Abstract: Lodging occurs when plants do not stand upright, leading to yield loss when the combine fails to harvest the grain from the lodged plants. Lodging in crops is a complex problem because it is influenced by a large number of environmental factors and there are several different types of lodging.? Plant height, straw strength and level of fertility influence lodging. Typically, shorter varieties are more resistant to lodging, but strength of the straw allows many taller varieties to stand well.Lodging tends to be more severe at high nitrogen levels. It was necessary to collect quantitative information on the plant morphology and genetic studied. The aim of this work was to introduce the progress on how to identify specific and easily measurable plant traits that contribute to lodging resistance and that may permit the evaluation of individual plants grown under conditions not necessarily conducive to lodging.