Curtis Jerry Pozniak

The paper presents high-quality genome assemblies for all 25 Aegilops species, revealing evolutionary dynamics and gene content variation through comparative genomics.

The paper identifies the origin of the predominant North American Pst lineage, PstS18, as a somatic hybridization event between PstS1 and an unknown lineage.

The paper investigates subgenome-level variations in polyploid wheat cultivars under drought stress to understand how they affect yield and quality while adapting to environmental conditions.

This study presents a barley pangenome revealing structural variation linked to traits like disease resistance and plant architecture, highlighting its role in adaptive evolution.

The paper analyzes the genetic composition and history of the bread wheat D genome using a pangenome of its donor species, revealing contributions from discrete subpopulations of Aegilops tauschii.

This study clones two genes, CNL and NL, underlying Yr84-mediated stripe rust resistance in wheat, revealing their coordinated function as sensor and helper NLRs.

This study annotates the wheat pan-transcriptome de novo and identifies gene diversity and expression patterns across multiple wheat cultivars and tissues.

The paper sequences 4.3 million promoter mutations and 4.7 million coding mutations in wheat to understand gene function and improve agronomic traits.

The paper uses long-read sequencing to clone a resistance gene in wheat, resolving structural complexities and enabling its introgression into other wheat varieties.

The paper presents a chromosome-scale rye genome assembly to study genomic evolution and agronomic traits in Triticeae crops.

The paper shows that three yellow rust resistance genes in wheat are all encoded by the same locus Wtk1, but their resistance responses vary depending on genetic background.

TRITEX improves chromosome-scale genome assemblies for Triticeae crops using open-source tools and multiple sequencing data types.

The paper identifies 12 grain protein content QTLs in a durum x wild emmer wheat RIL population across five environments, with 11 favorable alleles from wild emmer wheat.