
Ph.D.: Cornell (1992)
Year Appointed: 2001
Rank: Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS)
Areas of Interest
Research; wheat and oat genetics and genomics
Research
- Genome analysis of disease resistance and susceptibility in wheat and oats.
- Gene editing for cool season grass crop improvement.
- Functional genomics research with the model grass Brachypodium distachyon.
- Coordination of regional spring wheat performance and Fusarium head blight nurseries.
Select Publications
Annual reports for the wheat nursery programs that I coordinate can be viewed at the website http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG2/germplasm.shtml#wheat
Garvin, D.F. and Dykes, L. 2021. Evaluating milling and baking quality associated with a Fusarium Head Blight resistance-enhancing genome deletion in wheat. Cereal Research Communications. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42976-020-00122-0
Hu, H., Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J.J., Liu, X., Yeats, T.H., Garvin, D.F., Hoekenga, O.A., Sorrells, M.E., Gore, M.A., and Jannink, J. 2020. Heritable gene expression patterns correlate with metabolic seed content in developing hexaploid oat seeds. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18:1211-1222.
Onda, Y., Inoue, K., Sawada, Y., Shimizu, M., Takahagi, K., Uehara-Yamaguchi, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Garvin, D.F., and Mochida, K. 2019. Genetic variation for seed metabolite levels in Brachypodium distachyon. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20:2348. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/9/2348.
Della Coletta, R., Hirsch, C.N, Rouse, M.N., Lorenz, A., and Garvin, D.F. 2019. Genomic dissection of nonhost resistance to wheat stem rust in Brachypodium distachyon. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32:392-400.
Kolmer, J.A., Garvin, D.F., Hayden, M., and Spielmeyer, W. 2018. Adult plant leaf rust resistance derived from the wheat landrace cultivar Americano 44d is conditioned by interaction of three QTL. Euphytica 214:59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-018-2141-3.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J.J., Garvin, D.F. 2017. De novo transcriptome assembly in polyploid species. In: Gasparis, S. Oat: Methods and Protocols. Vol 1536. New York, NY: Springer. p. 209-221.
Jiang, Y., Wang, X., Yu, X., Zhao, X., Luo, N., Pei, Z., Liu, H., Garvin, D.F. 2017. Quantitative trait loci associated with drought tolerance in Brachypodium distachyon. Frontiers in Plant Science 8:1-11.
Woods, D., Bednarek, R., Bouche, F., Gordon, S., Vogel, J., Garvin, D.F., Amasino, R. 2017. Genetic architecture of flowering time variation in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Physiology 173:269-279.
Cass, C.L., Lavell, A.A., Santoro, N., Foster, C.E., Karlen, S.D., Smith, R.A., Ralph, J., Garvin, D.F., and Sedbrook, J.C. 2016. Cell wall composition and biomass recalcitrance differences within a set of Brachypodium distachyon inbred lines. Frontiers in Plant Science 7:708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00708
Des Marais, D.L., Razzaque, S., Hernandez, K.M., Garvin, D.F., and Juenger, T.E. 2016. Quantitative trait loci associated with natural diversity in water-use efficiency and response to soil drying in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Science 251:2-11.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J.J. and Garvin, D.F. 2016. Subgenome-specific assembly of vitamin E biosynthesis genes and expression patterns during seed development provide insight into the evolution of the oat genome. Plant Biotechnology Journal 14:2147-2157.
Garvin, D.F. 2015. Brachypodium distachyon genetic resources. In Vogel, J.P. (ed.): Genetics and genomics of Brachypodium. Springer International, Switzerland.
Garvin, D.F., Porter, H., Blankenheim, Z.J., Chao, S., and Dill-Macky, R. 2015. A spontaneous segmental deletion from chromosome arm 3DL enhances Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat. Genome 58:479-488.
Van Eck, J. and Garvin, D.F. 2015. Enhancement of beta-carotene content in plants. U.S. Patent 9,115,338.
Zhong, S., Ali, S., Leng, Y., Wang, R., Garvin, D.F. 2015. Brachypodium distachyon-Cochliobolus sativus pathosystem is a new model for studying plant-fungal interactions in cereal crops. Phytopathology 105:482-489.
Catalan, P., Chalhoub, B., Chochois, V., Garvin, D.F., Hasterok, R., Manzaneda, A.J., Mur, L.A., Pecchioni, N., Rasmussen, S., Vogel, J.P., and Voxeur, A. 2014. Update on the genomics and basic biology of Brachypodium: International Brachypodium Initiative (IBI). Trends in Plant Science 19:414-418.
Faris, J.D., Zhang, Z., Garvin, D.F., and Xu, S.S. 2014. Molecular and comparative mapping of genes governing spike compactness inherited from wild emmer wheat. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 289:641-651.
Gordon, S.P., Priest, H., Des Marais, D., Schackwitz, W., Figueroa, M., Martin, J., Bragg, J., Tyler, L., Lee, C., Bryant, D., Wang, W., Messing, J., Manzaneda, A., Barry, K., Garvin, D.F., Budak, H., Tuna, M., Mitchell-Olds, T., Pfender, W.F., Juenger, T., Mockler, T., and Vogel, J.P. 2014. Genome diversity in Brachypodium distachyon: deep sequencing of highly diverse inbred lines. Plant Journal 79:361-374.
Graybosch, R., Bockleman, H.E., Garland-Campbell, K.A., Garvin, D.F., and Regassa, T. 2014. Wheat. In Smith, S., Diers, B., and Carver, B. (eds.): Yield gains in major U.S. field crops. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI.
Figueroa, M., Alderman, S., Garvin, D.F., and Pfender, W.F. 2013. Infection of Brachypodium distachyon by formae speciales of Puccinia graminis: early infection events and host-pathogen incompatibility. PLoS ONE 8:e56857.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J.J., Tu, Z.J., and Garvin, D.F. 2013. Analysis and annotation of the hexaploid oat seed transcriptome. BMC Genomics 14:471.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J. J., Wise, M.L., and Garvin, D.F. 2013. A developmental profile of tocol accumulation in oat seeds. Journal of Cereal Science 57:79-83.
Jeong, D.-H., Schmidt, S.A., Rymarquis, L.A., Park, S., Ganssmann, M., German, M.A., Accerbi, M., Zhai, J., DePaoli, E., Fahlgren, N., Fox, S.A., Garvin, D.F., Mockler, T.C., Carrington, J.C., Meyers, B.C., and Green, P.J. 2013. Parallel analysis of RNA ends enhances global investigation of microRNAs and target RNAs of Brachypodium distachyon. Genome Biology 14: R145.
Li, L., Garvin, D.F., Lu, S., Vrebalov, J., and O’Halloran, D.M. 2012. The Or gene and its use in manipulating carotenoid content and composition in plants and other organisms. U.S. Patent 8,138,391.
Garvin, D.F., Hareland, G., Gregoire, B.R., and Finley, J.W. 2011. Impact of wheat grain selenium content variation on milling and bread baking. Cereal Chemistry 88:195-200.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J.J. and Garvin, D.F. 2011. Reference genome-directed resolution of homologous and homeologous relationships within and between different oat linkage maps. The Plant Genome 4:178-190.