{"id":9058,"date":"2016-11-10T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2016-11-10T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:47:02","slug":"enhancing-sorghums-drought-resiliency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/enhancing-sorghums-drought-resiliency\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing sorghum&#8217;s drought resiliency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd wrote an interesting story in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> this week about research underway at the University of Georgia to find a more drought-resistant strain of sorghum, which already does well in dry conditions. \u00a0She reports:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When University of Georgia plant geneticist Andrew Paterson started to look for lines of sorghum that might survive in some of the most parched places in the world, he didn\u2019t plant trials in the desert. He started out by researching which plants could survive a winter in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t see a lot of correlation between surviving cold and surviving drought,\u201d Paterson said. \u00a0But when sorghum that could withstand a Georgia winter was planted half a world away, the results were stunning: 48 percent survived eight months without rain in the north African nation of Mali.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Paterson&#8217;s research <a href=\"https:\/\/When University of Georgia plant geneticist Andrew Paterson started to look for lines of sorghum that might survive in some of the most parched places in the world, he didn\u2019t plant trials in the desert.  He started out by researching which plants could survive a winter in Georgia.  \u201cWe don\u2019t see a lot of correlation between surviving cold and surviving drought,\u201d Paterson said.  But when sorghum that could withstand a Georgia winter was planted half a world away, the results were stunning: 48 percent survived eight months without rain in the north African nation of Mali.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4639\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/sorghum-field-usda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4639\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/sorghum-field-usda-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA NRCS via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/sorghum-field-usda-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/sorghum-field-usda-193x138.jpg 193w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/sorghum-field-usda.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA NRCS via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd wrote an interesting story in Growing Georgia this week about research underway at the University of Georgia to find a more drought-resistant strain of sorghum, which already does well in dry conditions. \u00a0She reports: &#8220;When University of Georgia plant geneticist Andrew Paterson started to look for lines of sorghum that might survive in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}