Burkhard Steuernagel

Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Expression Gradients in Developing Wheat Inflorescences at Cellular Resolution

This study uses spatial transcriptomics to analyze gene expression gradients in wheat inflorescences, revealing dynamic spatio-temporal organization along the apical-basal axis.

Genomic and Genetic Insights into Mendel's Pea Genes

This study identifies genetic variants underlying seven Mendelian traits in pea, revealing new alleles and gene mutations for traits previously poorly understood.

Septoria tritici blotch resistance gene Stb15 encodes a lectin receptor-like kinase

The paper identifies Stb15, a lectin receptor-like kinase gene conferring resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in wheat, through GWAS and functional validation.

Chromosome-scale genome assembly provides insights into rye biology, evolution, and agronomic potential

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

Resistance gene discovery and cloning by sequence capture and association genetics

This paper clones four stem rust resistance genes in wild diploid wheat using association genetics and R gene enrichment sequencing within six months.

Chromosome-scale comparative sequence analysis unravels molecular mechanisms of genome evolution between two wheat cultivars

The paper compares the genome sequences of two wheat cultivars to identify structural variations and their evolutionary mechanisms.

The wheat Sr22, Sr33, Sr35 and Sr45 genes confer resistance against stem rust in barley

This study assesses the functionality of cloned wheat Sr genes in barley, finding that Sr22, Sr33, Sr35, and Sr45 confer effective resistance against stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici.

Physical and transcriptional organisation of the bread wheat intracellular immune receptor repertoire

The paper develops NLR-Annotator to identify NLR genes in wheat genomes and characterizes their structure, phylogeny, and expression, finding 3,400 NLR loci with 88% low basal expression.

A modified sequence capture approach allowing standard and methylation analyses of the same enriched genomic DNA sample

The paper introduces a modified sequence capture method that enables simultaneous analysis of genotype and methylation from the same genomic DNA sample in wheat.