Peggy Ozias‐Akins

The paper shows that expressing VuBBML1 in both egg and central cells of cowpea, along with central cell fertilization, enables parthenogenesis and viable haploid seed formation.

This study analyzes the genetic diversity of cowpea using 10,617 accessions, revealing nine genetic groups and highlighting untapped genetic resources for crop improvement.

This study develops and applies long-read low-pass sequencing for high-resolution trait mapping in peanut, showing improved variant detection and cost-effectiveness compared to short-read methods.

This paper identifies a major locus controlling flowering pattern in cultivated peanut, linking a deletion in AhTFL1 to the evolution of mainstem flowering.

This study identifies SNPs and their interactions associated with fatty acid composition in peanut, revealing pleiotropy and epistasis in genetic control.

The paper introduces Khufu, a pipeline that improves QTL-seq accuracy in complex genomes by filtering loci based on optimal short read alignment, validated using peanut and other species datasets.

AhNGE provides RNAseq data and ortholog analysis for peanut nodule development, enabling comparative genomics with other legumes and non-legumes.

The paper genotypes a peanut core collection, identifies genetic clusters, and links them to botanical varieties and biogeography.

The paper identifies major QTLs for resistance to early and late leaf spot diseases on chromosomes 3 and 5 in peanut, showing genetic independence and potential for marker-assisted breeding.

This paper develops machine learning models to identify true SNPs in polyploid plants, achieving high accuracy using real and simulated data.