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Andreas Graner

Andreas Graner

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Genetics
Germany
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
82
Citations
28545
World Ranking
1464
National Ranking
110

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences

Overview

Andreas Graner is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The subfields of their work include Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas such as Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies, Plant Pathogens and Resistance Mechanisms, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agricultural Pest Management Studies, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andreas Graner include:

  • Kerstin Neumann
  • Benjamin Kilian
  • Hakan Özkan
  • Saleh Alseekh
  • Alisdair R. Fernie

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Current Protocols

Some of the recent papers authored by Andreas Graner include:

  • Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age (2021, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Introducing Beneficial Alleles from Plant Genetic Resources into the Wheat Germplasm (2021, Biology)
  • The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems (2021, The Plant Journal)
  • Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Genetic diversity, distribution and domestication history of the neglected GGAtAt genepool of wheat (2021, Theoretical and Applied Genetics)

In 2001, Andreas Graner was recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for contributions in Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Exploiting EST databases for the development and characterization of gene-derived SSR-markers in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

    Thiel T;Michalek W;Varshney Rk;Graner A

  • Genic microsatellite markers in plants: features and applications

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Andreas Graner;Mark E. Sorrells

  • A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome

    Klaus F.X. Mayer;Robbie Waugh;Peter Langridge;Timothy J. Close

  • Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Rajeev K. Varshney;Andreas Graner;Mark E. Sorrells

  • Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene

    Takao Komatsuda;Mohammad Pourkheirandish;Congfen He;Perumal Azhaguvel

  • Construction of an RFLP map of barley.

    A Graner;A Jahoor;J Schondelmaier;H Siedler

  • Development and implementation of high-throughput SNP genotyping in barley

    Timothy J Close;Prasanna R Bhat;Prasanna R Bhat;Stefano Lonardi;Yonghui Wu;Yonghui Wu

  • Unlocking the Barley Genome by Chromosomal and Comparative Genomics

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Mihaela Martis;Pete E. Hedley;Hana Simkova

  • In silico analysis on frequency and distribution of microsatellites in ESTs of some cereal species.

    Rajeev K Varshney;Thomas Thiel;Nils Stein;Peter Langridge

  • Rapid reorganization of resistance gene homologues in cereal genomes

    Dario Leister;Joachim Kurth;David A. Laurie;Masahiro Yano

  • Differentially expressed genes between drought-tolerant and drought-sensitive barley genotypes in response to drought stress during the reproductive stage

    Peiguo Guo;Michael Baum;Stefania Grando;Salvatore Ceccarelli

  • Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Rajeev K. Varshney;Abhishek Bohra;Jianming Yu;Andreas Graner

  • Genome-wide association studies for agronomical traits in a world wide spring barley collection.

    Raj K Pasam;Rajiv Sharma;Marcos Malosetti;Fred A van Eeuwijk

  • Interspecific transferability and comparative mapping of barley EST-SSR markers in wheat, rye and rice

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Ralf Sigmund;Andreas Börner;Viktor Korzun

  • Comparative assessment of EST-SSR, EST-SNP and AFLP markers for evaluation of genetic diversity and conservation of genetic resources using wild, cultivated and elite barleys

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Kamel Chabane;Prasad S. Hendre;Ramesh K. Aggarwal

  • Genebank genomics highlights the diversity of a global barley collection

    Sara G Milner;Matthias Jost;Matthias Jost;Shin Taketa;Elena Rey Mazón

  • A high density barley microsatellite consensus map with 775 SSR loci

    R. K. Varshney;R. K. Varshney;T. C. Marcel;L. Ramsay;J. Russell

  • Recent history of artificial outcrossing facilitates whole-genome association mapping in elite inbred crop varieties

    Nils Rostoks;Luke Ramsay;Katrin MacKenzie;Linda Cardle

  • Barley Grain Maturation and Germination: Metabolic Pathway and Regulatory Network Commonalities and Differences Highlighted by New MapMan/PageMan Profiling Tools

    Nese Sreenivasulu;Björn Usadel;Andreas Winter;Volodymyr Radchuk

  • The eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E confers multiallelic recessive Bymovirus resistance in Hordeum vulgare (L.)

    Nils Stein;Dragan Perovic;Jochen Kumlehn;Bettina Pellio

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Rajeev K. Varshney
Rajeev K. Varshney Murdoch University
Benjamin Kilian
Benjamin Kilian Leibniz Association
Uwe Scholz
Uwe Scholz Leibniz Association
Peter Langridge
Peter Langridge University of Adelaide
Andreas Börner
Andreas Börner Leibniz Association
Robbie Waugh
Robbie Waugh James Hutton Institute
Timothy J. Close
Timothy J. Close University of California, Riverside
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
Jochen C. Reif
Jochen C. Reif Leibniz Association

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