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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Rudi Appels is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences, focusing primarily on plant science and genetics. Their academic work encompasses a broad range of topics including wheat and barley genetics and pathology, food composition and properties, and genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals.

Their recent research publications include the following papers:

  • Optical maps refine the bread wheat Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring genome assembly (2021) published in The Plant Journal
  • Resequencing of 145 Landmark Cultivars Reveals Asymmetric Sub-genome Selection and Strong Founder Genotype Effects on Wheat Breeding in China (2020) published in Molecular Plant
  • Origin and adaptation to high altitude of Tibetan semi-wild wheat (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Pan-genome bridges wheat structural variations with habitat and breeding (2024) published in Nature
  • The Battle to Sequence the Bread Wheat Genome: A Tale of the Three Kingdoms (2020) published in Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Xueyong Zhang
  • Jizeng Jia
  • Kate Howell
  • Weilong Guo
  • Yasmeen M. Bashmil

Rudi Appels' work has been published consistently in several established scientific venues, notably:

  • The Plant Journal
  • Molecular Plant
  • Food Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Molecules

Main fields of study for Appels include:

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

Subfields of specialization consist of:

  • Plant Science
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Genetics
  • Food Science
  • Molecular Biology

Key topics within their research portfolio are:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Food composition and properties
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Among the recognitions awarded to Rudi Appels is the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, earned in 1985.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Characterization of polyploid wheat genomic diversity using a high-density 90 000 single nucleotide polymorphism array

    Shichen Wang;Debbie Wong;Kerrie Forrest;Alexandra Allen

  • The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

    R. H. Ramírez-González;P. Borrill;D. Lang;S. A. Harrington

  • Aegilops tauschii draft genome sequence reveals a gene repertoire for wheat adaptation

    Jizeng Jia;Shancen Zhao;Xiuying Kong;Yingrui Li

  • A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B

    Etienne Paux;Pierre Sourdille;Jérôme Salse;Cyrille Saintenac

  • Optical maps refine the bread wheat Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring genome assembly.

    Tingting Zhu;Le Wang;Hélène Rimbert;Juan C Rodriguez

  • A workshop report on wheat genome sequencing: international genome research on wheat consortium

    B.S. Gill;R. Appels;A.M. Botha-Oberholster;C.R. Buell

  • MOLECULAR-GENETIC MAPS FOR GROUP 1 CHROMOSOMES OF TRITICEAE SPECIES AND THEIR RELATION TO CHROMOSOMES IN RICE AND OAT

    Deynze Ae;Nelson Jc;Sorrells Me;McCouch

  • The wheat ribosomal DNA spacer region: Its structure and variation in populations and among species.

    R. Appels;J. Dvořák

  • New Secale cereale (rye) DNA derivatives for the detection of rye chromosome segments in wheat.

    C. L. McIntyre;S. Pereira;L. B. Moran;R. Appels

  • Megabase Level Sequencing Reveals Contrasted Organization and Evolution Patterns of the Wheat Gene and Transposable Element Spaces

    Frédéric Choulet;Thomas Wicker;Camille Rustenholz;Etienne Paux

  • When Genes Tell Different Stories: the Diploid Genera of Triticeae (Gramineae)

    Elizabeth A. Kellogg;Rudi Appels;Roberta J. Mason-Gamer

  • Trends in genetic and genome analyses in wheat: a review

    P. Langridge;E. S. Lagudah;T. A. Holton;R. Appels

  • The major proteins of wheat endosperm starch granules

    S. Rahman;B. Kosar-Hashemi;M. S. Samuel;A. Hill

  • An accurate DNA marker assay for stem rust resistance gene Sr2 in wheat

    R. Mago;G. Brown-Guedira;S. Dreisigacker;J. Breen

  • Genes controlling seed dormancy and pre-harvest sprouting in a rice-wheat-barley comparison

    Chengdao Li;Peixiang Ni;Michael Francki;Adam Hunter

  • Catalogue of gene symbols for wheat: 2013-14 Supplement

    R.A. Mcintosh;J. Dubcovsky;John William Rogers;C. F. Morris

  • Quantitative trait loci for carbon isotope discrimination are repeatable across environments and wheat mapping populations

    G J Rebetzke;Anthony G Condon;Graham Farquhar;Rudi Appels

  • CATALOGUE OF GENE SYMBOLS FOR WHEAT: 2012 SUPPLEMENT

    R. A. McIntosh;J. Dubcovsky;C. Morris;R. Appels

Frequent Co-Authors

Wujun Ma
Wujun Ma Murdoch University
Evans Lagudah
Evans Lagudah Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zhonghu He
Zhonghu He Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Matthew K. Morell
Matthew K. Morell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Chengdao Li
Chengdao Li Murdoch University
Bikram S. Gill
Bikram S. Gill Kansas State University
Frank Békés
Frank Békés Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Xianchun Xia
Xianchun Xia Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
Catherine Feuillet
Catherine Feuillet Bayer (Germany)
Matthew J. Hayden
Matthew J. Hayden La Trobe University

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