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Plant Science and Agronomy
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2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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91
Citations
45735
World Ranking
256
National Ranking
92

Genetics

D-Index
91
Citations
45655
World Ranking
1023
National Ranking
499

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Doebley is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant portion dedicated to Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The main areas of study for John Doebley include genetics and plant science. Their work covers topics such as Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

John Doebley's publication record includes multiple papers on the genetic architecture and domestication of maize and its wild relative teosinte. Key recent papers include:

  • The genetic architecture of the maize progenitor, teosinte, and how it was altered during maize domestication, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Domestication reshaped the genetic basis of inbreeding depression in a maize landrace compared to its wild relative, teosinte, 2021, PLoS Genetics
  • A conserved genetic architecture among populations of the maize progenitor, teosinte, was radically altered by domestication, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Domestication Reshaped the Genetic Basis of Inbreeding Depression in a Maize Landrace Compared to its Wild Relative, Teosinte, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evidence for Multiple Teosinte Hybrid Zones in Central Mexico, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as PLoS Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors including Qiuyue Chen, Luis Fernando Samayoa, Peter J. Bradbury, Bode A. Olukolu, and M. Cinta Romay.

John Doebley has received recognition in the scientific community as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002 and has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1991.

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

  • The Molecular Genetics of Crop Domestication

    John F. Doebley;Brandon S. Gaut;Bruce D. Smith

  • A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping

    Yoshihiro Matsuoka;Yves Vigouroux;Major M. Goodman;G Jesus Sanchez

  • The evolution of apical dominance in maize

    John Doebley;Adrian Stec;Lauren Hubbard;Lauren Hubbard

  • Structure of linkage disequilibrium and phenotypic associations in the maize genome

    David L. Remington;Jeffry M. Thornsberry;Yoshihiro Matsuoka;Larissa M. Wilson

  • Dwarf8 polymorphisms associate with variation in flowering time.

    Jeffry M. Thornsberry;Major M. Goodman;John Doebley;Stephen Kresovich

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

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

  • Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement

    Matthew B. Hufford;Xun Xu;Joost Van Heerwaarden;Tanja Pyhäjärvi

  • The limits of selection during maize domestication

    Rong-Lin Wang;Adrian Stec;Jody Hey;Lewis Lukens

  • The TCP domain: a motif found in proteins regulating plant growth and development

    Pilar Cubas;Nick Lauter;John Doebley;Enrico Coen

  • The effects of artificial selection on the maize genome.

    Stephen I. Wright;Irie Vroh Bi;Steve G. Schroeder;Masanori Yamasaki

  • teosinte branched1 and the origin of maize: evidence for epistasis and the evolution of dominance.

    J Doebley;A Stec;C Gustus

  • Patterns of DNA sequence polymorphism along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)

    Maud I. Tenaillon;Mark C. Sawkins;Anthony D. Long;Rebecca L. Gaut

  • DNA sequence evidence for the segmental allotetraploid origin of maize

    Brandon S. Gaut;John F. Doebley

  • Identification of a functional transposon insertion in the maize domestication gene tb1

    Anthony Studer;Qiong Zhao;Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra;John Doebley

  • The Genetics of Maize Evolution

    John Doebley

  • Convergent domestication of cereal crops by independent mutations at corresponding genetic Loci.

    Andrew H. Paterson;Yann-Rong Lin;Zhikang Li;Keith F. Schertz

  • Genetic Structure and Diversity Among Maize Inbred Lines as Inferred From DNA Microsatellites

    Kejun Liu;Major Goodman;Spencer Muse;J. Stephen Smith

  • 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

  • The origin of the naked grains of maize

    Huai Wang;Tina Nussbaum-Wagler;Bailin Li;Qiong Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Brandon S. Gaut
Brandon S. Gaut University of California, Irvine
Major M. Goodman
Major M. Goodman North Carolina State University
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra University of California, Davis
James B. Holland
James B. Holland North Carolina State University
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Stephen Kresovich
Stephen Kresovich Clemson University
Peter J. Bradbury
Peter J. Bradbury United States Department of Agriculture
Sherry Flint-Garcia
Sherry Flint-Garcia United States Department of Agriculture
Qi Sun
Qi Sun Cornell University

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