Francois J. Belzile

The study identifies a rare recombination event in Phytophthora sojae that redefines the avirulence gene recognized by Rps6, improving pathotyping and disease resistance strategies.

The paper sequenced wild barley to identify genetic markers linked to agronomic traits and found novel loci for stem rust resistance and days to heading.

This study compares conventional and AI-based variant callers using short and long reads from the GIAB project, finding AI tools outperform conventional ones in accuracy for SNVs and INDELs.

This study uses ML-GWAS to identify genomic regions linked to cuticular wax ester biosynthesis and early maturity in wheat, finding significant associations and candidate genes.

This study compares k-mer-based GWAS with conventional SNP/indel-based GWAS in soybean, finding k-mer-based methods more effective at identifying causal variants and candidate genes for specific traits.

The paper combines Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing to analyze structural variation in soybean cultivars, showing that long-read data can be effectively used with short-read data for population-scale SV analysis.