Jitender Cheema

This study analyzes over 300 plant mitochondrial genomes to show that gene content is conserved but structural complexity varies, driven by repeat proliferation and recombination rather than intergenomic DNA transfer.

The paper introduces GBZ-base and GAF-base, indexed pangenome file formats for efficient subgraph and alignment extraction.

460 haplotypes from 230 genomes, selected to maximize common-variant coverage, capture 99.43% of All of Us common small variants and halve structurally unreliable regions and base errors versus HPRC1.

The paper analyzes chromosome 22q11.2 haplotypes to show how structural variations in specific regions correlate with microdeletion and inversion risks across populations.

The paper uses long-read sequencing to identify pathogenic variants in autism cases, finding three pathogenic mutations and nine candidate structural variants missed by short-read sequencing.

The paper shows how SPT represses CYCLIN-P3;1 and CYCLIN-P3;2 to control cell proliferation and division orientation, ensuring radial symmetry in Arabidopsis thaliana style development.

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

The study analyzes genetic diversity of Phakopsora pachyrhizi to determine its origin in the USA, finding multiple incursions and limited genetic diversity in Brazil.

This paper uses population genomics to identify QTLs and SNPs associated with agronomic traits in lablab, aiming to improve its productivity for forage crops in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The paper identifies G-quadruplex structures in cold-adapted plants, showing they enhance mRNA stability and improve cold response.

The paper investigates how mRNA structure affects miRNA cleavage in vivo using a new method in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that target site unfolding and a downstream motif determine cleavage efficiency.

Grass pea, a diploid legume with a 6.3 Gbp genome, gets two draft assemblies, one short-read and one Nanopore, plus 33,819 annotated genes.

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