Recent Publications

• Identification of candidate chromosome region of sbwm1 for soil-borne wheat mosaic virus resistance in wheat, 2020
• Increased prediction accuracy using combined genomic information and physiological traits in a soft wheat panel evaluated in multi-environments, 2020
• Identification of two novel Hessian fly resistance genes H35 and H36 in a hard winter wheat line SD06165, 2020
• The Hessian fly recessive resistance gene H4 mapped to chromosome 1A of the wheat cultivar ‘Java’ using genotyping‐by‐sequencing, 2020
• Genetic dissection of heat-responsive physiological traits to improve adaptation and increase yield potential in soft winter wheat, 2020
• Registration of 'Bobcat' hard red winter wheat, 2020
• Multiplex restriction amplicon sequencing a novel next-generation sequencing-based marker platform for high-throughput genotyping, 2019
• A deletion mutation in TaHRC confers Fhb1 resistance to Fusarium head blight in wheat, 2019

More Publications

Current research projects

• Improving Barley and Wheat Germplasm for Changing Environments
• Development of Abiotic Stress-Resistant Germplasm
• Development of High-Throughput Markers for Genetic Improvement of Wheat for Multiple Traits
• Genetic Improvement of Hard Red Winter Wheat to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

More Projects

Outgoing Links

Our Local USDA Sites:

• Center for Grain and Animal Health Research (CGAHR) - Manhattan, KS, United States Department of Agriculture Research Center
• Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research - Our USDA unit within the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, KS

Other USDA Genotyping Labs:

• Eastern Regional Small Grain Genotyping Lab - Our sister lab in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Northern Regional Small Grain Genotyping Lab - Our sister lab in Fargo, North Dakota
• Western Regional Small Grain Genotyping Lab - Our sister lab in Pullman, Washington State

Wheat Breeding Sites:

• The Triticeae Toolbox - webportal for TCAP data
• USDA Wheat Testing - archived annual hard winter wheat regional nursery data
• TriticeaeGenome - Support for European wheat breeding
• Breeder's Datafarm - wheat genotyping & phenotyping data
• US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) - research, funding, and other information on Fusarium head blight (scab)
• USDA/ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory - Wheat quality ratings and markers.

Wheat Genomics Sites:

• International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium - A group of plant scientists, breeders, and growers dedicated to sequencing the wheat genome

• IWGSC Wheat Genome Browser - Wheat Genome v1.0, Sequence and Annotation
• Ensembl Plants for Triticum aestivum - Ensembl tools for the wheat genome
• Wheat SNPHub Portal - China Agricultural University, Genomic variation datasets of wheat and its progenitors
• Triticeae Gene Tribe (TGT) - China Agricultural University, Connect Emerging Assemblies in Triticeae by Genes
• Genome Variation Map (GVM) - Beijing Institute of Genomics, Genome Variation Map (GVM)
• Wheat Genome Variation Database (WGVD) - China Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, WGVD | Variation Search, Genomic Signature Search, Genome Browser, and Alignment Search Tools (BLAST)
• WheatGmap - China Sichuan Agricultural University, A Genomic Platform for Wheat Gene Mapping and Data Sharing
• Wheat Zapper - A fast and flexible online application to predict orthologous relationships with rice, Brachypodium, and sorghum
• PIECE - A plant gene-structure comparison and evolution database with 25 species; annotated genes have been classified based on the Pfam motif
• European Triticae Genomics Initiative - Platform for the coordination of Triticeae genomics research
• MIPS Wheat Genome Database - Provides access to the wheat UK 454 sequence instance in a multitude of ways
• Phytozome - Tool to facilitate comparative genomic studies among green plants
• WUblast - Allows protein and nucleotide database queries to find regions of sequence similarities quickly with minimal loss of sensitivity
• GenBank at NCBI - annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences and many gene software tools
• SEQanswers - information, forums, and a community for next generation sequencing
• Gramene - a comparative resource for plants
• TGI databases - TGI databases at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Wheat Genotyping Sites:

• MASWheat - laboratory protocols for Marker Assisted Selection in wheat
• PolyMarker - Automated bioinformatics pipeline for SNP assay development for polyploid species
• Genome-Specific Primers in Polyploid Species - A tool to design genome-specific primers for polyploid wheat
• Wheat CoOrdinated Agricultural Project (Wheat CAP) - Providing public information on marker-assisted selection protocols as well as education and outreach resources
• CerealsDB - Provides KASP probes based on SNPs in wheat and access to the wheat 454 draft assemblies
• Triticeae-CAP Homepage - wheat and barley SNPs, genotyping & phenotyping data
• KOMUGI - Integrated database of wheat genomic resources
• Phytopath - Integrates genome-scale data from important plant pathogen species with literature-curated information about the phenotypes of host infection
• URGI - Tools to study genetic and genomic wheat data
• Grain Genes - USDA database for Triticeae and Avena

Wheat Functional Genomics Sites:

• Monogram - A community resource for wheat functional genomics
• Community resource for wheat transformation - Provides capacity for 50 wheat genes to be transformed into wheat, free of charge for scientists within the EU
• Wheat Estimated Transcript Server Tool (WhETS) - A tool to get the best estimates of wheat transcript sequences by combining Triticae ESTsc/mRNAs with rice genes
• Wheat In Situ DB - Information obtained from a high-throughput wheat in situ hybridisation project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Syngenta
• IPK Crop EST Database (CR-EST) - Public access to data from crop EST projects at IPK
• HarvEST - EST database-viewing tools plus
• Triticeae full-length CDS database - Provides full-length CDSs currently available for wheat and barley
• PlantGDB-assembled unique transcripts (PUTs) - PUTs are assembled from plant mRNA sequences available from GenBank (EST, PLN, HTC divisions).