Sorghum Research Offers Wider Look at Conservation

Nadia Shakoor is an assistant member and principal investigator with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in the St. Louis area.

Shakoor specializes in sorghum genetics, and she is working on a long-term project to study how conservation practices perform in sorghum and corn.

She has worked on a variety of national and international research projects relating to sorghum.

The CONSERVE project, short for Conservation of Natural and Sustainable Environmental Resources with Verified Engagement, is a long-term field trial looking at how different conservation practices with sorghum and corn actually perform side by side over time.  Learn more about the impact of this project here.

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