Mohammad Pourkheirandish

Discovery and fine mapping of Rph28: a new gene conferring resistance to Puccinia hordei from wild barley.

M Mehnaz, P Dracatos, A Pham, T March, A Maurer, K Pillen, K Forrest, T Kulkarni, M Pourkheirandish, RF Park, D Singh

Journal article  |  2021  |  Theoretical and Applied Genetics: international journal of plant breeding research

KEY MESSAGE: A new gene Rph28 conferring resistance to barley leaf rust was discovered and fine-mapped on chromosome 5H from wild ..

Global Role of Crop Genomics in the Face of Climate Change

Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Agnieszka A Golicz, Prem L Bhalla, Mohan B Singh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

The development of climate change resilient crops is necessary if we are to meet the challenge of feeding the growing world's popu..

Molecular genetics of leaf rust resistance in wheat and barley

Hoan X Dinh, Davinder Singh, Sambasivam Periyannan, Robert F Park, Mohammad Pourkheirandish

Journal article  |  2020  |  Theoretical and Applied Genetics: international journal of plant breeding research

The demand for cereal grains as a main source of energy continues to increase due to the rapid increase in world population. The l..

Wheat domestication in light of haplotype analyses of the Brittle rachis 1 genes (BTR1-A and BTR1-B)

Moran Nave, Raz Avni, Esra Cakir, Vitaly Portnoy, Hanan Sela, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Hakan Ozkan, Iago Hale, Takao Komatsuda, Jan Dvorak, Assaf Distelfeld

Journal article  |  2019  |  Plant Science

Wheat domestication was a milestone in the rise of agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent. As opposed to the freely dispersing..

miR172 downregulates the translation of cleistogamy 1 in barley

Nadia Anwar, Masaru Ohta, Takayuki Yazawa, Yutaka Sato, Chao Li, Akemi Tagiri, Mari Sakuma, Thomas Nussbaumer, Phil Bregitzer, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Jianzhong Wu, Takao Komatsuda

Journal article  |  2018  |  Annals of Botany

Background and Aims Floret opening in barley is induced by the swelling of the lodicule, a trait under the control of the cleistog..

Elucidation of the origin of 'agriocrithon' based on domestication genes questions the hypothesis that Tibet is one of the centers of barley domestication

Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Jianzhong Wu, Shun Sakuma, Frank R Blattner, Takao Komatsuda

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Plant Journal

Wild barley forms a two-rowed spike with a brittle rachis whereas domesticated barley has two- or six-rowed spikes with a tough ra..

Genome-wide association studies provide insights on genetic architecture of resistance to leaf rust in a worldwide barley collection

D Singh, LA Ziems, PM Dracatos, M Pourkheirandish, S Tshewang, P Czembor, S German, RA Fowler, L Snyman, GJ Platz, RF Park

Journal article  |  2018  |  Molecular Breeding

We assembled an international barley panel comprising 282 entries from 26 countries with various levels of field resistance to lea..

On the Origin of the Non-brittle Rachis Trait of Domesticated Einkorn Wheat

Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Fei Dai, Shun Sakuma, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Assaf Distelfeld, George Willcox, Taihachi Kawahara, Takashi Matsumoto, Benjamin Kilian, Takao Komatsuda

Journal article  |  2018  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Einkorn and emmer wheat together with barley were among the first cereals domesticated by humans more than 10,000 years ago, long ..

A GDSL-motif esterase/acyltransferase/lipase is responsible for leaf water retention in barley

Chao Li, Guoxiong Chen, Kohei Mishina, Naoki Yamaji, Jian Feng Ma, Fumiko Yukuhiro, Akemi Tagiri, Cheng Liu, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Nadia Anwar, Masaru Ohta, Pengshan Zhao, Udda Lundqvist, Xinrong Li, Takao Komatsuda

Journal article  |  2017  |  Plant Direct

The hydrophobic cuticle covers the surface of the most aerial organs of land plants. The barley mutant eceriferum‐zv (cer‐zv), whi..

Quantitative Trait Loci and Maternal Effects Affecting the Strong Grain Dormancy of Wild Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp spontaneum)

Shingo Nakamura, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Hiromi Morishige, Mohammad Sameri, Kazuhiro Sato, Takao Komatsuda

Journal article  |  2017  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) has strong grain dormancy, a trait that may enhance its survival in non-cultivated e..