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Shiaoman Chao is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States and has a research focus primarily in agricultural and biological sciences. Their scholarly work contributes extensively to the fields of plant science, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on plant pathology and genetic resistance mechanisms.

The core areas of Chao's research include wheat and barley genetics and pathology, plant disease resistance and genetics, genetics and plant breeding, as well as genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals. Additional topics covered in their work involve yeasts and rust fungi studies, mycotoxins in agriculture and food, and plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Chao include Matthew N. Rouse, Shaobin Zhong, Yue Jin, Jason D. Fiedler, and Xiwen Cai. These collaborations reflect a focused effort on genetic and pathological studies within cereal crops.

Chao has published research in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Plant Registrations (2 publications)
  • The Plant Journal (1 publication)
  • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (1 publication)
  • Euphytica (1 publication)
  • Crop Science (1 publication)

Significant recent papers by Chao include:

  • "Function and evolution of allelic variations of Sr13 conferring resistance to stem rust in tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L.)", 2021, The Plant Journal
  • "Genetic and Agro-morphological diversity in global barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) collection at ICARDA", 2020, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
  • "Genome-wide association studies revealed novel stripe rust resistance QTL in barley at seedling and adult-plant stages", 2021, Euphytica
  • "Natural Genetic Variation Underlying Tiller Development in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L)", 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • "Identification and validation of Fusarium head blight resistance QTL in the U.S. soft red winter wheat cultivar 'Jamestown'", 2020, Crop Science

Best Publications

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

    Shichen Wang;Debbie Wong;Kerrie Forrest;Alexandra Allen

  • Genome-wide comparative diversity uncovers multiple targets of selection for improvement in hexaploid wheat landraces and cultivars.

    Colin R. Cavanagh;Shiaoman Chao;Shichen Wang;Bevan Emma Huang

  • RFLP-based genetic maps of wheat homoeologous group 7 chromosomes

    S. Chao;P. J. Sharp;A. J. Worland;E. J. Warham

  • Durum wheat genome highlights past domestication signatures and future improvement targets

    Marco Maccaferri;Marco Maccaferri;Neil S. Harris;Sven O. Twardziok;Raj K. Pasam

  • 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

  • Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding. Knowledge and Prospects.

    Aaron J. Lorenz;Shiaoman Chao;Franco G. Asoro;Elliot L. Heffner

  • 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

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Resistance to Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in a Worldwide Collection of Hexaploid Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

    Marco Maccaferri;Junli Zhang;Peter Bulli;Zewdie Abate

  • Transgenerational CRISPR-Cas9 Activity Facilitates Multiplex Gene Editing in Allopolyploid Wheat

    Wei Wang;Qianli Pan;Fei He;Alina Akhunova

  • Population- and genome-specific patterns of linkage disequilibrium and SNP variation in spring and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

    Shiaoman Chao;Jorge Dubcovsky;Jan Dvorak;Ming Cheng Luo

  • Evaluation of Genetic Diversity and Genome‐wide Linkage Disequilibrium among U.S. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Germplasm Representing Different Market Classes

    Shiaoman Chao;Wenjun Zhang;Jorge Dubcovsky;Mark Sorrells

  • The USDA Barley Core Collection: Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Potential for Genome-Wide Association Studies

    María Muñoz-Amatriaín;Alfonso Cuesta-Marcos;Jeffrey B. Endelman;Jordi Comadran

  • Variation in the AvrSr35 gene determines Sr35 resistance against wheat stem rust race Ug99

    Andres Salcedo;William Rutter;Shichen Wang;Alina Akhunova

  • Association mapping of spot blotch resistance in wild barley.

    Joy K. Roy;Kevin P. Smith;Gary J. Muehlbauer;Shiaoman Chao

  • RFLP-based maps of the homoeologous group-6 chromosomes of wheat and their application in the tagging of Pm12, a powdery mildew resistance gene transferred from Aegilops speltoides to wheat.

    J. Jia;K. M. Devos;S. Chao;T. E. Miller

  • Analysis of gene-derived SNP marker polymorphism in US wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars

    Shiaoman Chao;Wenjun Zhang;Eduard Akhunov;Jamie Sherman

  • Genome-wide association mapping of Fusarium head blight resistance in contemporary barley breeding germplasm

    J. Massman;B. Cooper;R. Horsley;S. Neate

  • New DNA markers for high molecular weight glutenin subunits in wheat

    Sixin Liu;Shiaoman Chao;James A. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
James A. Anderson
James A. Anderson University of Minnesota
Steven S. Xu
Steven S. Xu United States Department of Agriculture
Eduard Akhunov
Eduard Akhunov Kansas State University
Matthew N. Rouse
Matthew N. Rouse US Department of Agriculture
Mark E. Sorrells
Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University
Justin D. Faris
Justin D. Faris Agricultural Research Service
Gerard R. Lazo
Gerard R. Lazo Agricultural Research Service
Yue Jin
Yue Jin US Department of Agriculture
Timothy J. Close
Timothy J. Close University of California, Riverside

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