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Dr. Bode Olukolu: Recent Publications

  1. Samayoa LF, Olukolu BA, Yang CJ, Chen Q, Stetter MG, York AM, Sanchez-Gonzalez JDJ, Glaubitz JC, Bradbury PJ, Romay MC, Sun Q, Yang J, Ross-Ibarra J, Buckler ES, Doebley JF, Holland JB (2021) Domestication Reshaped the Genetic Basis of Inbreeding Depression in a Maize Landrace Compared to its Wild Relative, Teosinte. PLoS Genetics. 17 (12), e1009797
  2. Chen Q, Samayoa LF, Yang CJ, Olukolu BA, York AM, Sanchez-Gonzalez JDJ, Xue W, Glaubitz JC, Bradbury PJ, Romay MC, Sun Q, Buckler ES, Holland JB, and Doebley JF (2021) A conserved genetic architecture among populations of the maize progenitor, teosinte, was radically altered by domestication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(43). 10.1073/pnas.2112970118
  3. Kuster R**, Yencho GC, and Olukolu BA (2021).  ngsComposer: An automated pipeline for empirically based NGS data quality filtering.  Briefings in Bioinformatics. Brief Bioinform. bbab092. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbab092
  4. Oloka BM, Pereira G, Amankwaah A., Mollinari M, Pecota KV, Olukolu BA, Zeng ZB, and Yencho GC (2021) Discovery of a major QTL for root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) resistance in cultivated sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas). Theor Appl Genet. doi: 10.1007/s00122-021-03797-z
  5. Sapkota S, Boggess SL, Trigiano RN, Klingeman WE, Hadziabdic D, Coyle DR, Olukolu BA, Kuster RD, Nowicki M (2021) Microsatellite Loci Reveal Genetic Diversity of Asian Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana) in the Species Native Range and in the North American Cultivars. Life 2021, 11, 531. doi.org/10.3390/life11060531
  6. Zhou C, Olukolu BA et al. (2020) Assembly of whole-chromosome pseudomolecules for polyploid plant genomes using outbred mapping populations. Nat Genet 52, 1256–1264.
  7. Bararyenya A, Olukolu BA, Tukamuhabwa P, Grüneberg WJ, Ekaya W, Low J, Ochwo-Ssemakula M, Odong TL, Talwana H, Badji A, Kyalo M, Nasser Y, Gemenet D, Kitavi M, Mwanga ROM (2020) Genome-wide association study identified candidate genes controlling continuous storage root formation and bulking in hexaploidy sweetpotato. BMC Plant Biol. 20(1):3.
  8. Mollinari M, Olukolu BA, Pereira GDS, Khan A, Gemenet D, Yencho GC, Zeng ZB (2020) Unraveling the Hexaploid Sweetpotato Inheritance Using Ultra-Dense Multilocus Mapping. G3. 10(1):281-292.
  9. Gemenet DC, Pereira G, De Boeck B, Wood JC, Mollinari M, Olukolu BA, Diaz F; Mosquera V; Ssali RT, David M, Kitavi MN, Burgos G, Felde TZ, Ghislain M, Carey E, Swanckaert J, Coin LJM, Fei Z, Hamilton JP, Yada B, Yencho GC, Zeng ZB, Mwanga ROM, Khan A, Gruneberg WJ, Buell CR (2020) Quantitative trait loci and differential gene expression analyses reveal the genetic basis for negatively-associated β-carotene and starch content in hexaploid sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Theor Appl Genet. 133(1):23-36.
  10. Yang CJ, Samayoa LF, Bradbury PJ, Olukolu BA, Xue W, York AM, Tuholski MR, Wang W, Daskalska LL, Neumeyer MA, Sanchez-Gonzalez JDJ, Romay MC, Glaubitz JC, Sun Q, Buckler ES, Holland JB, Doebley JF (2019) The evolutionary genetics of maize domestication: heritabilities, genetic correlations, constraint and selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116(12):5643-5652.
  11. Wu S, Lau KH, Cao Q, Hamilton JP, Sun H, Zhou C, Eserman L, Gemenet D, Olukolu BA, Wang H, Crisovan E, Godden GT, Jiao C, Wang X, Kitavi M, Manrique-Carpintero N, Vaillancourt B, Wiegert-Rininger K, Yang X, Bao K, Schaff J, Kreuze J, Gruneberg W, Khan A, Ghislain M, Ma D, Jiang J, Mwanga ROM, Leebens-Mack J, Coin LJM, Yencho GC, Buell CR, Fei Z. (2018) Genome sequences of two diploid wild relatives of cultivated sweetpotato reveal targets for genetic improvement. Nat Commun. 9(1):4580.
  12. Xiaodong X*, Olukolu BA*, Yang Q, Balint-Kurti, PJ (2018) Identification of a locus in maize controlling response to a host-selective toxin derived from Cochliobolus heterostrophus, causal agent of Southern Leaf Blight. Theor Appl Genet. 131(12):2601-2612.
  13. Wadl PA, Olukolu BA, Branham SE, Jarret RL, Yencho GC, Jackson DM (2018) Genetic diversity and population structure of the USDA sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) germplasm collection using GBSpoly. Front Plant Sci. 9:1166.