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Overview

Junhua Peng is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on plant science and genetics. Peng's work addresses significant questions in genetics, molecular biology, and crop production, contributing to a variety of scientific disciplines.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of focus in Peng's research are:

  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Research topics frequently explored by Peng include:

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Frequent publication venues for Peng consist of:

  • GCB Bioenergy
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Agronomy
  • PLoS ONE

Junhua Peng has collaborated regularly with these coauthors:

  • Lindsay V. Clark
  • Toshihiko Yamada
  • Xiaoli Jin
  • Chang Yeon Yu
  • Ji Hye Yoo

Representative recent publications include:

  • Resistance Genes and their Interactions with Bacterial Blight/Leaf Streak Pathogens (Xanthomonas oryzae) in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)-an Updated Review, 2020, Rice
  • Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Whole-genome sequencing of diverse wheat accessions uncovers genetic changes during modern breeding in China and the United States, 2023, The Plant Cell
  • The role of 14-3-3 proteins in plant growth and response to abiotic stress, 2021, Plant Cell Reports
  • Training Population Optimization for Genomic Selection in Miscanthus, 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Best Publications

  • Comparative DNA Sequence Analysis of Wheat and Rice Genomes

    Mark E. Sorrells;Mauricio La Rota;Catherine E. Bermudez-Kandianis;Robert A. Greene

  • A chromosome bin map of 16,000 expressed sequence tag loci and distribution of genes among the three genomes of polyploid wheat.

    L. L. Qi;B. Echalier;S. Chao;S. Chao;G. R. Lazo

  • Domestication evolution, genetics and genomics in wheat

    Junhua H. Peng;Junhua H. Peng;Dongfa Sun;Eviatar Nevo

  • The Organization and Rate of Evolution of Wheat Genomes Are Correlated With Recombination Rates Along Chromosome Arms

    Eduard D. Akhunov;Andrew W. Goodyear;Shu Geng;Li-Li Qi

  • Domestication quantitative trait loci in Triticum dicoccoides, the progenitor of wheat.

    Junhua Peng;Yefim Ronin;Tzion Fahima;Marion S. Röder

  • Characterization of EST-derived microsatellites in the wheat genome and development of eSSR markers

    J. H. Peng;Nora L. V. Lapitan

  • Molecular Genetic Maps in Wild Emmer Wheat, Triticum dicoccoides: Genome-Wide Coverage, Massive Negative Interference, and Putative Quasi-Linkage

    Junhua Peng;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Marion S. Röder

  • Microsatellite tagging of the stripe-rust resistance gene YrH52 derived from wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, and suggestive negative crossover interference on chromosome 1B

    J. H. Peng;T. Fahima;M. S. Röder;Y. C. Li

  • Enhanced Efficiency of Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping Analysis Based on Multivariate Complexes of Quantitative Traits

    Abraham B. Korol;Yefim I. Ronin;Alexander M. Itskovich;Junhua Peng

  • Synteny perturbations between wheat homoeologous chromosomes caused by locus duplications and deletions correlate with recombination rates

    Eduard D. Akhunov;Alina R. Akhunova;Anna M. Linkiewicz;Jorge Dubcovsky

  • High-density molecular map of chromosome region harboring stripe-rust resistance genes YrH52 and Yr15 derived from wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides

    J.H. Peng;T. Fahima;Röder;Q.Y. Huang

  • Three lignocellulose features that distinctively affect biomass enzymatic digestibility under NaOH and H2SO4 pretreatments in Miscanthus.

    Wei Zhang;Zili Yi;Jiangfeng Huang;Fengcheng Li

  • Development of an expressed sequence tag (EST) resource for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): EST generation, unigene analysis, probe selection and bioinformatics for a 16,000-locus bin-delineated map

    Lazo Gr;Chao S;Hummel Dd;Edwards H

  • Microsatellite Diversity Correlated with Ecological-Edaphic and Genetic Factors in Three Microsites of Wild Emmer Wheat in North Israel

    Youchun Li;Tzion Fahima;Abraham B. Korol;Junhua Peng

  • Genetic Diversity Revealed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers in a Worldwide Germplasm Collection of Durum Wheat

    Jing Ren;Daokun Sun;Liang Chen;Frank M You

  • Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tag Loci on Wheat Chromosome Group 4

    Miftahudin;Miftahudin;K Ross;X F Ma;A A Mahmoud

  • Wild emmer wheat, 'Triticum dicoccoides', occupies a pivotal position in wheat domestication process

    Junhua Peng;Dongfa Sun;Eviatar Nevo

  • Microsatellite-based molecular diversity of bread wheat germplasm and association mapping of wheat resistance to the Russian wheat aphid.

    J. H. Peng;J. H. Peng;Y. Bai;S. D. Haley;N. L. V. Lapitan

  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES UNRAVEL THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NAC PROTEINS IN PLANTS

    Tingting Zhu;Eviatar Nevo;Dongfa Sun;Junhua Peng;Junhua Peng

  • A 2600-locus chromosome bin map of wheat homoeologous group 2 reveals interstitial gene-rich islands and colinearity with rice.

    E. J. Conley;V. Nduati;J. L. Gonzalez-Hernandez;J. L. Gonzalez-Hernandez;A. Mesfin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nora L. V. Lapitan
Nora L. V. Lapitan Colorado State University
Shiaoman Chao
Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service
Eviatar Nevo
Eviatar Nevo University of Haifa
Kulvinder S. Gill
Kulvinder S. Gill Washington State University
Eduard Akhunov
Eduard Akhunov Kansas State University
Olin D. Anderson
Olin D. Anderson United States Department of Agriculture
Henry T. Nguyen
Henry T. Nguyen University of Missouri
Mark E. Sorrells
Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Bikram S. Gill
Bikram S. Gill Kansas State University

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