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Gurcharn Brar
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Research
Latest funding
- $442,994
TILL-D: A sequence-configured Aegilops tauschii TILLING resource for wheat improvement
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $75,000
Developing early-maturing hard red spring wheat breeding lines with good lodging tolerance for the Parkland Region
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $73,000
Building stripe rust and Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance in Canadian wheat
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
The potential of wheat spatial omics.
Tao XY, Tan C, Liu Y, Wang Y, Raza A, He J, Wang L, Xia K, Yan Y, Liao S, Jiang W, Qu Y, Xu B, Zhou Y, Yang X, Roy S, Denton M, Tucker M, Able J, Gilliham M, Langridge P, Hu HW, He JZ, Zhao C, Zhou M, Mir RR, Chitikineni A, Li C, Zhang P, Trethowan R, Ding Y, Zhang J, Franks P, Wu Q, Ye L, Wang Y, Wu F, Zhang G, Cai S, Shen Q, Jiang H, Chen G, Zhou Y, Song C, Zhang Y, Ma W, Li X, Guo W, Zeng J, He X, Liu W, Feng X, Zhang R, Li G, Cao X, Liu S, Liu Q, Chen J, Zhang X, Liu L, Zeng F, Deng F, Qin Y, Zhu X, Shabala S, Tee EE, Schnurbusch T, Mascher M, Wu H, Spannagl M, Xin M, Gou J, Brar G, Xue D, Wang W, Reynolds M, Zhao Y, Liu Z, Krugman T, Sakata Y, Yee S, Chan K, Pogson B, Zhang Y, Marchant DB, Siddique KHM, Fang X, Chen A, Henry R, Boden SA, Varshney RK, Xu SC, Xu X, Chen ZH
TILL-D: A sequence-configured Aegilops tauschii TILLING resource for wheat improvement
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh
Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture and primary food production
Developing early-maturing hard red spring wheat breeding lines with good lodging tolerance for the Parkland Region
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh GS
Keywords: cultivar genetics; early-maturity; lodging tolerance; parkland region; shuttle breeding; wheat; wheat breeding; wheat genetics
Building stripe rust and Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance in Canadian wheat
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh GS
Keywords: disease screening; fusarium head blight; genetics; resistance breeding; stripe rust; wheat; wheat breeding
Characterization of a genomic region controlling spikelet number and improved fertility under drought stress in wheat
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh GS
Keywords: drought tolerance; floret fertility; spikelet development; wheat; wheat breeding; wheat genetics
Understanding the stochastic impacts of Fusarium head blight (FHB) in barley
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh GS
Keywords: barley; cultivar development; deoxynivalenol; disease resistance; fusarium head blight; gene expression; gene expression noise; genetics; host resistance; transcriptomics
Exploring effectors in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and identifying new sources of host resistance
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh
Exploring effectors in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and identifying new sources of host resistance
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh
Keywords: wheat; stripe rust; virulence; effectors; genomics; pangenome; genome sequencing; association genetics; puccinia striiformis; resistance breeding
Staying ahead of ever evolving cereal pathogens: management by early detection, host resistance, and microbiome exploitation
Principal investigators: Brar, Gurcharn Singh GS
Keywords: barley; crop pathology; functional pathogenomics; fungal diseases; genome sequencing; host resistance; microbiomes; pathogen detection; pathogen races and lineages; wheat
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