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Kirby T. Nilsen
Researcher at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Publications - 25
Citations - 2836
Kirby T. Nilsen is an academic researcher from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Biology. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 21 publications receiving 1703 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirby T. Nilsen include University of Saskatchewan.
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Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome
Rudi Appels,Rudi Appels,Kellye Eversole,Nils Stein,Nils Stein,Catherine Feuillet,Beat Keller,Jane Rogers,Curtis J. Pozniak,Frédéric Choulet,Assaf Distelfeld,Jesse Poland,Gil Ronen,Andrew G. Sharpe,Omer Barad,Kobi Baruch,Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère,Martin Mascher,Gil Ben-Zvi,Ambre-Aurore Josselin,Axel Himmelbach,François Balfourier,Juan J. Gutierrez-Gonzalez,Matthew J. Hayden,Chushin Koh,Gary J. Muehlbauer,Raj K. Pasam,Etienne Paux,Philippe Rigault,Josquin Tibbits,Vijay K. Tiwari,Manuel Spannagl,Daniel Lang,Heidrun Gundlach,Georg Haberer,Klaus F. X. Mayer,Danara Ormanbekova,Verena M. Prade,Hana Šimková,Thomas Wicker,David Swarbreck,Hélène Rimbert,Marius Felder,Nicolas Guilhot,Gemy Kaithakottil,Jens Keilwagen,Philippe Leroy,Thomas Lux,Sven Twardziok,Luca Venturini,Angéla Juhász,Michael Abrouk,Iris Fischer,Cristobal Uauy,Philippa Borrill,Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez,Dominique Arnaud,Smahane Chalabi,Boulos Chalhoub,Boulos Chalhoub,Aron T. Cory,Raju Datla,Mark W. Davey,John Jacobs,Stephen J. Robinson,Burkhard Steuernagel,Fred van Ex,Brande B. H. Wulff,Moussa Benhamed,Abdelhafid Bendahmane,Lorenzo Concia,David Latrasse,Jan Bartoš,Arnaud Bellec,Hélène Bergès,Jaroslav Doležel,Zeev Frenkel,Bikram S. Gill,Abraham B. Korol,Thomas Letellier,Odd-Arne Olsen,Kuldeep Singh,Miroslav Valárik,Edwin A. G. van der Vossen,Sonia Vautrin,Song Weining,Tzion Fahima,Vladimir Glikson,Dina Raats,Jarmila Číhalíková,Helena Toegelová,Jan Vrána,Pierre Sourdille,Benoit Darrier,D. Barabaschi,Luigi Cattivelli,Pilar Hernández,Sergio Gálvez,Hikmet Budak,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Kamil Witek,Guotai Yu,Ian Small,Joanna Melonek,Ruonan Zhou,Tatiana Belova,Kostya Kanyuka,Robert King,Kirby T. Nilsen,Sean Walkowiak,Richard D. Cuthbert,Ron Knox,Krysta Wiebe,Daoquan Xiang,Antje Rohde,Timothy Golds,Jana Čížková,Bala Ani Akpinar,Sezgi Biyiklioglu,Liangliang Gao,Amidou N’Daiye,Marie Kubaláková,Jan Šafář,Françoise Alfama,Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon,Raphael Flores,Claire Guerche,Mikaël Loaec,Hadi Quesneville,Janet A. Condie,Jennifer Ens,Ron MacLachlan,Yifang Tan,Adriana Alberti,Jean-Marc Aury,Valérie Barbe,Arnaud Couloux,Corinne Cruaud,Karine Labadie,Sophie Mangenot,Patrick Wincker,Patrick Wincker,Gaganpreet Kaur,Ming-Cheng Luo,Sunish K. Sehgal,Parveen Chhuneja,O. P. Gupta,Suruchi Jindal,Parampreet Kaur,Palvi Malik,Priti Sharma,Bharat Yadav,Nagendra K. Singh,Jitendra P. Khurana,Chanderkant Chaudhary,Paramjit Khurana,Vinod Kumar,Ajay Kumar Mahato,Saloni Mathur,Amitha Mithra Sevanthi,Naveen Sharma,Ram Sewak Singh Tomar,Kateřina Holušová,Ondřej Plíhal,Matthew D. Clark,Matthew D. Clark,Darren Heavens,George Kettleborough,Jon Wright,Barbora Balcárková,Yuqin Hu,Elena A. Salina,Nikolai V. Ravin,Nikolai V. Ravin,Konstantin G. Skryabin,Konstantin G. Skryabin,Alexey V. Beletsky,Vitaly V. Kadnikov,Andrey V. Mardanov,Michail A. Nesterov,Andrey L. Rakitin,Ekaterina M. Sergeeva,Hirokazu Handa,Hiroyuki Kanamori,Satoshi Katagiri,Fuminori Kobayashi,Shuhei Nasuda,Tsuyoshi Tanaka,Jianzhong Wu,Federica Cattonaro,Min Jiumeng,Karl G. Kugler,Matthias Pfeifer,Simen Rød Sandve,Xu Xun,Bujie Zhan,Jacqueline Batley,Philipp E. Bayer,David Edwards,Satomi Hayashi,Zuzana Tulpová,Paul Visendi,Licao Cui,Xianghong Du,Kewei Feng,Xiaojun Nie,Wei Tong,Le Wang +207 more
TL;DR: This annotated reference sequence of wheat is a resource that can now drive disruptive innovation in wheat improvement, as this community resource establishes the foundation for accelerating wheat research and application through improved understanding of wheat biology and genomics-assisted breeding.
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Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.
Sean Walkowiak,Sean Walkowiak,Liangliang Gao,Cécile Monat,Georg Haberer,Mulualem T. Kassa,Jemima Brinton,Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez,Markus C. Kolodziej,Emily Delorean,Dinushika Thambugala,Valentyna Klymiuk,Brook Byrns,Heidrun Gundlach,Venkat Bandi,Jorge Nunez Siri,Kirby T. Nilsen,Catharine Aquino,Axel Himmelbach,Dario Copetti,Dario Copetti,Tomohiro Ban,Luca Venturini,Michael W. Bevan,Bernardo J. Clavijo,Dal-Hoe Koo,Jennifer Ens,Krystalee Wiebe,Amidou N’Diaye,Allen K. Fritz,Carl Gutwin,Anne Fiebig,Christine Fosker,Bin Xiao Fu,Gonzalo Garcia Accinelli,Keith A. Gardner,Nick Fradgley,Juan J. Gutierrez-Gonzalez,Gwyneth Halstead-Nussloch,Masaomi Hatakeyama,Chu Shin Koh,Jasline Deek,Alejandro C. Costamagna,Pierre R. Fobert,Darren Heavens,Hiroyuki Kanamori,Kanako Kawaura,Fuminori Kobayashi,Ksenia V. Krasileva,Tony Kuo,Tony Kuo,Neil McKenzie,Kazuki Murata,Yusuke Nabeka,Timothy Paape,Sudharsan Padmarasu,Lawrence Percival-Alwyn,Sateesh Kagale,Uwe Scholz,Jun Sese,Philomin Juliana,Ravi P. Singh,Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi,David Swarbreck,James Cockram,Hikmet Budak,Toshiaki Tameshige,Tsuyoshi Tanaka,Hiroyuki Tsuji,Jonathan M. Wright,Jianzhong Wu,Burkhard Steuernagel,Ian Small,Sylvie Cloutier,Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère,Gary J. Muehlbauer,Josquin Tibbets,Shuhei Nasuda,Joanna Melonek,Pierre Hucl,Andrew G. Sharpe,Matthew D. Clark,Erik Legg,Arvind K. Bharti,Peter Langridge,Anthony Hall,Cristobal Uauy,Martin Mascher,Simon G. Krattinger,Simon G. Krattinger,Hirokazu Handa,Kentaro Shimizu,Kentaro Shimizu,Assaf Distelfeld,Kenneth J. Chalmers,Beat Keller,Klaus F. X. Mayer,Jesse Poland,Nils Stein,Nils Stein,Curt A. McCartney,Manuel Spannagl,Thomas Wicker,Curtis J. Pozniak +103 more
TL;DR: Comparative analysis of multiple genome assemblies from wheat reveals extensive diversity that results from the complex breeding history of wheat and provides a basis for further potential improvements to this important food crop.
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Fusarium Head Blight in Durum Wheat: Recent Status, Breeding Directions, and Future Research Prospects.
Jemanesh K. Haile,Amidou N’Diaye,Sean Walkowiak,Kirby T. Nilsen,John M. Clarke,Hadley R. Kutcher,Barbara Steiner,Hermann Buerstmayr,Curtis J. Pozniak +8 more
TL;DR: The aim of this review is to summarization of and discuss the recent research efforts to mitigate FHB in durum wheat, including QTL mapping, genome-wide association studies, genomic prediction, mutagenesis and characterization of genes and pathways involved in FHB resistance.
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The Transcriptional Landscape of Polyploid Wheats and their Diploid Ancestors during Embryogenesis and Grain Development
Daoquan Xiang,Teagen D. Quilichini,Ziying Liu,Peng Gao,Youlian Pan,Qiang Li,Kirby T. Nilsen,Prakash Venglat,Eddi Esteban,Asher Pasha,Yejun Wang,Rui Wen,Zhongjuan Zhang,Zhaodong Hao,Edwin Wang,Yangdou Wei,Richard D. Cuthbert,Leon V. Kochian,Andrew G. Sharpe,Nicholas J. Provart,Dolf Weijers,Stewart Gillmor,Curtis J. Pozniak,Raju Datla +23 more
TL;DR: A framework for understanding the evolution of domesticated wheat and the selective pressures placed on grain production is presented, with important implications for future performance and yield improvements.
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Copy number variation of TdDof controls solid-stemmed architecture in wheat.
Kirby T. Nilsen,Sean Walkowiak,Sean Walkowiak,Daoquan Xiang,Peng Gao,Teagen D. Quilichini,Ian R. Willick,Brook Byrns,Amidou N’Diaye,Jennifer Ens,Krystalee Wiebe,Yuefeng Ruan,Richard D. Cuthbert,Melanie Craze,Emma J. Wallington,James Simmonds,Cristobal Uauy,Raju Datla,Curtis J. Pozniak +18 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that copy number variation of TdDof, a gene encoding a putative DNA binding with one finger protein, controls the stem solidness trait in wheat.