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We study wheat domestication and explore wheat's wild-relatives as a source for wheat improvement
פרסומים
- Dissecting the population structure, diversity and genetic architecture of rust resistance in wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides), Adhikari, L., Olivera, P. D., Raupp, J., Sela, H., Distelfeld, A., Maccaferri, M., Bozzoli, M., Mazzucotelli, E., Brandolini, A., Tuberosa, R., Özkan, H., Wulff, B. B. H., Steffenson, B. J. & Poland, J., Dec 2026, In: BMC Genomics. 27, 1, 284.
- Uncovering transgenerational phenotypic variation in Parthenium hysterophorus populations in Israel, Malka, S., Distelfeld, A. & Matzrafi, M., Sep 2026, In: Planta. 264, 3, 83.
- GAMMA IRRADIATION–INDUCED VARIATION IN GRAIN PROTEIN CONTENT AND DAYS FROM SOWING TO HEADING IN M₅ MUTANT LINES OF SPRING WHEAT (CV. ERITROSPERMUM-35), Doktyrbay, G., Kenzhebayeva, S. S., Atabayeva, S. D., Shoinbekova, S. A., Asrandina, S. S., Abdulzhanova, M. A., Rsatayeva, A. & Distelfeld, A., 30 Jun 2026, In: International Journal of Biology and Chemistry. 19, 1, p. 31-39 9 p.
- Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat, Lev-Mirom, Y., Ashkenazy, N., Klymiuk, V., Ens, J., Wiebe, K., Schuenemann, V. J., Eilam, T., Kulikovsky, S., Lavi, B. A., Günther, T., Krugman, T., Sela, H., Klein, E., Ganor, A., Davidovich, U., Porat, R., Ben-Yosef, E., David, M., Frankin, S. & Ben-David, R. & 12 others, , May 2026, In: Nature Plants. 12, 5, p. 954-963 10 p.
- Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat, 10+ Wheat Genome Project, 24 Feb 2026, In: Cell Reports. 45, 2, 116785.
- Structural diversity of Ym2, a gene conferring resistance against Wheat yellow mosaic virus, Xu, W., Xu, X., Mishina, K., Oono, Y., Sakuma, S., Pourkheirandish, M., Distelfeld, A., Zeng, X., Wang, X., Li, B., Komatsuda, T. & Liu, C., Feb 2026, In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 139, 2, 57.
- Durum Wheat cv. Svevo Reference Genome Rel.2.0: A Comprehensive Tool for Wheat Genomics, Mazzucotelli, E., Forestan, C., Zastrow-Hayes, G., Swarbreck, D., Lev-Mirom, Y., Cavalet-Giorsa, E., Bozzoli, M., Mastrangelo, A. M., Marone, D., Ranwez, V., Girodolle, J., Llaca, V., Fengler, K., Harris, C., Toegelová, H., Navrátilová, P., Faccioli, P., Desiderio, F., Valladares, A. P. & Kaithakottil, G. & 52 others, , 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Plant Biotechnology Journal.
- De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome, 10+ Wheat Genome Project, Dec 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 8538.
- Plasticity of Root System Architecture and Whole Transcriptome Responses Underlying Nitrogen Deficiency Tolerance Conferred by a Wild Emmer Wheat QTL, Govta, N., Govta, L., Sela, H., Peleg, G., Distelfeld, A., Fahima, T., Beckles, D. M. & Krugman, T., Apr 2025, In: Plant, Cell and Environment. 48, 4, p. 2835-2855 21 p.
- Development and application of a bioassay for assessing the dissipation rate of the synthetic strigolactone GR24 in soil, Wallach, A., Matzrafi, M., Distelfeld, A., Nasser, A. & Eizenberg, H., 1 Mar 2025, In: Weed Research. 65, 2, e12619.
- Comparison of Rhizosphere Microbiomes Between Domesticated and Wild Wheat in a Typical Agricultural Field: Insights into Microbial Community Structure and Functional Shifts, Fang, J., Blaschkauer, M., Distelfeld, A., Liu, Z., Song, B., Rachmilevitch, S. & Adams, J. M., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Fungi. 11, 3, 168.
- Nitrogen deficiency tolerance conferred by introgression of a QTL derived from wild emmer into bread wheat, Govta, N., Fatiukha, A., Govta, L., Pozniak, C., Distelfeld, A., Fahima, T., Beckles, D. M. & Krugman, T., Aug 2024, In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 137, 8, 187.
- Where was wheat domesticated?, Lev-Mirom, Y. & Distelfeld, A., Aug 2023, In: Nature Plants. 9, 8, p. 1201-1202 2 p.
- A Time to Sow, a Time to Reap: Modifications to Biological and Economic Rhythms in Southwest Asian Plant and Animal Domestication, Fuks, D., Lister, D. L., Distelfeld, A. & Marom, N., 5 Jun 2022, In: Agronomy. 12, 6, 1368.
- Genome sequences of three Aegilops species of the section Sitopsis reveal phylogenetic relationships and provide resources for wheat improvement, Avni, R., Lux, T., Minz-Dub, A., Millet, E., Sela, H., Distelfeld, A., Deek, J., Yu, G., Steuernagel, B., Pozniak, C., Ens, J., Gundlach, H., Mayer, K. F. X., Himmelbach, A., Stein, N., Mascher, M., Spannagl, M., Wulff, B. B. H. & Sharon, A., Apr 2022, In: Plant Journal. 110, 1, p. 179-192 14 p.
- Functional leaf anatomy of the invasive weed Solanum rostratum Dunal, Abu-Nassar, J., Gal, S., Shtein, I., Distelfeld, A. & Matzrafi, M., Apr 2022, In: Weed Research. 62, 2, p. 172-180 9 p.
- New insights into the dispersion history and adaptive evolution of taxon Aegilops tauschii in China, Li, H., Nie, F., Zhu, L., Mu, M., Fan, R., Li, J., Shaheen, A., Liu, Y., Li, C., Liu, W., Liang, H., Zhao, X., Bai, S., Guo, G., Li, Z., Hu, Y., Jiao, Y., Adams, J., Distelfeld, A. & Sun, G. & 3 others, , Mar 2022, In: Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 49, 3, p. 185-194 10 p.
- Wild emmer introgression alters root-to-shoot growth dynamics in durum wheat in response to water stress, Bacher, H., Zhu, F., Gao, T., Liu, K., Dhatt, B. K., Awada, T., Zhang, C., Distelfeld, A., Yu, H., Peleg, Z. & Walia, H., 3 Nov 2021, In: Plant Physiology. 187, 3, p. 1149-1162 14 p.
- Genome-wide mapping of loci for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat svevo using the 90k snp array, Zhou, X., Zhong, X., Roter, J., Li, X., Yao, Q., Yan, J., Yang, S., Guo, Q., Distelfeld, A., Sela, H. & Kang, Z., Apr 2021, In: Plant Disease. 105, 4, p. 879-888 10 p.
- The independent domestication of timopheev’s wheat: Insights from haplotype analysis of the brittle rachis 1 (btr1‐a) gene, Nave, M., Taş, M., Raupp, J., Tiwari, V. K., Ozkan, H., Poland, J., Hale, I., Komatsuda, T. & Distelfeld, A., 25 Feb 2021, In: Genes. 12, 3, p. 1-10 10 p., 338.
- The Brittle Rachis Trait in Species Belonging to the Triticeae and Its Controlling Genes Btr1 and Btr2, Zeng, X., Mishina, K., Jia, J., Distelfeld, A., Maughan, P. J., Kikuchi, S., Sassa, H. & Komatsuda, T., 22 Jul 2020, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 11, 1000.
- Rapid evolution of α-gliadin gene family revealed by analyzing Gli-2 locus regions of wild emmer wheat, Huo, N., Zhu, T., Zhang, S., Mohr, T., Luo, M. C., Lee, J. Y., Distelfeld, A., Altenbach, S. & Gu, Y. Q., 1 Nov 2019, In: Functional and Integrative Genomics. 19, 6, p. 993-1005 13 p.
- Wheat domestication in light of haplotype analyses of the Brittle rachis 1 genes (BTR1-A and BTR1-B), Nave, M., Avni, R., Çakır, E., Portnoy, V., Sela, H., Pourkheirandish, M., Ozkan, H., Hale, I., Komatsuda, T., Dvorak, J. & Distelfeld, A., Aug 2019, In: Plant Science. 285, p. 193-199 7 p.
- Improved genome sequence of wild emmer wheat Zavitan with the aid of optical maps, Zhu, T., Wang, L., Rodriguez, J. C., Deal, K. R., Avni, R., Distelfeld, A., McGuire, P. E., Dvorak, J. & Luo, M. C., 1 Mar 2019, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 9, 3, p. 619-624 6 p.
- Reassessment of the evolution of wheat chromosomes 4A, 5A, and 7B, Dvorak, J., Wang, L., Zhu, T., Jorgensen, C. M., Luo, M. C., Deal, K. R., Gu, Y. Q., Gill, B. S., Distelfeld, A., Devos, K. M., Qi, P. & McGuire, P. E., 1 Nov 2018, In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 131, 11, p. 2451-2462 12 p.
- Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome, International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), 17 Aug 2018, In: Science. 361, 6403, eaar7191.
- A high-density genetic map of wild emmer wheat from the karaca dağ region provides new evidence on the structure and evolution of wheat chromosomes, Jorgensen, C., Luo, M. C., Ramasamy, R., Dawson, M., Gill, B. S., Korol, A. B., Distelfeld, A. & Dvorak, J., 20 Oct 2017, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 8, 1798.
- Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication, Avni, R., Nave, M., Barad, O., Baruch, K., Twardziok, S. O., Gundlach, H., Hale, I., Mascher, M., Spannagl, M., Wiebe, K., Jordan, K. W., Golan, G., Deek, J., Ben-Zvi, B., Ben-Zvi, G., Himmelbach, A., Maclachlan, R. P., Sharpe, A. G., Fritz, A. & Ben-David, R. & 28 others, , 7 Jul 2017, In: Science. 357, 6346, p. 93-97 5 p.
- The Solanum tuberosum KST1 partial promoter as a tool for guard cell expression in multiple plant species, Kelly, G., Lugassi, N., Belausov, E., Wolf, D., Khamaisi, B., Brandsma, D., Kottapalli, J., Fidel, L., Ben-Zvi, B., Egbaria, A., Acheampong, A. K., Zheng, C., Or, E., Distelfeld, A., David-Schwartz, R., Carmi, N. & Granot, D., 17 May 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 68, 11, p. 2885-2897 13 p.
- High density mapping and haplotype analysis of the major stem-solidness locus SSt1 in durum and common wheat, Nilsen, K. T., N'Diaye, A., MacLachlan, P. R., Clarke, J. M., Ruan, Y., Cuthbert, R. D., Knox, R. E., Wiebe, K., Cory, A. T., Walkowiak, S., Beres, B. L., Graf, R. J., Clarke, F. R., Sharpe, A. G., Distelfeld, A. & Pozniak, C. J., Apr 2017, In: PLOS ONE. 12, 4, e0175285.
- Acceleration of leaf senescence is slowed down in transgenic barley plants deficient in the DNA/RNA-binding protein WHIRLY1, Kucharewicz, W., Distelfeld, A., Bilger, W., Müller, M., Munné-Bosch, S., Hensel, G. & Krupinska, K., 1 Feb 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 68, 5, p. 983-996 14 p.
- QTLs for uniform grain dimensions and germination selected during wheat domestication are co-located on chromosome 4B, Nave, M., Avni, R., Ben-Zvi, B., Hale, I. & Distelfeld, A., 1 Jul 2016, In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 129, 7, p. 1303-1315 13 p.
- A metabolic gene cluster in the wheat W1 and the barley Cer-cqu loci determines β-diketone biosynthesis and glaucousness, Hen-Avivi, S., Savin, O., Racovita, R. C., Lee, W. S., Adamski, N. M., Malitsky, S., Almekias-Siegl, E., Levy, M., Vautrin, S., Bergès, H., Friedlander, G., Kartvelishvily, E., Ben-Zvi, G., Alkan, N., Uauy, C., Kanyuka, K., Jetter, R., Distelfeld, A. & Aharoni, A., Jun 2016, In: Plant Cell. 28, 6, p. 1440-1460 21 p.
- Ultra-dense genetic map of durum wheat × wild emmer wheat developed using the 90K iSelect SNP genotyping assay, Avni, R., Nave, M., Eilam, T., Sela, H., Alekperov, C., Peleg, Z., Dvorak, J., Korol, A. & Distelfeld, A., 6 Dec 2014, In: Molecular Breeding. 34, 4, p. 1549-1562 14 p.
- Introgression of leaf rust and stripe rust resistance from Sharon goatgrass (Aegilops sharonensis Eig) into bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), Millet, E., Manisterski, J., Ben-Yehuda, P., Distelfeld, A., Deek, J., Wan, A., Chen, X. & Steffenson, B. J., 1 Oct 2014, In: Genome. 57, 6, p. 309-316 8 p.
- Senescence, nutrient remobilization, and yield in wheat and barley, Distelfeld, A., Avni, R. & Fischer, A. M., 1 Jul 2014, In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 65, 14, p. 3783-3798 16 p.
- Application of CAPS markers for genomic studies in wild emmer wheat, Raats, D., Yaniv, E., Distelfeld, A., Ben-David, R., Shanir, J., Bocharova, V., Schulman, A. H. & Fahima, T., 1 Apr 2014, Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers in Plant Biology. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., p. 31-60 30 p.
- Increased copy number at the HvFT1 locus is associated with accelerated flowering time in barley, Nitcher, R., Distelfeld, A., Tan, C., Yan, L. & Dubcovsky, J., Jun 2013, In: Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 288, 5-6, p. 261-275 15 p.
- Divergent functions of orthologous NAC transcription factors in wheat and rice, Distelfeld, A., Pearce, S. P., Avni, R., Scherer, B., Uauy, C., Piston, F., Slade, A., Zhao, R. & Dubcovsky, J., Mar 2012, In: Plant Molecular Biology. 78, 4-5, p. 515-524 10 p.
- Regulation of freezing tolerance and flowering in temperate cereals: The VRN-1 connection, Dhillon, T., Pearce, S. P., Stockinger, E. J., Distelfeld, A., Li, C., Knox, A. K., Vashegyi, I., Galiba, G., Vágú, A. & Dubcovsky, J., 1 Aug 2010, In: Plant Physiology. 153, 4, p. 1846-1858 13 p.
- Regulation of flowering in temperate cereals, Distelfeld, A., Li, C. & Dubcovsky, J., Apr 2009, In: Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 12, 2, p. 178-184 7 p.
- A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust, Fu, D., Uauy, C., Distelfeld, A., Blechl, A., Epstein, L., Chen, X., Sela, H., Fahima, T. & Dubcovsky, J., 2009, In: Science. 323, 5919, p. 1357-1360 4 p.
- Colinearity between the barley grain protein content (GPC) QTL on chromosome arm 6HS and the wheat Gpc-B1 region, Distelfeld, A., Korol, A., Dubcovsky, J., Uauy, C., Blake, T. & Fahima, T., Aug 2008, In: Molecular Breeding. 22, 1, p. 25-38 14 p.
- Identification of a novel gene (Hsdr4) involved in water-stress tolerance in wild barley, Suprunova, T., Krugman, T., Distelfeld, A., Fahima, T., Nevo, E. & Korol, A., May 2007, In: Plant Molecular Biology. 64, 1-2, p. 17-34 18 p.
- A NAC gene regulating senescence improves grain protein, zinc, and iron content in wheat, Uauy, C., Distelfeld, A., Fahima, T., Blechl, A. & Dubcovsky, J., 24 Nov 2006, In: Science. 314, 5803, p. 1298-1301 4 p.
- Physical map of the wheat high-grain protein content gene Gpc-B1 and development of a high-throughput molecular marker, Distelfeld, A., Uauy, C., Fahima, T. & Dubcovsky, J., Feb 2006, In: New Phytologist. 169, 4, p. 753-763 11 p.
- גן שמקורו ב"אם החיטה" מישראל עשוי לשפר את האיכות התזונתית של גרגרי החיטה בעולם, דיסטלפלד, א. & פחימה, צ., 2006, In: גן שדה ומשק. 12, p. 5-7 3 p.
- Microcolinearity between a 2-cM region encompassing the grain protein content locus Gpc-6B1 on wheat chromosome 6B and a 350-kb region on rice chromosome 2, Distelfeld, A., Uauy, C., Olmos, S., Schlatter, A. R., Dubcovsky, J. & Fahima, T., Mar 2004, In: Functional and Integrative Genomics. 4, 1, p. 59-66 8 p.
- Precise mapping of a locus affecting grain protein content in durum wheat, Olmos, S., Distelfeld, A., Chicaiza, O., Schlatter, A. R., Fahima, T., Echenique, V. & Dubcovsky, J., Nov 2003, In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 107, 7, p. 1243-1251 9 p.
- Development of sweet melon (Cucumis melo) genotypes combining high sucrose and organic acid content, Burger, Y., Sa'ar, U., Distelfeld, A., Katzir, N., Yeselson, Y., Shen, S. & Schaffer, A. A., Jul 2003, In: Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 128, 4, p. 537-540 4 p.