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Assaf Distelfeld

Assaf Distelfeld

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
43
Citations
16438
World Ranking
3123
National Ranking
47

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • A NAC Gene Regulating Senescence Improves Grain Protein, Zinc, and Iron Content in Wheat

    Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Tzion Fahima;Ann Blechl

  • The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

    R. H. Ramírez-González;P. Borrill;D. Lang;S. A. Harrington

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.

    Sean Walkowiak;Sean Walkowiak;Liangliang Gao;Cecile Monat;Georg Haberer

  • A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust

    Daolin Fu;Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Ann Blechl

  • Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

    Raz Avni;Moran Nave;Omer Barad;Kobi Baruch

  • Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

    Marco Maccaferri;Marco Maccaferri;Neil S. Harris;Sven O. Twardziok;Raj K. Pasam

  • Regulation of flowering in temperate cereals.

    A Distelfeld;C Li;J Dubcovsky

  • Senescence, nutrient remobilization, and yield in wheat and barley

    Assaf Distelfeld;Raz Avni;Andreas M. Fischer

  • Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family

    Valentina Klymiuk;Elitsur Yaniv;Lin Huang;Lin Huang;Dina Raats;Dina Raats

  • Multiple QTL‐effects of wheat Gpc‐B1 locus on grain protein and micronutrient concentrations

    Assaf Distelfeld;Ismail Cakmak;Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Levent Ozturk

  • High-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) stripe rust resistance gene Yr36 from Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides is closely linked to the grain protein content locus Gpc-B1.

    Cristobal Uauy;Juan Carlos Brevis;Xianming Chen;Imtiaz Khan

  • A high‐density, SNP‐based consensus map of tetraploid wheat as a bridge to integrate durum and bread wheat genomics and breeding

    Marco Maccaferri;Andrea Ricci;Silvio Salvi;Sara Giulia Milner

  • Precise mapping of a locus affecting grain protein content in durum wheat

    S. Olmos;S. Olmos;A. Distelfeld;A. Distelfeld;O. Chicaiza;A. R. Schlatter

  • Physical map of the wheat high-grain protein content gene Gpc-B1 and development of a high-throughput molecular marker.

    Assaf Distelfeld;Cristobal Uauy;Tzion Fahima;Jorge Dubcovsky

  • Regulation of Freezing Tolerance and Flowering in Temperate Cereals: The VRN-1 Connection

    Taniya Dhillon;Stephen P. Pearce;Eric J. Stockinger;Assaf Distelfeld

  • Genetic and Molecular Characterization of the VRN2 Loci in Tetraploid Wheat

    Assaf Distelfeld;Gabriela Tranquilli;Chengxia Li;Liuling Yan

  • Vrn-D4 is a vernalization gene located on the centromeric region of chromosome 5D in hexaploid wheat

    Tetsuya Yoshida;Hidetaka Nishida;Jie Zhu;Jie Zhu;Rebecca Nitcher

  • A Metabolic Gene Cluster in the Wheat W1 and the Barley Cer-cqu Loci Determines β-Diketone Biosynthesis and Glaucousness

    Shelly Hen-Avivi;Orna Savin;Radu C. Racovita;Wing Sham Lee

  • Wheat flowering repressor VRN2 and promoter CO2 compete for interactions with NUCLEAR FACTOR‐Y complexes

    Chengxia Li;Assaf Distelfeld;Alfio Comis;Jorge Dubcovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Tzion Fahima
Tzion Fahima University of Haifa
Cristobal Uauy
Cristobal Uauy John Innes Centre
Zvi Peleg
Zvi Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ming-Cheng Luo
Ming-Cheng Luo University of California, Davis
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak University of California, Davis
Abraham B. Korol
Abraham B. Korol University of Haifa
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Takao Komatsuda
Takao Komatsuda National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Hikmet Budak
Hikmet Budak Montana BioAg

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