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  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Xianming Chen is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research covers multiple topics related to plant genetics and pathology, with a strong emphasis on wheat and barley genetics, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetics and plant breeding, and plant disease resistance and genetics. Additional topics include yeasts and rust fungi studies, plant pathogens and resistance, and plant-microbe interactions and immunity.

Xianming Chen has published extensively, contributing to journals such as the Journal of Plant Registrations, Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant Disease, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Research Square. Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Chen are:

  • Pathogens which threaten food security: Puccinia striiformis, the wheat stripe rust pathogen, 2020, Food Security
  • Breeding With Major and Minor Genes: Genomic Selection for Quantitative Disease Resistance, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Genome-Wide Association Study and Gene Specific Markers Identified 51 Genes or QTL for Resistance to Stripe Rust in U.S. Winter Wheat Cultivars and Breeding Lines, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Identification of Stripe Rust Resistance Loci in U.S. Spring Wheat Cultivars and Breeding Lines Using Genome-Wide Association Mapping and Yr Gene Markers, 2020, Plant Disease
  • The RLK protein TaCRK10 activates wheat high-temperature seedling-plant resistance to stripe rust through interacting with TaH2A.1, 2021, The Plant Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Meinan Wang, Deven R. See, Zhensheng Kang, Xiaoping Hu, and Chongjing Xia.

Recognition within the scientific community includes their election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Epidemiology and control of stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) on wheat

    X. M. Chen

  • A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust

    Daolin Fu;Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Ann Blechl

  • Wheat stripe (yellow) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

    Wanquan Chen;Colin Wellings;Xianming Chen;Zhengsheng Kang

  • Wheat Stripe Rust Epidemic and Virulence of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in China in 2002.

    Anmin Wan;Zhonghua Zhao;Xianming Chen;Zhonghu He

  • Review Article: High-Temperature Adult-Plant Resistance, Key for Sustainable Control of Stripe Rust

    Xianming Chen

  • Wheat stripe rust in China

    A. M. Wan;X. M. Chen;Z. H. He

  • Genome scanning for resistance-gene analogs in rice, barley, and wheat by high-resolution electrophoresis.

    X. M. Chen;R. F. Line;H. Leung

  • Wheat Stripe Rust Epidemics and Races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the United States in 2000.

    Xianming Chen;Mary Moore;Eugene A. Milus;David L. Long

  • 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

  • High-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) stripe rust resistance gene Yr36 from Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides is closely linked to the grain protein content locus Gpc-B1.

    Cristobal Uauy;Juan Carlos Brevis;Xianming Chen;Imtiaz Khan

  • Relationship between virulence variation and DNA polymorphism in Puccinia striiformis

    Xianming Chen;R. F. Line;Hei Leung

  • Genetics and molecular mapping of genes for race-specific all-stage resistance and non-race-specific high-temperature adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in spring wheat cultivar Alpowa

    F. Lin;X. M. Chen;X. M. Chen

  • High genome heterozygosity and endemic genetic recombination in the wheat stripe rust fungus

    Wenming Zheng;Wenming Zheng;Lili Huang;Jinqun Huang;Xiaojie Wang

  • Successes in breeding for and managing durable resistance to wheat rusts.

    R. F. Line;Xianming Chen

  • Challenges and solutions for stripe rust control in the United States

    X. M. Chen

  • Virulence races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in 2006 and 2007 and development of wheat stripe rust and distributions, dynamics, and evolutionary relationships of races from 2000 to 2007 in the United States

    Xianming Chen;Laura Penman;Anmin Wan;Peng Cheng

  • Pathogens which threaten food security: Puccinia striiformis , the wheat stripe rust pathogen

    Xianming Chen

  • Effect of population size on the estimation of QTL: a test using resistance to barley stripe rust.

    M. I. Vales;C. C. Schön;F. Capettini;X. M. Chen

  • Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors

    Dario Cantu;Vanesa Segovia;Daniel MacLean;Rosemary Bayles

  • Next generation sequencing provides rapid access to the genome of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the causal agent of wheat stripe rust.

    Dario Cantu;Manjula Govindarajulu;Alex Kozik;Meinan Wang

  • Resistance gene-analog polymorphism markers co-segregating with the YR5 gene for resistance to wheat stripe rust

    G P Yan;X M Chen;R F Line;C R Wellings

  • Gene action in wheat cultivars for durable, high-temperature, adult-plant resistance and interaction with race-specific , seedling resistance to Puccinia striiformis.

    Xianming Chen;R. F. Line

  • Virulence Characterization of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Using a New Set of Yr Single-Gene Line Differentials in the United States in 2010

    Anmin Wan;Xianming Chen

  • Mapping quantitative and qualitative disease resistance genes in a doubled haploid population of barley (Hordeum vulgare)

    T. Toojinda;L. H. Broers;X. M. Chen;P. M. Hayes

Frequent Co-Authors

Yue Jin
Yue Jin US Department of Agriculture
Zhensheng Kang
Zhensheng Kang Northwest A&F University
James Kolmer
James Kolmer Agricultural Research Service
Craig F. Morris
Craig F. Morris United States Department of Agriculture
Guihua Bai
Guihua Bai United States Department of Agriculture
Arron H. Carter
Arron H. Carter Washington State University
Michael O. Pumphrey
Michael O. Pumphrey Washington State University
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Robert L. Bowden
Robert L. Bowden US Department of Agriculture
Jianli Chen
Jianli Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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