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Future food security is one of the key global challenges facing society. Climate change presents significant threats to our ability to produce staple food crops – particularly in regions already vulnerable to droughts. Dr Kahiu Ngugi and his research team from the University of Nairobi and other institutions in Kenya investigated numerous varieties of sorghum – one of the world’s most important cereal crops. Their aim was to find new genes that would allow the crop to withstand both drought and a common parasitic weed.
Original Article Reference
This SciPod is a summary of the papers ‘Novel sources of drought tolerance from landraces and wild sorghum relatives’, in Crop Science, doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20300, and ‘Genotypic Variation in Cultivated and Wild Sorghum Genotypes in Response to Striga hermonthica Infestation’, in Frontiers in Plant Science, doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.671984.
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