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  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Robbie Waugh is affiliated with the James Hutton Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Biomedical Engineering. The core topics of Waugh's research work are diverse and cover areas such as Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications, Genetics and Plant Breeding, and Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies.

Notable publications by Robbie Waugh include:

  • The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding (2020) in Nature
  • 3D RNA-seq: a powerful and flexible tool for rapid and accurate differential expression and alternative splicing analysis of RNA-seq data for biologists (2020) in RNA Biology
  • Identifying plant genes shaping microbiota composition in the barley rhizosphere (2022) in Nature Communications
  • A high-resolution single-molecule sequencing-based Arabidopsis transcriptome using novel methods of Iso-seq analysis (2022) in Genome Biology
  • A Genome Assembly of the Barley 'Transformation Reference' Cultivar Golden Promise (2020) in G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Waugh reflect ongoing partnerships and include:

  • Miriam Schreiber
  • Micha Bayer
  • Luke Ramsay
  • Nils Stein
  • Joanne Russell

Waugh's research has been published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Plant Science, The Plant Journal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In recognition of their professional contributions, Robbie Waugh was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato.

    Xu X;Pan S;Cheng S

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

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

  • 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

  • Direct comparison of levels of genetic variation among barley accessions detected by RFLPs, AFLPs, SSRs and RAPDs

    J. R. Russell;J. D. Fuller;M. Macaulay;B. G. Hatz

  • A Simple Sequence Repeat-Based Linkage Map of Barley

    L Ramsay;M Macaulay;S degli Ivanissevich;K MacLean

  • Development and implementation of high-throughput SNP genotyping in barley

    Timothy J Close;Prasanna R Bhat;Prasanna R Bhat;Stefano Lonardi;Yonghui Wu;Yonghui Wu

  • A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping

    David M. Spooner;Karen McLean;Gavin Ramsay;Robbie Waugh

  • Computational and Experimental Characterization of Physically Clustered Simple Sequence Repeats in Plants

    Linda Cardle;Luke Ramsay;Dan Milbourne;Malcolm Macaulay

  • Genetic distribution of Bare-1-like retrotransposable elements in the barley genome revealed by sequence-specific amplification polymorphisms (S-SAP)

    R. Waugh;K. McLean;A. J. Flavell;S. R. Pearce

  • Comparison of PCR-based marker systems for the analysis of genetic relationships in cultivated potato

    Dan Milbourne;Rhonda Meyer;John E. Bradshaw;Eileen Baird

  • Agriculture: Feeding the future

    Susan McCouch;Gregory J. Baute;James Bradeen;Paula Bramel

  • The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding.

    Murukarthick Jayakodi;Sudharsan Padmarasu;Georg Haberer;Venkata Suresh Bonthala

  • Unlocking the Barley Genome by Chromosomal and Comparative Genomics

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Mihaela Martis;Pete E. Hedley;Hana Simkova

  • Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley

    Jordi Comadran;Benjamin Kilian;Joanne Russell;Luke Ramsay

  • Cereal breeding takes a walk on the wild side.

    Catherine Feuillet;Peter Langridge;Robbie Waugh

  • INTERMEDIUM-C, a modifier of lateral spikelet fertility in barley, is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1

    Luke Ramsay;Jordi Comadran;Arnis Druka;David F Marshall

  • Isolation, characterisation and mapping of simple sequence repeat loci in potato

    D. Milbourne;R. C. Meyer;A. J. Collins;L. D. Ramsay

  • A structured mutant population for forward and reverse genetics in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

    David G. Caldwell;Nicola McCallum;Paul Shaw;Gary J. Muehlbauer

  • Detection of genetic variation between and within populations of Gliricidia sepium and G. maculata using RAPD markers

    K J Chalmers;R Waugh;J I Sprent;A J Simons

  • Detection of genetic diversity in tea (Camellia sinensis) using RAPD markers

    Wachira Fn;Waugh R;Hackett Ca;Powell W

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Luke Ramsay
Luke Ramsay James Hutton Institute
Joanne Russell
Joanne Russell James Hutton Institute
Pete E. Hedley
Pete E. Hedley James Hutton Institute
David Marshall
David Marshall James Hutton Institute
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
John W. S. Brown
John W. S. Brown James Hutton Institute
Wayne Powell
Wayne Powell Scotland's Rural College
Martin Mascher
Martin Mascher Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Timothy J. Close
Timothy J. Close University of California, Riverside

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