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Plant Science and Agronomy

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952
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Genetics

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2746
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Overview

Jianming Yu is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences, and engineering. Their publication record spans 85 works in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology; 68 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences; and 61 in Engineering.

Their scientific focus includes genetics, plant science, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering. This multidisciplinary approach supports their main research topics, which cover genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetics and plant breeding, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, biofuel production and bioconversion, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants, and environmental remediation with nanomaterials.

Jianming Yu's recent notable papers are:

  • De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes (2021, Science)
  • Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age (2021, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Status and prospects of genome-wide association studies in plants (2021, The Plant Genome)
  • An integrated framework reinstating the environmental dimension for GWAS and genomic selection in crops (2021, Molecular Plant)
  • Dynamic effects of interacting genes underlying rice flowering-time phenotypic plasticity and global adaptation (2020, Genome Research)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated on multiple publications with Jianming Yu include:

  • Xianran Li
  • Tingting Guo
  • Laura E. Tibbs-Cortes
  • Zimo Lou
  • Zhuowei Cheng

The scientist's work has appeared regularly in the following publication venues:

  • The Plant Genome (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering Journal (5 publications)
  • Molecular Plant (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness

    Jianming Yu;Gael Pressoir;William H Briggs;Irie Vroh Bi

  • Mixed linear model approach adapted for genome-wide association studies.

    Zhiwu Zhang;Elhan Ersoz;Chao-Qiang Lai;Rory J Todhunter

  • The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time

    Edward S. Buckler;Edward S. Buckler;James B. Holland;James B. Holland;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Charlotte B. Acharya

  • Status and Prospects of Association Mapping in Plants

    Chengsong Zhu;Michael Gore;Edward S. Buckler;Jianming Yu

  • Genetic Design and Statistical Power of Nested Association Mapping in Maize

    Jianming Yu;James B. Holland;Michael D. McMullen;Edward S. Buckler

  • Genetic association mapping and genome organization of maize

    Jianming Yu;Edward S Buckler

  • Maize association population: a high-resolution platform for quantitative trait locus dissection.

    Sherry A. Flint-Garcia;Anne-Céline Thuillet;Jianming Yu;Gael Pressoir

  • Prospects for genomewide selection for quantitative traits in maize

    Rex N Bernardo;Jianming Yu

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of lignocellulosic biomass using infrared techniques: A mini-review

    Feng Xu;Jianming Yu;Tesfaye Tesso;Floyd Dowell

  • De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

    Matthew B. Hufford;Arun S. Seetharam;Margaret R. Woodhouse;Kapeel M. Chougule

  • Allelic diversities in rice starch biosynthesis lead to a diverse array of rice eating and cooking qualities

    Zhixi Tian;Qian Qian;Qiaoquan Liu;Meixian Yan

  • Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs

    Lin Li;Steven R. Eichten;Rena Shimizu;Katherine Petsch

  • Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals

    Zhongwei Lin;Xianran Li;Laura M. Shannon;Cheng Ting Yeh

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

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

  • Status and prospects of genome-wide association studies in plants.

    Laura Tibbs Cortes;Zhiwu Zhang;Jianming Yu

  • A deletion mutation in TaHRC confers Fhb1 resistance to Fusarium head blight in wheat

    Zhenqi Su;Amy Bernardo;Bin Tian;Hui Chen

  • Features of sweet sorghum juice and their performance in ethanol fermentation

    Xiaorong Wu;Scott Staggenborg;Johathan L. Propheter;William L. Rooney

  • Genomic prediction contributing to a promising global strategy to turbocharge gene banks

    Xiaoqing Yu;Xianran Li;Tingting Guo;Chengsong Zhu

  • Genomic and environmental determinants and their interplay underlying phenotypic plasticity.

    Xin Li;Tingting Guo;Qi Mu;Xianran Li

  • Presence of tannins in sorghum grains is conditioned by different natural alleles of Tannin1

    Yuye Wu;Xianran Li;Wenwen Xiang;Chengsong Zhu

  • Applications of Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping in Crop Plants

    Elhan S. Ersoz;Jianming Yu;Edward S. Buckler;Edward S. Buckler

Frequent Co-Authors

Guihua Bai
Guihua Bai United States Department of Agriculture
Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Patrick S. Schnable
Patrick S. Schnable Iowa State University
Michael J. Scanlon
Michael J. Scanlon Cornell University
Tesfaye T. Tesso
Tesfaye T. Tesso Kansas State University
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
Mitchell R. Tuinstra
Mitchell R. Tuinstra Purdue University West Lafayette
Marja C.P. Timmermans
Marja C.P. Timmermans University of Tübingen
Ming Li Wang
Ming Li Wang Agricultural Research Service
Nathan M. Springer
Nathan M. Springer University of Minnesota

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