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Curtis Pozniak

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Distinguished ProfessorPlant Sciences, Crop Development CentreUniversity of Saskatchewan

Curtis Pozniak

Distinguished Professor

Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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26 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 NSERC, 1 CFI), most recently in 2010.

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Director, Crop Development Centre

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Research

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Wheat Genetics, genomics and breeding Pan genomics in cool season grasses Next generation breeding techniques Production and management of durum and high yielding wheat

Latest papers

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat
Cell Reports · 2026
Genome-Wide Association Study of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat Accessions from Plant Gene Resources of Canada Using 90K and 40K SNP Arrays.
Plant disease · 2026
Transitions in structural, functional, and digestibility properties of durum wheat starches with normal, intermediate, and high amylose levels.
Carbohydrate polymers · 2026

All 54 publications

Latest funding

NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$414,042
Adapting wheat to stressful environments: Identifying key transpiration efficiency components reducing day-time water loss and heat stress linked to yield
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$1,143,308
Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$250,000

All 7 grants and awards

54 publications.

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat

Gwyneth Halstead-Nussloch, Moeko Okada, Haberer Georg, Thomas M. Lux, A.S.M. Faridul Islam, Masaomi Hatakeyama, Roman V. Briskine, Benjamen White, Anthony J W Hall, Curtis Pozniak, Sean Walkowiak, Valentyna Klymiuk, Brook Byrns, Kirby Nilsen, Jennifer Ens, Krystalee Wiebe, Amidou N’ Diaye, Pierre J. Hucl, Curtis Pozniak, Bin Xiao Fu, Liangliang Gao, Emily Delorean, Dal‐Hoe Koo, Allen K. Fritz, Jesse A. Poland, Cécile Monat, Axel Himmelbach, Anne Fiebig, Sudharsan Padmarasu, Uwe Scholz, et al. (115 authors)

Cell Reports20262 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116785 PMID: 41592571

Genome-Wide Association Study of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat Accessions from Plant Gene Resources of Canada Using 90K and 40K SNP Arrays.

Ponce-Molina L, Zhou J, Hladun M, Oviedo-Ludena MA, Kist M, Zhang W, Booker H, Serajazari M, McCartney C, Brule-Babel A, Diederichsen A, Pozniak C, Wang L, Kutcher HR

Plant disease2026

DOI: 10.1094/pdis-03-25-0577-re PMID: 41060268

Transitions in structural, functional, and digestibility properties of durum wheat starches with normal, intermediate, and high amylose levels.

Ren Y, Cheng F, Cai Y, Reimer M, Pozniak C, Ai Y

Carbohydrate polymers2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2026.125136 PMID: 41943359

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome

Benjamen White, Thomas M. Lux, Rachel L. Rusholme-Pilcher, Angéla Juhász, Gemy Kaithakottil, Susan Hanley Duncan, James Simmonds, Hannah Rees, Jonathan Wright, Joshua Colmer, Ben J. Ward, Ryan Joynson, Benedict Coombes, Naomi Irish, Suzanne M. Henderson, Tom Barker, Helen Chapman, Leah Catchpole, Karim Gharbi, Utpal Bose, Moeko Okada, Hirokazu Handa, Shuhei Nasuda, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Heidrun Gundlach, Daniel Lang, Guy Naamati, Erik J. Legg, Arvind Kumar Bharti, Michelle Lisa Colgrave, et al. (132 authors)

Nature Communications202514 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64046-1 PMID: 41053037

Rapid identification of Fusarium species causing head blight in Canada using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.

Kurera S, Patel B, Ashfaq T, Eckhardt M, Bamforth J, Gamage N, Singh Brar G, Harris L, Henriquez M, Subramaniam R, Wang X, Punja Z, Pozniak C, Bakker M, Walkowiak S

Canadian journal of microbiology20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2025-0035 PMID: 40279673

Guard cell and whole plant expression of AtTOR improves performance under drought and enhances water use efficiency.

Liu L, Gao P, Sheng H, Bakshi A, Schneider D, Xiang D, Babic V, Ren M, Burbridge C, Nguyen H, Wang S, Armenta-Medina A, Mora-Macias J, Sharpe A, Pozniak C, Magalhaes J, Datla R, Kochian L

The Journal of biological chemistry2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110220 PMID: 40374165

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity.

Guo W, Schreiber M, Marosi VB, Bagnaresi P, Jørgensen ME, Braune KB, Chalmers K, Chapman B, Dang V, Dockter C, Fiebig A, Fincher GB, Fricano A, Fuller J, Haaning A, Haberer G, Himmelbach A, Jayakodi M, Jia Y, Kamal N, Langridge P, Li C, Lu Q, Lux T, Mascher M, Mayer KFX, McCallum N, Milne L, Muehlbauer GJ, Nielsen MTS, Padmarasu S, Pedas PR, Pillen K, Pozniak C, Rasmussen MW, Sato K, Schmutzer T, Scholz U, Schüler D, Šimková H, Skadhauge B, Stein N, Thomsen NW, Voss C, Wang P, Wonneberger R, Zhang XQ, Zhang G, Cattivelli L, Spannagl M, Bayer M, Simpson C, Zhang R, Waugh R

Nature genetics2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-02069-y PMID: 39901014

Tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom.

Reveguk T, Fatiukha A, Potapenko E, Reveguk I, Sela H, Klymiuk V, Li Y, Pozniak C, Wicker T, Coaker G, Fahima T

Nature genetics2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-02032-x PMID: 39779952

Divergent molecular pathways govern temperature-dependent wheat stem rust resistance genes.

Hewitt TC, Sharma K, Zhang J, Chen C, Bajgain P, Bhatt D, Singh S, Olivera Firpo PD, Yang J, Wang Q, Upadhyaya N, Pozniak C, McIntosh R, Lagudah E, Zhang P, Rouse MN

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60030-x PMID: 40436869

Genetic mapping of deoxynivalenol and fusarium damaged kernel resistance in an adapted durum wheat population.

Berraies S, Ruan Y, Knox R, DePauw R, Bokore F, Cuthbert R, Blackwell B, Henriquez MA, Konkin D, Yu B, Pozniak C, Meyer B

BMC plant biology2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04708-8 PMID: 38475749

NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Stavness, Ian IK

Keywords: agronomy; bioinformatics; crop breeding; data & image analysis; genomics; machine learning; plant phenotyping; precision agriculture; predictive modeling; software development

$414,042

Adapting wheat to stressful environments: Identifying key transpiration efficiency components reducing day-time water loss and heat stress linked to yield

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen K

Keywords: aquaporins; canopy architecture; cuticular waxes; day time water loss; drought stress; heat stress; selection criteria; transpiration efficiency; wheat

$1,143,308

Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Kochian, Leon

Keywords: crop resilience agricultural sustainability root system architecture high-throughput root imaging climate change drought tolerance wheat deep learning machine learning latent variable models

$250,000

Deciphering the genetics of important traits in plants

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pozniak, Curtis

$150,000

Integrating functional genomics and genetic mapping to clone genes responsible for low grain cadmium concentration in durum wheat

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: Taylor, Gregory

$388,705

Genetics and genomics of important end-use quality traits in wheat

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pozniak, Curtis

$135,000

Genetics, Genomics and Breeding for Improved Durum Wheat End-use Quality

Principal investigatorCFI2004John R. Evans Leaders Fund: On-going New Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: Pozniak, Curtis

Keywords: Genetic mapping, end-use quality, durum wheat, DNA markers

$67,600

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Curtis Pozniak

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat

Genome-Wide Association Study of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat Accessions from Plant Gene Resources of Canada Using 90K and 40K SNP Arrays.

Transitions in structural, functional, and digestibility properties of durum wheat starches with normal, intermediate, and high amylose levels.

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome

Rapid identification of Fusarium species causing head blight in Canada using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.

Guard cell and whole plant expression of AtTOR improves performance under drought and enhances water use efficiency.

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity.

Tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom.

Divergent molecular pathways govern temperature-dependent wheat stem rust resistance genes.

Genetic mapping of deoxynivalenol and fusarium damaged kernel resistance in an adapted durum wheat population.

NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture

Adapting wheat to stressful environments: Identifying key transpiration efficiency components reducing day-time water loss and heat stress linked to yield

Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change

Deciphering the genetics of important traits in plants

Integrating functional genomics and genetic mapping to clone genes responsible for low grain cadmium concentration in durum wheat

Genetics and genomics of important end-use quality traits in wheat

Genetics, Genomics and Breeding for Improved Durum Wheat End-use Quality

Frequent collaborators

Dean Spaner

Pierre Hucl

Curt McCartney

Raju Datla

Valentyna Klymiuk

Leon Kochian

Jonathan Ambrose

Ian Stavness

Yangdou Wei

Chris Ambrose

Sabine Banniza

A. Costamagna

Carl Gutwin

Alejandro Costamagna

Jitao Zou

H. Kutcher

David Schneider

Randy Kutcher

Helen Booker

Istvan Rajcan

Edwin Wang

Matthew Bakker

Rong-Cai Yang

Nicholas Provart

Yongfeng Ai

Hadley Kutcher

Zamir Punja

Rajagopal Subramaniam