Semra Palali Delen

Domestication and Improvement Reshaped the Genomic Architecture of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Sunflower

This study identifies balancing and positive selection in sunflower genomic regions related to abiotic stress tolerance, finding that modern cultivars have higher deleterious mutation loads and that some ancestral alleles enhance salt tolerance.

Estimating the genetic parameters of yield-related traits under different nitrogen conditions in maize

This study estimates genetic parameters of yield-related traits in maize under different nitrogen conditions, finding that nitrogen-responsive traits are highly polygenic and show negative selection patterns.

Dissecting the genetic architecture of sunflower head diameter using genome-wide association study

This study uses GWAS to identify genetic loci associated with sunflower head diameter, finding 106 and 8 significant SNPs using MLM and farmCPU methods, respectively.