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Wolfgang Spielmeyer is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences with a particular concentration in plant science, agronomy and crop science, genetics, and cell biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Bioenergy Crop Production and Management
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wolfgang Spielmeyer are:

  • Brett Ford
  • Wolfram Buss
  • Jaroslav Doležel
  • Philippa Borrill
  • Jessica Hyles

Their research outputs have been published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plant Disease

Notable recent publications by Wolfgang Spielmeyer include:

  • Stem rust resistance in wheat is suppressed by a subunit of the mediator complex, 2020, Nature Communications
  • An autoactive NB-LRR gene causes Rht13 dwarfism in wheat, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Overgrowth mutants determine the causal role of gibberellin GA2oxidaseA13 in Rht12 dwarfism of wheat, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Effect of gibberellin-sensitive Rht18 and gibberellin-insensitive Rht-D1b dwarfing genes on vegetative and reproductive growth in bread wheat, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Disease Resistance Evaluation of Elite CIMMYT Wheat Lines Containing the Coupled Fhb1 and Sr2 Genes, 2020, Plant Disease

Best Publications

  • A Putative ABC Transporter Confers Durable Resistance to Multiple Fungal Pathogens in Wheat

    Simon G. Krattinger;Evans S. Lagudah;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Ravi P. Singh

  • Semidwarf (sd-1), "green revolution" rice, contains a defective gibberellin 20-oxidase gene

    Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Marc H. Ellis;Peter M. Chandler

  • A recently evolved hexose transporter variant confers resistance to multiple pathogens in wheat.

    John W Moore;Sybil Herrera-Foessel;Caixia Lan;Wendelin Schnippenkoetter

  • "Perfect" markers for the Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b dwarfing genes in wheat.

    M. H. Ellis;W. Spielmeyer;K. R. Gale;G. J. Rebetzke

  • Molecular genetic characterization of the Lr34/Yr18 slow rusting resistance gene region in wheat.

    E. S. Lagudah;H. McFadden;R. P. Singh;J. Huerta-Espino

  • The past, present and future of breeding rust resistant wheat.

    Jeffrey G. Ellis;Evans S. Lagudah;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Peter N. Dodds

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

    Etienne Paux;Pierre Sourdille;Jérôme Salse;Cyrille Saintenac

  • Gene-specific markers for the wheat gene Lr34/Yr18/Pm38 which confers resistance to multiple fungal pathogens

    Evans S. Lagudah;Simon G. Krattinger;Sybil Herrera-Foessel;Ravi P. Singh

  • HKT1;5-Like Cation Transporters Linked to Na+ Exclusion Loci in Wheat, Nax2 and Kna1

    C.S. Byrt;J.D. Platten;W. Spielmeyer;R.A. James

  • Breeding for improved water productivity in temperate cereals: phenotyping, quantitative trait loci, markers and the selection environment

    Richard A. Richards;Greg J. Rebetzke;Michelle Watt;A. G. (Tony) Condon

  • A Sodium Transporter (HKT7) Is a Candidate for Nax1, a Gene for Salt Tolerance in Durum Wheat

    Shaobai Huang;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Evans S. Lagudah;Richard A. James

  • Powdery mildew resistance and Lr34/Yr18 genes for durable resistance to leaf and stripe rust cosegregate at a locus on the short arm of chromosome 7D of wheat

    W. Spielmeyer;R. A. McIntosh;J. Kolmer;E. S. Lagudah

  • Development of PCR markers for the selection of wheat stem rust resistance genes Sr24 and Sr26 in diverse wheat germplasm

    R. Mago;H. S. Bariana;I. S. Dundas;W. Spielmeyer

  • Identification and mapping of molecular markers linked to rust resistance genes located on chromosome 1RS of rye using wheat-rye translocation lines

    R. Mago;W. Spielmeyer;G. J. Lawrence;E. S. Lagudah

  • Molecular mapping of gibberellin-responsive dwarfing genes in bread wheat.

    M. H. Ellis;G. J. Rebetzke;F. Azanza;R. A. Richards

  • The effect of different height reducing genes on the early growth of wheat

    Marc H Ellis;Greg J Rebetzke;Peter Chandler;David Bonnett

  • Identification and Validation of Markers Linked to Broad-Spectrum Stem Rust Resistance Gene Sr2 in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

    W. Spielmeyer;P. J. Sharp;E. S. Lagudah

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

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

  • The wheat Sr50 gene reveals rich diversity at a cereal disease resistance locus.

    Rohit Mago;Peng Zhang;Sonia Vautrin;Hana Šimková

  • Comparative mapping of HKT genes in wheat, barley, and rice, key determinants of Na+ transport, and salt tolerance

    Shaobai Huang;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Evans S. Lagudah;Rana Munns

Frequent Co-Authors

Evans Lagudah
Evans Lagudah Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Richard A. Richards
Richard A. Richards Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne
Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Peter M. Chandler
Peter M. Chandler Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rana Munns
Rana Munns University of Western Australia
Richard A. James
Richard A. James Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Greg J. Rebetzke
Greg J. Rebetzke Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Harbans Bariana
Harbans Bariana Western Sydney University
Hélène Bergès
Hélène Bergès INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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