Haiti’s greatest constraints in sorghum production. “This project is novel and exciting as it begins to assess our abilities to more surgically adapt and develop new sorghum varieties for Haiti,” said Tim Dalton, lab director.
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