Traits for Development of Sustainable Energy Sorghum Biofuel Feedstock Production in Marginal Environments

Overall project goals: • Establish a foundational, systems-level understanding of plant, microbial, and environmental interactions that will lead to translational strategies to enhance growth and sustainability of sorghum through improved genetic and microbial adaptations to water and nutrient limited environments. Specific objectives addressed by this poster: • Phenotypic characterizations of a diverse panel of sorghum genotypes across multiple years to define the most productive lines under drought and low nitrogen conditions. • Associate genotypic and environmental effects with improved sorghum performance using robust statistical approaches.