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Shahryar F. Kianian is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. Their scientific contributions span several subfields including Cell Biology and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies. Additional areas of study include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Plant Virus Research Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food.

Recent notable publications by Shahryar F. Kianian include:

  • Increased virulence of Puccinia coronata f. sp.avenae populations through allele frequency changes at multiple putative Avr loci, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Epigenetic regulation of gene expression improves Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A chromosome-level, fully phased genome assembly of the oat crown rust fungus Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: a resource to enable comparative genomics in the cereal rusts, 2022, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Identification of Main-Effect and Environmental Interaction QTL and Their Candidate Genes for Drought Tolerance in a Wheat RIL Population Between Two Elite Spring Cultivars, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Sequencing 4.3 million mutations in wheat promoters to understand and modify gene expression, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in Shahryar F. Kianian's research include:

  • Melania Figueroa
  • Eric S. Nazareno
  • Eva C. Henningsen
  • Peter N. Dodds
  • Jana Sperschneider

The most common venues for their work feature:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Disease
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Frontiers in Genetics

Best Publications

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

    Etienne Paux;Pierre Sourdille;Jérôme Salse;Cyrille Saintenac

  • 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

  • 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

  • Generation of a Brassica oleracea composite RFLP map: linkage arrangements among various populations and evolutionary implications.

    S. F. Kianian;C. F. Quiros

  • A 4-gigabase physical map unlocks the structure and evolution of the complex genome of Aegilops tauschii, the wheat D-genome progenitor

    Ming Cheng Luo;Yong Q. Gu;Frank M. You;Karin R. Deal

  • Multiple Loci and Epistases Control Genetic Variation for Seed Dormancy in Weedy Rice (Oryza sativa)

    Xing You Gu;Shahryar F. Kianian;Michael E. Foley

  • A molecular linkage map of cultivated oat.

    L. S. O'Donoughue;M. E. Sorrells;S. D. Tanksley;E. Autrique

  • The role of mitochondria in plant development and stress tolerance.

    Katie L. Liberatore;Katie L. Liberatore;Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze;Marisa E. Miller;Changbin Chen

  • Genetic analysis of adaptive syndromes interrelated with seed dormancy in weedy rice (Oryza sativa)

    Xing-You Gu;Shahryar F. Kianian;Gary A. Hareland;Barry L. Hoffer

  • Genetic dissection of a major Fusarium head blight QTL in tetraploid wheat.

    C.D. Otto;S.F. Kianian;E.M. Elias;R.W. Stack

  • Dissection of Genetic Factors underlying Wheat Kernel Shape and Size in an Elite × Nonadapted Cross using a High Density SNP Linkage Map

    Ajay Kumar;E. E. Mantovani;R. Seetan;A. Soltani

  • Map-based analysis of genes affecting the brittle rachis character in tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L.).

    Vamsi J. Nalam;Vamsi J. Nalam;M. Isabel Vales;Christy J. W. Watson;Shahryar F. Kianian

  • 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

  • Analysis of the Brassica oleracea genome by the generation of B. campestris-oleracea chromosome addition lines: characterization by isozymes and rDNA genes

    C. F. Quiros;O. Ochoa;Shahryar Kianian;D. Douches

  • 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

  • A molecular marker map in 'Kanota' x 'Ogle' hexaploid oat (Avena spp.) enhanced by additional markers and a robust framework.

    Charlene P Wight;Nicholas A Tinker;Shahryar F Kianian;Mark E Sorrells

  • Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: a threat to global oat production

    Eric S. Nazareno;Feng Li;Madeleine Smith;Robert F. Park

  • Evaluation of a high grain protein QTL from Triticum turgidum L. var. dicoccoides in an adapted durum wheat background

    P.W. Chee;E.M. Elias;J.A. Anderson;S.F. Kianian

  • Genomic features shaping the landscape of meiotic double-strand-break hotspots in maize.

    Yan He;Yan He;Minghui Wang;Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze;Adele Zhou

  • Chromosome Sorting in Tetraploid Wheat and Its Potential for Genome Analysis

    Marie Kubaláková;Pavlína Kovárová;Pavla Suchánková;Jarmila Cíhalíková

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiaoman Chao
Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service
Gerard R. Lazo
Gerard R. Lazo Agricultural Research Service
Mark E. Sorrells
Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University
Eduard Akhunov
Eduard Akhunov Kansas State University
Bikram S. Gill
Bikram S. Gill Kansas State University
Olin D. Anderson
Olin D. Anderson United States Department of Agriculture
Tika B. Adhikari
Tika B. Adhikari North Carolina State University
James A. Anderson
James A. Anderson University of Minnesota
Henry T. Nguyen
Henry T. Nguyen University of Missouri
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis

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