Cristóbal Uauy

EISCA and EISTA are pipelines for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis that provide standardized, modular workflows for data processing and downstream analysis.

The paper designs and deploys a regulation-compliant infrared heating system for UK field trials, showing effects on wheat phenotypes under climate warming.

The paper examines heat stress responses in diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid wheat genotypes, finding differences in yield reduction, transcriptional responses, and alternative splicing, with NF-YB exon skipping identified in hexaploid wheat.

This study evaluates the yield impact of TaGW2 mutations in wheat, finding increased grain size but no overall yield gain due to reduced grain number.

KCFtools uses k-mer profiles for introgression screening and GWAS without sequence alignment, showing effectiveness in detecting introgressed segments and trait-associated loci in lettuce.

This study develops an optimized Agrobacterium-mediated wheat transformation protocol using GRF4-GIF1, enabling efficient, genotype-independent transformation across multiple wheat cultivars.

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

The paper develops a TILLING platform in Cannabis sativa for mutation discovery and crop improvement, identifying mutations linked to agronomic traits.

This study identifies genomic loci associated with agronomic and grain traits in tef, revealing novel marker-trait associations and retrotransposon effects on grain color and size.

The paper tests whether stigma longevity limits hybrid wheat seed production by examining seed set in male sterile cultivars with varying stigma deterioration onset, finding that stigma receptivity remains stable during the pollination window.

The paper develops a curve fitting method using Python to analyze starch granule size distributions in cereals, finding that mixed distributions best describe wheat and barley, while unimodal distributions apply to maize and rice.

This study reveals a conserved mesophyll cellular patterning in wheat leaves across ploidy levels, suggesting an ancient evolutionary trait in grasses.

This study identifies TaWUS2D as a gene that increases grain number per spikelet by promoting fertile ovaries in wheat through genetic and genomic analyses.

The paper constructs a spatiotemporal atlas of wheat inflorescence development using single-cell omics, identifying cell types, genes, and chromatin regions involved in spikelet and floret formation.

This study identifies TaMYB7-A1 haplotypes that regulate PHS resistance and wheat geographic adaptation through ABA signaling and gene expression mechanisms.

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

The paper reports the chromosome-scale genome assembly of African yam bean using long and short read sequencing combined with Hi-C scaffolding, and annotates 31,614 protein-coding genes.

This study shows modern wheat breeding improved both above- and below-ground traits through synergistic genomic selection.

The paper identifies a SNP in the miR172 binding site of AP2L-D5 in wheat, associated with compact spike morphology and improved agronomic traits.

The paper develops wheat chromosome segment substitution lines to capture genetic variation from progenitor species and assesses their utility for trait localization.

The paper resequences and compares three Indian Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici pathotypes to study their evolution and identify virulence-associated genes.

This study identifies SNPs associated with yellow rust resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat through genome-wide association analysis.

This study examines homoeologous copy number variations in hexaploid wheat, showing that triads represent core genes while dyads and tetrads are dispensable, with subgenome differences linked to post-polyploid diploidization.

The paper assesses allelic diversity of 42 functional genes in East African wheat cultivars to identify beneficial alleles for genetic improvement.

The paper uses BSA-exome-seq to fine-map the ERA8 mutant in wheat to the TaMKK3-A locus, identifying a missense mutation linked to ABA hypersensitive germination.

The paper constructs a co-expression network in hexaploid wheat to analyze meiotic gene expression and copy number, finding balanced homeolog expression and no significant gene loss.

The paper analyzes RNA-Seq data from wheat and related species to show that gene expression during early meiosis is not significantly affected by synapsis, ploidy level, or the Ph1 locus.

This study uses gene editing and mutagenesis to show that TaGW2 homoeologues contribute additively to grain size and weight in wheat, with inter-cultivar differences in their effects.

The paper analyzes the impact of transposable elements on genome structure and evolution in bread wheat, finding conserved TE distribution and chromatin structure across subgenomes.