Gary J Muehlbauer

gary muehlbauer
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department Head, Agronomy and Plant Genetics
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612-625-7849
411 Borlaug Hall
Muehlbauer Lab Website
Education

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

Bethke, G., Y. Huang, G. Hensel, S. Wyant, X. Li, S. Shin, S. Heinen, M.B. Quin, S. McCormick, P. Morrell, Y. Dong, S. Salvi, J. Kumlehn, F. Berthiller, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2023. UGT13248 confers type II resistance to Fusarium graminearum in barley. Plant Physiol. 193:2691-2710. doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad467.

Havill, J.S., B.J. Classen, D.H. Gent, J.A. Henning, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2023. Identification of quantitative trait loci involved in R1-mediated resistance to powdery mildew and sex determination in hop (Humulus lupulus L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 136:154. doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04399-7.

Virdi, K.S., S. Sreekanta, A. Dobbels, A. Haaning, D. Jarquin, R.M. Stupar, A.J. Lorenz, and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2023. Branch angle and leaflet shape are associated with canopy coverage in soybean. The Plant Genome doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20304.

Wonneberger, R., M. Schreiber, A. Haaning, M. Coulter, G.J. Muehlbauer*, R. Waugh*, and N. Stein*. 2023. Characterization of the European two-rowed spring barley germplasm reveals a major haplotype switch on chromosome 5H. Theor. Appl. Genet 136:174. doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04418-7. *indicates co-corresponding authors.

Huang, Y., L. Yin, A.H. Sallam, S. Heinen, L. Li, K. Beaubien, R. Dill-Macky, Y. Dong, B.J. Steffenson, K.P. Smith and G.J. Muehlbauer. 2021. Genetic dissection of a pericentromeric region of barley chromosome 6H associated with Fusarium head blight, grain protein content and agronomic traits. Theor. Appl. Genet. 134:3963-3981. doi.org/10.1007/s00122-021-03941-9.

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/Genetics4:1197-1212. doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400612.

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., 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.

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.

Russell, J., M. Mascher, I.K. Dawson, S. Kyriakidis, C. Calixto, F. Freund, M. Bayer, I. Milne, T. Marshall-Griffiths, S. Heinen, A. Hofstad, R. Sharma, A. Himmelbach, M. Knauft, M. van Zonneveld, J.W.S. Brown, K. Schmid, B. Kilian, G.J. Muehlbauer*, N. Stein*, and Robbie Waugh*. 2016. Adaptation of barley to different environments revealed in the exomes of a range-wide collection of landraces and wild relatives. Nature Genetics 48:1024-1030. *Joint corresponding authors

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