2025 Publications
Agbemafle W, V Jayasinghe and DC Bassham. 2025. Can autophagy enhance crop resilience to environmental stress? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 380: 20240245.
*Aliu E, Chen, L-C, Lee K, & Wang, K. (2025) IMAGE: INTEGRATE-Mediated Agrobacterium Genome Engineering. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1676008.
*Aliu E, Lee K, Sanath-Kumar R, Youngstrom C, Geadelmann L, Pramanik D, Ji Q, Wang X, & Wang K. (2025). Chromosome Architecture Impacts Virulence and Competitiveness in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58. Science Advances, 11, eadx7408.
*Azanu MK, Lee K, & Wang K. (2025). Optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated seedling leaf transformation across multiple sorghum genotypes. Plant Biotech Journal; 0:1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70438
Bouwmeester, H., Zerbe, P., Peters, R.J., Wang, K., Dong, L. (2025). The role of isoprenoids in the chemical communication between plants and other organisms in their rhizosphere. aBIOTECH, 6(4):587-601.
*Chen, Y.-R., Frei, U.K., Lübberstedt, T. (2025). Multi-trait genomic prediction model with de novo GWAS increased the predictive ability for haploid induction ability and agronomic traits of haploid inducers in maize. Frontiers in Plant Science 16: 1614457. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1614457
Escamilla, D. M., Li, D., Negus, K. L., Kappelmann, K. L., Kusmec, A., Vanous, A. E., Schnable, P. S., Li, X., & Yu, J. (2025). Genomic selection: Essence, applications, and prospects. The Plant Genome, 18, e70053. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70053
*Fakude, M., Chen, Y.-R., Yavuz, R., Murithi, A., Aboobucker, S.I., Frei, U.K., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025). Association mapping of genomic regions influencing haploid frailty (HF) in BS39 and BS39-SHGD lines. Frontiers in Plant Science 16:1646128; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1646128
*Fakude, M., Yavuz, R., Murithi, A., Frei, U.K., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025). Association mapping of genomic regions influencing haploid female fertility (HFF) and haploid male fertility (HMF) in BS39 and BS39-SHGD lines. Theor. Appl. Genet. 138:5.
*Foster, T.L., Frei, U.K., Fakude, M., Krause, M.D., Dutta, S., Tracy, W.F., Resende Jr., M.F.R., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025) Genome-wide association study of haploid male fertility in sweet corn. Theor Appl. Genet. 138:102.
*Higa L, Blank M, Hampson E, Matsuyama J, Wilkes K, Uehara A, Bouwman T, Lee K, WangK, & Muszynski M, Du Z. (2025) Rapid Assessment of CRISPR gRNAs with Optimized Protoplast Transformation in Maize. Plant Cell Reports, 44, 212.
Jie Tang, Hongqing Guo. (2025) Jack of all trades: crosstalk between FERONIA signaling and hormone pathways. Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 76, Issue 7, Pages 1907–1920.
Kan, C., Hao, Y., Sun, M., Li, M., Tan, Z., Dong, L., Liu, X., Zeng, X., Sum, Y., Cao, S., Zhao, Y., Zhou, C., Zhao, X.Y., Lübberstedt, T., Yang, X., & Liu, H. (2025) Polymerization of beneficial plant height QTLs to develop superior lines which can achieving hybrid performance levels. Mol Breeding 45: 26.
Khammona, K., Dermail, A., Chen, Y.-R., Lübberstedt, T., Wanchana, S., Toojinda, T., Arikit, S., & Ruanjaichon, V. (2025) Genes and genetics related to haploid induction in maize. Frontiers in Plant Science16:1634053. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1634053
Kinney, S., Park, T.-C., Clubb, H., Armstrong, P., Lübberstedt, T., & Scott, M.P. (2025) Classification of individual waxy maize kernels using single kernel near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy 79: 1597-1604.
Kudjordjie, E.N., Desmedt, W., Kyndt, T., Nicolaisen, M., Peters, R.J., & Vestergård, M. (2025) Diterpenoid phytoalexins shape rice root microbiomes and their association with root parasitic nematodes, Environ. Microbiol., 27(4):e70084.
*Kumar R, Azanu MK, Lee K, Kang M, Zobrist J, Bùi JT, Wang N, Gordon-Kamm W, Van Eck J, & Wang K. (2025). Comparative Analysis of Agrobacterium-Mediated Maize Seedling Leaf Whorl-Based Transformation Using Abscisic Acid-Induced Bbm/Wus2 Gene Removal in Two Ternary Vector Systems. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 61, 724-737.
Li Z, & Aung K. The study of plasmodesmal biology using proximity labeling technologies. J Exp Bot. 2026 Jan 27;77(3):827-837. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraf239. PMID: 40444702; PMCID: PMC12835822. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf239
Li Z, Thorpe, C, Jiang S, and Aung K (2025) Measuring plasmodesmata-mediated intercellular trafficking using microparticle bombardment in Arabidopsis and crop plants. Current Protocols, 5, e70194.
Malzahn AA, Songstad N, Tripathi L, Okwuonu I, Sithole-Niang I, Runo S, Wagaba H, Kouassi M, Kaeppler H, Gordon-Kamm W, Lee K, Parrott W, Taylor N, Rogers C, Gaffney J, Van Eck J, Veena V. (2025) PlantGENE Report on Panel Discussion: Advancing Plant Biotechnology in Africa. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 61, 483-492.
Malzahn A, Kaeppler H, Gordon-Kamm, W, Lee K, Taylor N, Veena V, Parrott W, & Van Eck J. (2025) PlantGENE: Advancing plant transformation through community engagement. The Plant Journal, 121, e17228.
Murithi, A., Jung, M., Dhugga, K., Lübberstedt, T., Panangipali, G., & Zhengyu, W. (2025) Response of maize transcriptome to infection by maize lethal necrosis. Plants 14: 295.
Nguyen, G.T., Raju, A.R., Schelling, M.A., and D.G. Sashital. (2025) Rapid CRISPR-Cas9 target-strand nicking can provide phage resistance by reducing DNA abundance. Nucleic Acids Res. 53:gkaf900.
Nguyen, G.T., Raju, A.R.., and D.G. Sashital. (2025) Analysis of metal-dependent DNA nicking activities by Cas endonucleases. Methods Enzymol, 712:117-142
Park, T.-C., Silva, P.C.P., Lübberstedt, T., & Scott, M.P. (2025) Beyond the genome: The role of functional markers in contemporary plant breeding. Frontiers in Plant Sci. 16:1637299; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1637299
*Pereira, G., Santos, I., Resende, N., Verzegnazzi, A.L., Frei, U.K., Lima, R., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025) Genotypic variation and association mapping for plant stature and anthesis-silking interval in set of temperate-adapted maize lines developed by DH and SSD methods. Plant Breeding (accepted).
*Pramanik D, Wang K, & Lee K, (2025) CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout in cereal crops. Current Protocols, 5, e70210.
Tang J, V Jayasinghe, Z Li and DC Bassham. 2026. Interplay between autophagy, the unfolded protein response and the cytoplasmic heat stress response during heat stress in maize. BMC Plant Biol 26: 13.
Thawarorit, A., Lübberstedt, T., Dermail, A., Lertrat, K., Ruanjaichon, V., Chankaew, S., & Suriharn, K. (2025). Testcross Analysis of Pl-1 Marker expression and seedling vigor in Thai maize germplasm for doubled haploid breeding applications. Plants 14: 3011.
*Thorpe C, Luo W, Ji Q, Eggenberger AL, Chicowski AS, Xu W, Sandhu R, Lee K, Whitham SA, Qi Y, Wang K, Jiang S. (2025) Enhancing Biolistic Plant Transformation and Genome Editing with a Novel Flow Guiding Barrel. Nature Communications, 16: 5624.
Uberti, A., Santana, A.S., Nikolau, B.J., DeLima, R.O., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025) Molecular breeding approaches for the improvement of oil content and fatty acids composition in exotic-derived maize germplasm. New Phytologist 248: 1920-1939.
*Wei, J., Guo, T., Mu, Q., Alladassi, B.M.E., Mural, R.V., Boyles, R.E., Hoffmann, L., Hayes, C.M., Sigmon, B., Thompson, A.M., Salas-Fernandez, M.G., Rooney, W.L., Kresovich, S., Schnable, J.C., Li, X. and Yu, J. (2025). Genetic and Environmental Patterns Underlying Phenotypic Plasticity in Flowering Time and Plant Height in Sorghum. Plant, Cell & Environment, 48: 2727-2738.
*Yavuz, R., Foster, T.L., Frei, U.K., Resende Jr., M.F.R., Tracy, W.F., & Lübberstedt, T., (2025) R-nj based haploid selection in sweet corn. Maydica 7: 1-20.
*Yavuz, R., Wang, H., Fakude, M., Dermail, A., Frei, U.K., Liu, P., & Lübberstedt, T. (2025) Genetic variation and heritability of haploid frailty in maize. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1572901
*Zhang, M., Li, X., Wang, X., Jiang, S., Zhang, J.-L., Sun, M., Zhou, Z., Zhang, J., Li, M., Lv, Y., Qi, E., Tian, Z., Zhu, H., Zhang, X., Zhao, X.Y., Xu, C., Lübberstedt, T., Zhang, X.S., Yang, X., Zhou, C., & Liu, H. (2024) Modulation of Anthocyanin and Lignin Homeostasis by GTP Cyclohydrolase1 in maize. Plant Biotech J 23: 2449-2463.
Zhou J, A Gilliard, J Tung, SP Dinesh-Kumar , SA Whitham, BJ Baker, & KS Ling (2025) The N gene protects tomato plants from tomato brown rugose fruit virus infection. Plant Biotechnol J, 23(10): 4339-4349.
Zunjare, R., Lübberstedt, T., Ravikiran, K.T., Hossain, F., Muthusamy, V., & Choudari, M. (2025) Enroute to climate resilient crops: QTL mapping and beyond. Book chapter in Custom‐Designed Crop Breeding: Improved Traits, Volume 2; Editor(s): Shri Mohan Jain, Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Sudhir K. Sopory, Muneeb Ahmad Wani; Chapter 8, pages 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394192595.ch08