James Simmonds

Best Publications

• Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

  Amy Watson;Sreya Ghosh;Matthew J. Williams;William S. Cuddy

  1153
  Citations

• Uncovering hidden variation in polyploid wheat.

  Ksenia V. Krasileva;Ksenia V. Krasileva;Ksenia V. Krasileva;Hans A. Vasquez-Gross;Tyson Howell;Paul Bailey

  590
  Citations

• A genetic framework for grain size and shape variation in wheat.

  Vasilis C. Gegas;Aida Nazari;Simon Griffiths;James Simmonds

  527
  Citations

• Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research.

  Sreya Ghosh;Amy Watson;Oscar E. Gonzalez-Navarro;Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez

  497
  Citations

• Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of ear emergence in elite European winter wheat germplasm

  Simon Griffiths;James Simmonds;Michelle Leverington;Yingkun Wang

  278
  Citations

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

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

  264
  Citations

• A splice acceptor site mutation in TaGW2-A1 increases thousand grain weight in tetraploid and hexaploid wheat through wider and longer grains

  James Simmonds;Peter Scott;Jemima Brinton;Teresa C. Mestre;Teresa C. Mestre

  215
  Citations

• Dissecting gene × environmental effects on wheat yields via QTL and physiological analysis

  John. W. Snape;M. John Foulkes;James Simmonds;Michelle Leverington

  196
  Citations

• Identification and independent validation of a stable yield and thousand grain weight QTL on chromosome 6A of hexaploid wheat ( Triticum aestivum L .)

  James Simmonds;Peter Scott;Michelle Leverington-Waite;Adrian S Turner

  176
  Citations

• Gene editing and mutagenesis reveal inter-cultivar differences and additivity in the contribution of TaGW2 homoeologues to grain size and weight in wheat.

  Wei Wang;James Simmonds;Qianli Pan;Dwight Davidson

  175
  Citations

• Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of crop height in elite European winter wheat germplasm

  Simon Griffiths;James Simmonds;Michelle Leverington;Yingkun Wang

  164
  Citations

• Susceptibility to Fusarium head blight is associated with the Rht-D1b semi-dwarfing allele in wheat

  Srinivasachary;N. Gosman;N. Gosman;A. Steed;J. Simmonds

  146
  Citations

• Increased pericarp cell length underlies a major quantitative trait locus for grain weight in hexaploid wheat.

  Jemima Brinton;James Simmonds;Francesca Minter;Michelle Leverington-Waite

  122
  Citations

• Identification of transcription factors regulating senescence in wheat through gene regulatory network modelling

  Philippa Borrill;Sophie A Harrington;James Simmonds;Cristobal Uauy

  120
  Citations

• Genetic dissection of grain size and grain number trade-offs in CIMMYT wheat germplasm.

  Simon Griffiths;Luzie Wingen;Julian Pietragalla;Guillermo Garcia

  119
  Citations

• A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding.

  Jemima Brinton;Jemima Brinton;Ricardo H Ramirez-Gonzalez;James Simmonds;Luzie Wingen

  103
  Citations

• The Inhibitor of wax 1 locus (Iw1) prevents formation of β‐ and OH‐β‐diketones in wheat cuticular waxes and maps to a sub‐cM interval on chromosome arm 2BS

  Nikolai M. Adamski;Maxwell S. Bush;James Simmonds;Adrian S. Turner

  102
  Citations

• Reduced height (Rht) and photoperiod insensitivity (Ppd) allele associations with establishment and early growth of wheat in contrasting production systems

  M. Addisu;J. W. Snape;J. R. Simmonds;M. J. Gooding

  86
  Citations

• Validation of a 1DL earliness per se (eps) flowering QTL in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)

  Meluleki Zikhali;Michelle Leverington-Waite;Lesley Fish;James Simmonds

  85
  Citations

• Agricultural Selection of Wheat Has Been Shaped by Plant-Microbe Interactions

  Andrzej Tkacz;Andrzej Tkacz;Francesco Pini;Thomas R. Turner;Eloïne Bestion

  67
  Citations