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Susanne Dreisigacker is affiliated with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in plant science and genetics. Dreisigacker's publications reflect a deep engagement with topics related to wheat and barley genetics and pathology, genetics and plant breeding, and genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals.

Their recent published papers include:

  • The Modern Plant Breeding Triangle: Optimizing the Use of Genomics, Phenomics, and Enviromics Data, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture, 2020, Journal of Plant Physiology
  • Adult Plant Slow Rusting Genes Confer High Levels of Resistance to Rusts in Bread Wheat Cultivars From Mexico, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Genomic variants affecting homoeologous gene expression dosage contribute to agronomic trait variation in allopolyploid wheat, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Updated guidelines for gene nomenclature in wheat, 2023, Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Frequent coauthors in Dreisigacker's body of work include:

  • José Crossa
  • Leonardo Crespo-Herrera
  • Ravi P. Singh
  • Julio Huerta-Espino
  • Deepmala Sehgal

Publication venues where Dreisigacker has been frequently published include:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The Plant Genome
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Genes
  • Frontiers in Genetics

Their work spans several subfields such as agronomy and crop science, cell biology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, alongside the main focuses on plant science and genetics.

Main topics covered in Dreisigacker's research encompass:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food

Best Publications

  • Quantifying novel sequence variation and selective advantage in synthetic hexaploid wheats and their backcross-derived lines using SSR markers

    Pingzhi Zhang;S. Dreisigacker;A. E. Melchinger;J. C. Reif

  • Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: Methods, Models, and Perspectives

    José Crossa;Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez;Jaime Cuevas;Osval Montesinos-López

  • 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

  • Prediction of genetic values of quantitative traits in plant breeding using pedigree and molecular markers.

    José Crossa;Gustavo De Los Campos;Gustavo De Los Campos;Paulino Pérez;Daniel Gianola

  • Genomic Selection in Wheat Breeding using Genotyping-by-Sequencing

    Jesse A. Poland;Jeffrey Endelman;Julie Dawson;Jessica Rutkoski

  • Wheat genetic diversity trends during domestication and breeding

    J C Reif;P Zhang;S Dreisigacker;M L Warburton

  • Association analysis of historical bread wheat germplasm using additive genetic covariance of relatives and population structure

    José Crossa;Juan Burgueño;Susanne Dreisigacker;Mateo Vargas

  • Development and validation of KASP assays for genes underpinning key economic traits in bread wheat.

    Awais Rasheed;Awais Rasheed;Weie Wen;Fengmei Gao;Shengnan Zhai

  • Genomic prediction in CIMMYT maize and wheat breeding programs

    Jose Crossa;Paulino Perez;John M Hickey;John M Hickey;Juan Burgueno

  • Genome-wide association study for grain yield and related traits in an elite spring wheat population grown in temperate irrigated environments

    Sivakumar Sukumaran;Susanne Dreisigacker;Marta Lopes;Perla Chavez

  • Increased prediction accuracy in wheat breeding trials using a marker × environment interaction genomic selection model.

    Marco Lopez-Cruz;Jose Crossa;David Bonnett;Susanne Dreisigacker

  • 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

  • Comparison Between Linear and Non-parametric Regression Models for Genome-Enabled Prediction in Wheat

    Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez;Daniel Gianola;Juan Manuel González-Camacho;José Crossa

  • Improving grain yield, stress resilience and quality of bread wheat using large-scale genomics.

    Philomin Juliana;Jesse Poland;Julio Huerta-Espino;Sandesh Shrestha

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

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

  • Wheat genetic resources enhancement by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

    Rodomiro Ortiz;Hans-Joachim Braun;José Crossa;Jonathan H. Crouch

  • SSR and Pedigree Analyses of Genetic Diversity among CIMMYT Wheat Lines Targeted to Different Megaenvironments

    S. Dreisigacker;P. Zhang;M.L. Warburton;M. Van Ginkel

  • Evaluation of genomic selection training population designs and genotyping strategies in plant breeding programs using simulation

    John M. Hickey;Susanne Dreisigacker;Jose Crossa;Sarah Hearne

  • Genomic Selection for Processing and End-Use Quality Traits in the CIMMYT Spring Bread Wheat Breeding Program

    Sarah D. Battenfield;Carlos Guzmán;R. Chris Gaynor;Ravi P. Singh

  • Bringing wild relatives back into the family: recovering genetic diversity in CIMMYT improved wheat germplasm

    M.L. Warburton;J. Crossa;J. Franco;M. Kazi

Frequent Co-Authors

José Crossa
José Crossa International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Jesse Poland
Jesse Poland King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Carlos Guzmán
Carlos Guzmán University of Córdoba
Matthew P. Reynolds
Matthew P. Reynolds International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Karim Ammar
Karim Ammar International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Suchismita Mondal
Suchismita Mondal Montana State University
Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez
Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez Colegio de Postgraduados
Marilyn L. Warburton
Marilyn L. Warburton United States Department of Agriculture
Julio Huerta-Espino
Julio Huerta-Espino International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

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