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Brian J. Steffenson is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. The scientist's work addresses various subfields including Cell Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their main research topics encompass Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Brian J. Steffenson has contributed to multiple research publications in several venues. Notable frequent publication sources include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant Disease, Crop Science, and Nature Communications.

Collaborations are a significant part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Oadi Matny
  • Brande B. H. Wulff
  • Martin Mascher
  • Ahmad H. Sallam
  • Gary J. Muehlbauer

Some of the recent papers authored by Brian J. Steffenson are:

  • Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • A five-transgene cassette confers broad-spectrum resistance to a fungal rust pathogen in wheat, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Automatic Evaluation of Wheat Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight Using Dual Mask-RCNN Deep Learning Frameworks in Computer Vision, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Aegilops sharonensis genome-assisted identification of stem rust resistance gene Sr62, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The Global Durum Wheat Panel (GDP): An International Platform to Identify and Exchange Beneficial Alleles, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Best Publications

  • A molecular, isozyme and morphological map of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) genome.

    A. Kleinhofs;A. Kilian;M. A. Saghai Maroof;R. M. Biyashev

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

    Raz Avni;Moran Nave;Omer Barad;Kobi Baruch

  • The barley stem rust-resistance gene Rpg1 is a novel disease-resistance gene with homology to receptor kinases

    R. Brueggeman;N. Rostoks;D. Kudrna;A. Kilian

  • Crops that feed the world 4. Barley: a resilient crop? Strengths and weaknesses in the context of food security

    Adrian Clive Newton;Andrew J. Flavell;Timothy S. George;Philip Leat

  • Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.

    Sanu Arora;Burkhard Steuernagel;Kumar Gaurav;Sutha Chandramohan

  • Barley: a translational model for adaptation to climate change

    Ian K. Dawson;Joanne Russell;Wayne Powell;Brian Steffenson

  • Genetics of seedling and adult plant resistance to net blotch (Pyrenophora teres f. teres) and spot blotch (Cochliobolus sativus) in barley

    B. J. Steffenson;P. M. Hayes;A. Kleinhofs

  • Comparative Genome Structure, Secondary Metabolite, and Effector Coding Capacity across Cochliobolus Pathogens

    Bradford J. Condon;Yueqiang Leng;Dongliang Wu;Kathryn E. Bushley

  • Regions of the genome that affect agronomic performance in two-row barley

    N. A. Tinker;D. E. Mather;B. G. Rossnagel;K. J. Kasha

  • Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement.

    Kumar Gaurav;Sanu Arora;Paula Silva;Javier Sánchez-Martín

  • Loss of AvrSr50 by somatic exchange in stem rust leads to virulence for Sr50 resistance in wheat

    Jiapeng Chen;Jiapeng Chen;Narayana M. Upadhyaya;Diana Ortiz;Jana Sperschneider

  • Does function follow form? Principal QTLs for Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance are coincident with QTLs for inflorescence traits and plant height in a doubled-haploid population of barley

    H. Zhu;L. Gilchrist;P. Hayes;A. Kleinhofs

  • Association mapping of spot blotch resistance in wild barley.

    Joy K. Roy;Kevin P. Smith;Gary J. Muehlbauer;Shiaoman Chao

  • Towards map-based cloning of the barley stem rust resistance genes Rpg1 and rpg4 using rice as an intergenomic cloning vehicle.

    A. Kilian;J. Chen;F. Han;B. Steffenson

  • Virulence and Molecular Diversity in Cochliobolus sativus.

    Shaobin Zhong;Brian J. Steffenson

  • Fusarium Species Pathogenic to Barley and Their Associated Mycotoxins.

    B. Salas;Brian J Steffenson;H. H. Casper;B. Tacke

  • Rating Scales for Assessing Infection Responses of Barley Infected with Cochliobolus sativus

    Thomas G. Fetch;Brian J. Steffenson

  • The stem rust resistance gene Rpg5 encodes a protein with nucleotide-binding-site, leucine-rich, and protein kinase domains

    R. Brueggeman;A. Druka;Jayaveeramuthu Nirmala;T. Cavileer

  • Rice-barley synteny and its application to saturation mapping of the barley Rpg1 region

    Andrzej Kilian;David A. Kudrna;Andris Kleinhofs;Masahiro Yano

  • Genetically engineered stem rust resistance in barley using the Rpg1 gene.

    Henriette Horvath;Nils Rostoks;Robert Brueggeman;Brian J Steffenson

  • Analysis of durable resistance to stem rust in barley

    Brian J. Steffenson

  • A walk on the wild side: mining wild wheat and barley collections for rust resistance genes

    Brian J. Steffenson;Pablo Olivera;Joy K. Roy;Yue Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Andris Kleinhofs
Andris Kleinhofs Washington State University
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
Kevin P. Smith
Kevin P. Smith University of Minnesota
Yue Jin
Yue Jin US Department of Agriculture
Patrick M. Hayes
Patrick M. Hayes Oregon State University
Shaobin Zhong
Shaobin Zhong North Dakota State University
Robbie Waugh
Robbie Waugh James Hutton Institute
Melania Figueroa
Melania Figueroa Agriculture and Food
Brande B. H. Wulff
Brande B. H. Wulff King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Carl A. Griffey
Carl A. Griffey Virginia Tech

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