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Saudi Arabia
2026

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Genetics

D-Index
83
Citations
37954
World Ranking
1397
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Jesse Poland is affiliated with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their work is particularly focused on subfields including Plant Science, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, notably Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jesse Poland include:

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding, 2020, Nature
  • Two gap-free reference genomes and a global view of the centromere architecture in rice, 2021, Molecular Plant
  • Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Chromosome-scale genome assembly provides insights into rye biology, evolution and agronomic potential, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Breeder friendly phenotyping, 2020, Plant Science

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as Ravi P. Singh, Sandesh Shrestha, Jean-Luc Jannink, Kauê de Sousa, and Carlo Fadda, with whom they have partnered on numerous publications.

Jesse Poland's output is distributed across several notable publication venues including Harvard Dataverse, Frontiers in Plant Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Plant Genome, and Theoretical and Applied Genetics. These outlets reflect the breadth of research activities and the multidisciplinary nature of their scientific inquiry.

Best Publications

  • A Robust, Simple Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) Approach for High Diversity Species

    Robert J. Elshire;Jeffrey C. Glaubitz;Qi-ying Sun;Jesse A. Poland

  • 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 chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Jane Rogers;Jaroslav Doležel

  • Development of High-Density Genetic Maps for Barley and Wheat Using a Novel Two-Enzyme Genotyping-by-Sequencing Approach

    Jesse A. Poland;Jesse A. Poland;Patrick J. Brown;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean Luc Jannink;Jean Luc Jannink

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

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

  • A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

    Martin Mascher;Heidrun Gundlach;Axel Himmelbach;Sebastian Beier

  • Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Plant Breeding and Genetics

    Jesse A. Poland;Trevor W. Rife

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.

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

  • Shades of gray: the world of quantitative disease resistance.

    Jesse A. Poland;Peter J. Balint-Kurti;Randall J. Wisser;Randall J. Wisser;Richard C. Pratt

  • Genomic Selection in Wheat Breeding using Genotyping-by-Sequencing

    Jesse A. Poland;Jeffrey Endelman;Julie Dawson;Jessica Rutkoski

  • Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

    Jer Ming Chia;Chi Song;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Denise Costich;Denise Costich

  • Genome-wide nested association mapping of quantitative resistance to northern leaf blight in maize

    Jesse A. Poland;Peter J. Bradbury;Edward S. Buckler;Rebecca J. Nelson

  • Canopy temperature and vegetation indices from high-throughput phenotyping improve accuracy of pedigree and genomic selection for grain yield in wheat

    Jessica Rutkoski;Jessica Rutkoski;Jesse Poland;Suchismita Mondal;Enrique Autrique

  • Training set optimization under population structure in genomic selection.

    Julio Isidro;Jean‑Luc Jannink;Deniz Akdemir;Jesse Poland

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

    Sanu Arora;Burkhard Steuernagel;Kumar Gaurav;Sutha Chandramohan

  • Increased prediction accuracy in wheat breeding trials using a marker × environment interaction genomic selection model.

    Marco Lopez-Cruz;Jose Crossa;David Bonnett;Susanne Dreisigacker

  • A maize resistance gene functions against bacterial streak disease in rice

    Bingyu Zhao;Xinghua Lin;Jesse Poland;Harold Trick

  • Anchoring and ordering NGS contig assemblies by population sequencing (POPSEQ)

    Martin Mascher;Gary J. Muehlbauer;Daniel S. Rokhsar;Daniel S. Rokhsar;Jarrod Chapman

  • A whole-genome shotgun approach for assembling and anchoring the hexaploid bread wheat genome

    Jarrod A Chapman;Martin Mascher;Aydın Buluç;Kerrie Barry

  • Two gap-free reference genomes and a global view of the centromere architecture in rice.

    Jia-Ming Song;Jia-Ming Song;Wen-Zhao Xie;Shuo Wang;Yi-Xiong Guo

  • Application of unmanned aerial systems for high throughput phenotyping of large wheat breeding nurseries

    Atena Haghighattalab;Lorena González Pérez;Suchismita Mondal;Daljit Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
José Crossa
José Crossa International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Susanne Dreisigacker
Susanne Dreisigacker International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Mark E. Sorrells
Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University
Suchismita Mondal
Suchismita Mondal Montana State University
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Jean-Luc Jannink
Jean-Luc Jannink Agricultural Research Service
Allan K. Fritz
Allan K. Fritz Kansas State University
Martin Mascher
Martin Mascher Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Julio Huerta-Espino
Julio Huerta-Espino International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

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