Yusheng Zhao

Apr 9, 2024 | nature.com | Miaomiao Li |Jingzhong Xie |Yiwen Li |Tzion Fahima |Lingli Dong |Yusheng Zhao

AbstractCrop wild relatives offer natural variations of disease resistance for crop improvement. Here, we report the isolation of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance gene Pm36, originated from wild emmer wheat, that encodes a tandem kinase with a transmembrane domain (WTK7-TM) through the combination of map-based cloning, PacBio SMRT long-read genome sequencing, mutagenesis, and transformation.

Dec 7, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Fang Liu |Jie Zhang |Yusheng Zhao |Renate Schmidt

AbstractGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a ubiquitous tool for identifying genetic variants associated with complex traits in structured populations. During the past years, many fast GWAS algorithms based on a state-of-the-art model, namely the linear mixed model, have been published to cope with the rapidly growing data size. In this study, we provide a comprehensive overview and benchmarking analysis of commonly used GWAS algorithms.