“…Tef’s morphological characteristics including plant height, lengths of the panicle, the peduncle, the internodes (culm length), thickness of the basal internodes, angle of the panicle, tiller number, root characteristics and the relationship of these plant parts with each other are known to influence the degree of lodging in tef (Bayable et al ., 2020; Blösch et al ., 2020; Girma, 2019; Ketema, 1983; Van Delden et al ., 2010), besides environmental conditions and agronomic practices (Ben‐Zeev et al ., 2020; Merchuk‐Ovnat et al ., 2020). The reduction in culm length and increased thickness of the first and second basal internodes are likely factors for the increased lodging resistance observed for the sd‐1 tef lines.…”