2025
Price, J.H., Guttieri, M.J., Nyine, M., & Akhunov, E. (2025). Development and characterization of a wild emmer wheat backcross introgression population for hard winter wheat improvement. The Plant Genome, 18(3), e70104. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70104
Wang, W., Pan, Q., Tian, B., Yu, Z., Davidson, D., Bai, G., Akhunova, A., Trick, H., & Akhunov, E. (2025). Correction: Non-additive dosage-dependent effects of TaGS3 gene editing on grain size and weight in wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 138(9), 217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-04827-w pdf
Erima, S., Nyine, M., Ssemakula, M.O., Tusiime, G., Amponsah, E., Akhunov, E., Akhunova, A., Mukasa, S.B., Otim, M.H., Odong, T.L., Nkuboye, A., Candiru, A., & Paparu, P. (2025). Pathogenic and genetic diversity of Sclerotium rolfsii, the causal agent of Southern blight of common bean in Uganda. bioRxiv, (2025.08), 15.670461. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.15.670461 pdf
Tessele, A., Morris, G., Akhunov, E., Johnson, B., Clinesmith, M., & Fritz, A. (2025). Interchromosomal Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis Reveals Strong Indications of Sign Epistasis in Wheat Breeding Families. bioRxiv, (2025.05)16.654524. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.16.65452 pdf
Nyine, M., Davidson, D., Adhikari, E., Clinesmith, M., Wang, H., Akhunova, A., Fritz, A., & Akhunov, E. (2025). Genomic signals of ecogeographic adaptation in a wild relative are associated with improved wheat performance under drought stress. Genome Biology, 26 (35). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03500-1
Wang, W., Pan, Q., Tian, B., Yu, Z., Davidson, D., Bai, G., Akhunova, A., Trick, H., & Akhunov, E. (2025). Non-additive dosage-dependent effects of TaGS3 gene editing on grain size and weight in wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 138(2), 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-04827-w pdf
Price, J. H., Guttieri, M. J., & Stutz, S. (2025). Random forest regression to predict Farinograph traits from GlutoPeak output in wheat wild relative backcross lines. Cereal Chemistry, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/cche.10860 pdf
Meeting Abstracts/Presentations
Akhunov, E. (2025 Sept 25) Landscape of structural variation in the wheat genome: functional and phenotypic consequences. In M. Macceferri & C. Pozniak (Chairs), Decoding and Leveraging the Durum Wheat Pangenome [Oral Presentation] From Seed to Pasta Conference, September 24-27, 2025, Bari, Italy.
Yu, Z., Akhunov, E., Yunusbaev, U., Akhunova, A., Flores Romero, M., Wu, S., Davidson, D., Bastian, S., Trick, H.N., Lee, H., Fritz, A., Tilley, M., Bai, G., Islam, S., & Li, Y. (2025 Sept. 25) CRISPR-based editing of the ω-and γ-gliadin gene clusters reduces wheat immunoreactivity without affecting grain protein quality. In P. Galeffi & G. del Signore (Chairs), Carlotta Award [Winner Presentation] From Seed to Pasta Conference, Bari, Italy.
Akhunov, E. (2025 June 19). Global genomic landscape of wheat-wheat rust interactions. In G. I. MacInnes & S. Kumar (Chairs), Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding for Resistance II [Oral Presentation] 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Zurn J.D., Yunusbaev, U., Guo, Y., He, F., Wang, W., Salcedo, A., Fernadez De Soto, M., Fellers,J. Molnár, I., Doležel, J., Xu, S., Akhunova, A., Trick, H.N., Rouse, M.N., & Akhunov, E. (2025 June 17). A protein kinase fusion gene form Aegilops speltoides provides broad resistance against wheat stem rust. In H. Chawla & J. Gill (Chairs), Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding for Resistance [Oral Presentation] 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Sahin, B., Zurn, J., He, Fei, Akhunova, A., Chen, X., & Akhunov, E. (2025 March 3). Genome-Wide Association Study of Stripe Rust Resistance in a Diverse Spring Wheat Panel [Poster]. McFadden Symposium, Lincoln, NE.
Romero Campos, G., Davidson, D., Fritz, A., Nyine, M., & Akhunov, E. (2025 March 3). Yield prediction in wheat - Aegilops tauschii introgression germplasm using 3D-CNN and spatio-temporal features from multi-environment RGB images [Poster]. McFadden Symposium, Lincoln, NE.
Stelling, N., Osae, Davidson, D., Winnie, S., Fritz, A., Nyine, M., & Akhunov, E. (2025 Jan.10). Climate Adaptative Trait Discovery in Wheat – Aegilops tauschii Introgression Lines [Poster]. Plant and Animal Genome 32, San Diego, CA. https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/abstract/11d52799fbee2e951df7857ea495e4d2
Yu, Z., Akhunova, A., Bai, G., Trick, H., & Akhunov, E. (2025 Jan. 11). Phenotypic effects of virus-based multiplexed editing in the cis-regulatory regions of GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR 4 in wheat [Poster]. Plant and Animal Genome 32, San Diego, CA. https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/abstract/11d52799fbee2e951df7857ea4866f53
Zurn, J.D., Yunusbaev, U., Guo, Y., He, F., Wang, W., Salcedo, A., Fernandez De Soto, M., Fellers, J., Molnar, I., Dolezel, J., Xu, S., Akhunova, A., Trick, H.N., Rouse, M.N., & Akhunov, E. (2025 Jan. 11). Impact of Sr39 Allelic Diversity on Resistance Against Wheat Stem Rust [Poster]. Plant and Animal Genome 32, San Diego, CA. https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/abstract/11d52799fbee2e951df7857ea4862624
Akhunov, E., Zurn, J.D., Yunusbaev, U., Guo, Y., He, F., Wang, W., Salcedo, A., Fernandez De Soto, M., Fellers, J., Molnar, I., Dolezel, J., Xu, S., Akhunova, A., Trick, H.N., & Rouse, M.N. (2025 Jan. 11) A Protein Kinase and Transcription Factor Fusion Gene Provides Broad-Spectrum Resistance Against Puccinia graminis. In M. Mascher & A. Peters Haugrud (Chairs), Triticeae Genetics and Genomics, Session 1: Progress in structural and functional genomics [Speaker] Plant and Animal Genome 32, San Diego, CA. https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/event/aae72bed-07c3-49f5-bf69-6ba9332edae1
Akhunov, E. Yu, Z., Ingram, T.W., Akhunova, A., Moscou, M., & Rouse, M.N. (2025 Jan. 14) Wheat Genome Editing: From Gene Discovery to Trait Engineering. In R. Toberosa (Chair), Systems Biology of the Crop QTLom [Speaker] Plant and Animal Genome 32, January 10-15, 2025, San Diego, CA. https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/event/ccb7e3a674d26e5273e1670285c95aa5