Ph.D.: Minnesota (1994)
Year Appointed: 1997
Rank: Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Areas of Interest
Wheat and Barley Molecular Genetics
Research
My position is focused on wheat and barley molecular genetics. One area of my research is directed towards Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat and barley. Another research area is focused on developing and integrating genomics resources into barley breeding programs. Other areas involve identifying genetic variation in wild barleys for use in germplasm enhancement, and to genetically characterize a collection of barley tillering mutants.
Select Publications
Haaning, A.M., K.P. Smith, G.L. Brown-Guedira, S. Chao, P. Tyagi, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2020. Natural genetic variation underlying tiller development in barley (Hordeum vulgare L). Genes/Genomes/Genetics 4:1197-1212; doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400612.
Monat, C., S. Padmarasu, T. Lux, T. Wicker, H. Gundlach, A. Himmelbach, J. Ens, C. Li, G. Muehlbauer, A. Schulman, R. Waugh, I. Braumann, C. Pozniak, U. Scholz, K. Mayer, M. Spannagl, N. Stein, and M. Mascher. 2019. TRITEX: chromosome-scale sequence assembly of Triticeae genomes with open-source tools. Genome Biology 20:284
Knauer, S., M. Javelle, L. Li, X. Li, X. Ma, K. Wimalanathan, S. Kumari, R. Johnston, S. Leiboff, R. Meeley, P.S. Schnable, D. Ware, C. Lawrence-Dill, J. Yu, G.J. Muehlbauer, M.J. Scanlon and M.C.P. Timmermans. 2019. Natural variation in molecular circuitries underlying maize shoot meristem function drives key architectural traits. Genome Research doi:10.1101/gr.250878.119.
Nice, L., Y. Huang, B.J. Steffenson, P. Schwarz, A. Hofstad, K.P. Smith, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2019. Mapping malting quality and yield characteristics in a North American 2-rowed malting barley × wild barley advanced backcross population. Mol. Breeding 39:121; doi: 10.1007/s11032-019-1030-3.
Lei, L., A.M. Poets, C. Liu, S.R. Wyant, P.J. Hoffman, C.K. Carter, R.M. Trantow, X. Li, G.J. Muehlbauer, F. Katagiri and P.L. Morrell. 2019. Discovery of barley gene candidates for low temperature and drought tolerance via environmental association approaches. Genes/Genomes/Genetics 9:3423-3438; doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400401.
Hemshrot, A., A.M. Poets, P. Tyagi, L. Lei, C. Carter, C.N. Hirsch, L. Li, G. Brown-Guedira, P.L. Morrell, G.J. Muehlbauer and K.P. Smith. 2019. Development of a multi-parent population for genetic mapping and allele discovery in six-row barley. Genetics 213:595-613; doi: 10.1534/genetics.119.302046.
Gutierrez-Gonzalez, J., M. Mascher, J. Poland and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2019. Dense genotyping-by-sequencing linkage maps of two Synthetic W7984 × Opata reference populations provide insights into wheat structural diversity. Scientific Reports 9:1793.
Okagaki, R.J., S. Dukowic-Schulze, W.B. Eggleston and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2018. A critical assessment of 60 years of maize intragenic recombination. Frontiers in Plant Science doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01560
Huang, Y., M. Haas, S. Heinen, B.J. Steffenson, K.P. Smith, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2018. QTL Mapping of Fusarium head blight and correlated agromorphological traits in an elite barley cultivar Rasmusson. Frontiers in Plant Science doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01260
Liu, S., J.C. Schnable, A. Ott, C-T. Yeh, N.M. Springer, J. Yu, G. Muehlbauer, M.C.P. Timmermans, M.J. Scanlon, and P.S. Schnable. 2018. Intragenic meiotic crossovers exhibit preference for syntenic genes and can generate novel alleles with transgressive expression levels. Mol. Bio. Evol. doi: org/10.1093/molbev/msy174.
International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2018. Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding through a fully annotated reference genome. Science doi: 10.1126/science.aar7191.
Okagaki, R.J., A. Haaning, H. Bilgic, S. Heinen, A. Druka, M. Bauer, R. Waugh and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2018. ELIGULUM-A gene controls leaf patterning and shoot branching in barley. Plant Physiology 176:2750-2760.
Sallam, A., P. Tyagi, G. Brown-Guedira, G.J. Muehlbauer, A. Hulse, and B.J. Steffenson. 2017. Genome-wide association mapping of stem rust resistance in Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum. Genes/Genomes/Genetics 7:3491-3507.
Chen, L., P. Zhang, Y. Fan, Q. Lu, Q. Li, J. Yan, G.J. Muehlbauer, P.S. Schnable, M. Dai, and L. Li. 2017. Circular RNAs mediated by transposons are associated with transcriptomic and phenotypic variation. New Phytology 217:1292-1306.
Li, X., H. Michlmayr, W. Schweiger, A. Malachova, S. Shin, Y. Huang, Y. Dong, G. Wiesenberger, S. McCormick, M. Lemmens, P. Fruhmann, C. Hametner, F. Berthiller, G. Adam and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2017. A barley UDP-glucosyltransferase inactivates nivalenol and provides Fusarium head blight resistance in transgenic wheat. J. Exp. Bot. 68:2187-2197.
Dobbels, A.A., J.-M. Michno, B.W. Campbell, K.S. Virdi, G.J. Muehlbauer, S.L. Naeve, and R.M. Stupar. 2017. An induced chromosomal translocation in soybean disrupts a KAS 1 ortholog and is associated with a high sucrose and low oil seed phenotype. Genes/Genomes/Genetics 7:1215-1223.
Beier, S., A. Himmelbach, C. Colmsee, X-Q. Zhang, R. Barrero, Q. Zhang, L. Li, M. Bayer, D. Bolser, S. Taudien, M. Groth, M. Felder, A. Hastie, H. Šimková, H. Stańková, J. Vrána, S. Chan, M. Muñoz-Amatriaín, R. Ounit, S. Wanamaker, T. Schmutzer, L. Aliyeva-Schnorr, S. Grasso, J. Tanskanen, D. Sampath, D. Heavens, S. Cao, B. Chapman, F. Dai, Y. Han, S. Li, J. McCooke, C. Tan, S. Wang, S. Yin, G. Zhou, J.A. Poland, M. Bellgard, A. Houben, J. Doležel, S. Ayling, S. Lonardi, P. Langridge, G.J. Muehlbauer, P. Kersey, M.D. Clark, M. Caccamo, A.H. Schulman, M. Platzer, T.J. Close, M. Hansson, G. Zhang, I. Braumann, C. Li, R. Waugh, U. Scholz, N. Stein and M. Mascher. 2017. Construction of the map-based reference sequence of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genome. Scientific Data 4:170044.
Mascher, M., H. Gundlach, A. Himmelbach, S. Beier, S. Twardziok, T. Wicker, V. Radchuk, C. Dockter, P. Hedley, J. Russell, M. Bayer, L. Ramsay, P. Flores, H. Liu, G. Haberer, X-Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang, R. Barrero, L. Li, S. Taudien, M. Groth, M. Felder, A. Hastie, H. Šimková, H. Stańková, J. Vrána, S. Chan, M. Muñoz-Amatriaín, R. Ounit, S. Wanamaker, D. Bolser, C. Colmsee, T. Schmutzer, L. Aliyeva-Schnorr, S. Grasso, J. Tanskanen, A. Chailyan, D. Sampath, D. Heavens, S. Cao, B. Chapman, F. Dai, Y. Han, S. Li, J. McCooke, C. Tan, P. Wang, S. Wang, S. Yin, G. Zhou, J.A. Poland, M. Bellgard, L. Borisjuk, A. Houben, J. Doležel, S. Ayling, S. Lonardi, P. Kersey, P. Langridge, G.J. Muehlbauer, M.D. Clark, M. Caccamo, A.H. Schulman, K.F.X. Mayer, M. Platzer, T.J. Close, U. Scholz, M. Hansson, G. Zhang, I. Braumann, M. Spannagl, C. Li, R. Waugh and N. Stein. 2017. A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome. Nature 544:427-433.
Nice, L.M., B.J. Steffenson, T. Blake, R. Horsley, K.P. Smith and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2017. Mapping agronomic traits in a wild barley advanced backcross nested association mapping (AB-NAM) population. Crop Science 57:1-12.
Burlakoti, R., G. Sanjaya, S. Chao, K. Smith, R. Horsley, B. Cooper, G. Muehlbauer and S. Neate. 2017. Genome-wide association study of spot form of net blotch resistance in the upper Midwest barley breeding programs. Phytopathology 107:100-108.