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Rong-Cai Yang
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Research
Latest papers
Genetic parameters of growth and adaptive traits in aspen (Populus tremuloides): Implications for tree breeding in a warming world.
PloS one · 2020
Evaluation of Brassica oleracea accessions for resistance to Plasmodiophora brassicae and identification of genomic regions associated with resistance.
Genome · 2020
Potential of the C Genome of the Different Variants of Brassica oleracea for Heterosis in Spring B. napus Canola.
Frontiers in plant science · 2019
Latest funding
- $198,000
Genome-wide identification of novel candidate genes with resistance to biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens in plants
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $619,783
Western gall rust resistance in pines: using genomics to discover resistance mechanisms and develop new tools for tree breeding
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $29,000
Bioinformatics and computational genomics of host-pathogen interaction in plants
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
19 publications.
Genetic parameters of growth and adaptive traits in aspen (Populus tremuloides): Implications for tree breeding in a warming world.
Ding C, Hamann A, Yang RC, Brouard JS
Evaluation of Brassica oleracea accessions for resistance to Plasmodiophora brassicae and identification of genomic regions associated with resistance.
Farid M, Yang RC, Kebede B, Rahman H
Potential of the C Genome of the Different Variants of Brassica oleracea for Heterosis in Spring B. napus Canola.
Nikzad A, Kebede B, Pinzon J, Bhavikkumar J, Wang X, Yang RC, Rahman H
Field data analysis of active chlorine-containing stormwater samples.
Zhang Q, Gaafar M, Yang RC, Ding C, Davies EGR, Bolton JR, Liu Y
Inferring defense-related gene families in Arabidopsis and wheat.
Yang RC, Peng FY, Hu Z
Genome-wide estimation of heritability and its functional components for flowering, defense, ionomics, and developmental traits in a geographically diverse population of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Yang RC
Prediction and analysis of three gene families related to leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).
Peng FY, Yang RC
QTLs associated with agronomic traits in the Attila × CDC Go spring wheat population evaluated under conventional management.
Zou J, Semagn K, Iqbal M, Chen H, Asif M, N'Diaye A, Navabi A, Perez-Lara E, Pozniak C, Yang RC, Randhawa H, Spaner D
Bioinformatic prediction of transcription factor binding sites at promoter regions of genes for photoperiod and vernalization responses in model and temperate cereal plants.
Peng FY, Hu Z, Yang RC
Genome-Wide Comparative Analysis of Flowering-Related Genes in Arabidopsis, Wheat, and Barley.
Peng FY, Hu Z, Yang RC
Genome-wide identification of novel candidate genes with resistance to biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens in plants
Principal investigators: Yang, Rong-Cai
Keywords: Arabidopsis; bioinformatics; Biotrophic and Necrotrophic pathogens; Cereal crop plants; comparative genomics; Computational genomics; Effector triggered immunity (ETI); Gene families; Necrotrophic effectors (NEs); Sequence homology
Western gall rust resistance in pines: using genomics to discover resistance mechanisms and develop new tools for tree breeding
Principal investigators: Cooke, Janice
Bioinformatics and computational genomics of host-pathogen interaction in plants
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
Genome-wide approach to dissecting the genetic basis of heterosis
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
Association genetics approach to identification of hybrids in pinus contorta - pinus banksiana complex
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
Association approach to identification of genes for western gall rust resistance in a lodgepole-jack pine hybrid zone
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
Organizaation of genetic variability and patterns of introgression as revealed by random DNA markers and resistance to western gall rust in Pinus contorta - banksiana complex
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
Susceptibility of pinus contorta-banksiana complex to western gall rust: an evolutionary implication
Principal investigators: Yang, RongCai
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Dean Spaner and Rong-Cai Yang: 2 shared papers
- Habibur Rahman and Rong-Cai Yang: 2 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Rong-Cai Yang: 1 shared paper
- Andreas Hamann and Rong-Cai Yang: 1 shared paper
- Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- AFNS
- Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of
- Renewable Resources
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
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