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Baoju Yang

     

  • 2013.08~present    Postdoctoral researcher in Jorge Dubcovsky’lab,
  •                                Department of Plant Science, University of California, Davis
  •                   2013     Ph.D in Crop Genetics and Breeding
  •                                College of Agronomy Northwest A&F University, China
  •                                (Joint Ph.D student for 2 years at University of California, Davis, U.S)
  •                   2009    M.S. in Crop Genetics and Breeding
  •                                College of Agronomy Northwest A&F University, China
  •                   2003    B.S. in Agronomy
  •                               College of Agronomy Northwest A&F University, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Plant-pathogen interaction
  • Comparative analysis of interactome of key nodes in non-RD kinase mediated pathway between rice and wheat against the pathogen infection
  • Identification of QTL and mapping resistant genes to rusts and powdery mildew in wheat
  • Identification of genes controlling chromosome stability and develop their applications in wheat breeding

 

  • Li H, Wang C Y, Fu S, Guo X, Yang B J, Chen C H, Zhang H, Wang Y J, Liu X L, Han F P, Ji W Q*. 2014. Development and discrimination of 12 double ditelosomics in tetraploid wheat cultivar DR147. Genome. 57(2):89-95.
  • Cantu D, Yang B J, Ruan R, Li K, Menzo V, Fu D, Chern M, Ronald P C*, Dubcovsky J*. 2013. Comparative analysis of protein-protein interactions in the defense response of rice and wheat. BMC Genomics, 14:166. (Co-first author)
  • Yang B J, Ruan R, Cantu D, Wang X, Ronald P C*, Ji W Q*, Dubcovsky J*. 2013. A comparative approach expands the protein-protein interaction node of the immune receptor XA21 in wheat and rice. Genome, 56(6):315-326.
  • Yang B J, Wang C Y, Xue F, Zhang H, Wang Y J, Liu X L, Ji W Q*. 2013. Chromosome location and SSR markers of a stripe rust resistance gene from wheat (Triticum aestivum) line N9738. Pak. J. Bot. 45(3): 719-724.
  • Zhang H, Yang B J, Wang Y J , Wang C Y, Liu X L, Ji W Q*. 2013. Molecular characterization and expression of a pathogen-induced senescence-associated gene in wheat (Triticum aestivum). Australasian Plant Pathol. 42(1):53-61.
  • Zhang H, Hu Y G, Yang B J, Xue F, Wang C Y, Kang Z S, Ji W Q*. 2013. Isolation and characterization of a wheat IF2 homolog required for innate immunity to stripe rust. Plant Cell Rep. 32(5):591-600.
  • Xue F, Ji W Q*, Wang C Y, Zhang H, Yang B J. 2012. High-density mapping and marker development for the powdery mildew resistance gene PmAS846 derived from wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum var. dicoccoides). Theor. Appl. Genet. 124(8):1549-60.
  • Yang B J, Wang Y J, Ji W Q*. 2009. Genetic diversity of HMW-GS composition in wheat landraces from Middle and Low Yangtze Valleys Winter Wheat Region. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-occidentalis Sinica, 18(2):59~63
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María Alejandra Alvarez

2016 - PhD in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, National University of San Martin, Argentina. Dissertation: Control of flowering time and spike development in wheat: positional cloning of the earliness per se gene Eps-Am1. Advisor: Dr. Jorge Dubcovsky. Co-advisor: Dr. Gabriela Tranquilli.

2008 - Master of Science in Biotechnology, National University of San Martin, Argentina. Dissertation: Assessment of genetic diversity in a cassava in vitro collection using molecular markers

2006 - Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, National University of San Martin, Argentina

 

I'm a HHMI Research Associate currently working on the functional characterization of genes that control the response to photoperiod in wheat using genetics and molecular biology tools, such as mutagenesis, transgenesis, epistatic interaction studies, gene expression analysis, and detailed phenotypic evaluations. For my PhD dissertation, I carried out the positional cloning of a wheat gene that controls heading time and increases the number of spikelets and grains per spike, two major yield components. After identifying the causal gene, I was able to transfer the favorable alleles from einkorn wheat into commercially relevant pasta and bread wheat varieties from the UC Davis and CIMMYT breeding programs and test its effects in field trials. As a postdoctoral scholar, I continued working on the molecular dissection of spike yield components in wheat, studying and deploying genes that modulate grain size, grain number, and biomass accumulation.

Shaw LM*, Li C*, Woods DP*, Alvarez MA*, Lin H, Lau MY, et al. (2020) Epistatic interactions between PHOTOPERIOD1, CONSTANS1 and CONSTANS2 modulate the photoperiodic response in wheat. PLoS Genet 16(7): e1008812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008812

Kippes N, Guedira M, Lin L, Alvarez MA, Brown-Guedira GL, Dubcovsky (2018​) Single nucleotide polymorphisms in a regulatory site of VRN-A1 first intron are associated with differences in vernalization requirement in winter wheat.​ Mol Genet Genomics. 93: 1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-018-1455-0

Alvarez MA, Tranquilli G, Lewis S, Kippes N, Dubcovsky J (2016) Genetic and physical mapping of the earliness per se locus Eps-Am1 in Triticum monococcum identifies EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) as a candidate gene. Funct Integr Genomics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-016-0490-3

Maria A Alvarez, Sabrina M Costa Tartara, Carla M Arizio & Maria M Manifesto. 2014. Identification of cassava clones through molecular. Revista Ciencia y Tecnología de los Cultivos Industriales (ISSN 1853 -7677). Programa Nacional de Cultivos Industriales (Ed.). INTA. Año 4, Nº 6: 39-46

Manifesto MM, Costa Tártara SM, Arizio CM, Alvarez MA & Hompanera NR. 2010. Analysis of the morphological attributes of a sweetpotato collection. Annals of Applied Biology 157(2): 273-281

Manifesto MM, Arizio CM, Costa Tartara SM & Alvarez MA. 2010. Molecular Markers in Germplasm Banks: applications in collections of cassava, sweet potato and quinoa. Análisis de Semillas Nº 14, Vol. 2, Tomo IV

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Zhenzhen Dong

  

  

  

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Kun Li

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TILLING Order Form

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Juan Manuel Debernardi

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André Schönhofen

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Wheat BLAST

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Felix Dubach

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Nicolas Cobo

Ph.D Horticulture and Agronomy
University of California, Davis; 2011 - 2018
Plant Breeding and Genetics

B.S. Agronomy 
Universidad de Talca, Chile; 2005 - 2010

I have a BS in Agronomy where I researched the impact of using shading nets as a method of reducing light stress in blueberries. For my PhD at UC Davis, I am studying genetic resistance  to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using a segregating biparental population. Wheat stripe rust is one of the most devastating wheat diseases and finding new sources of PST resistance is critical to maintain an effective resistance to wheat stripe rust in the future. My work will allow us to develop tightly linked molecular markers to QTL associated to stripe rust, enabling wheat breeders to accelerate the introduction of multiple sources of resistance into their breeding materials.

Cobo, N., H. Wanjugi, E. Lagudah, and J. Dubcovsky. 2018. A High-Resolution Map of Wheat , an Adult Plant Stripe Rust Resistance Locus in the Same Chromosomal Region as Yr29. Plant Genome:1–15.

Cobo, N., L. Pflüger, X. Chen, and J. Dubcovsky. 2018. Mapping QTL for Resistance to New Virulent Races of Wheat Stripe Rust from Two Argentinean Wheat Cultivars. Crop Sci. 58:2470.

GA Lobos, JB Retamales, JF Hancock, JA Flore, N Cobo, and A del Pozo, 2012. Spectral irradiance, gas exchange characteristics and leaf traits of Vaccinium corymbosum L. ‘Elliott’ grown under photo-selective nets. Environmental and Experimental Botany 75:142-149

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