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Kirstin Bett
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Latest papers
Insights into lentil diversity, domestication, and the genetic basis of important agronomic traits through resequencing of 238 Lens accessions.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
B vitamin quantification in lentil seed tissues using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry.
Food chemistry · 2024 · senior author
The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2021
Latest funding
- $414,042
NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $403,665
Towards generating multiple-fungal resistance in lentil
NSERC · 2013 · Co-investigator
- $228,275
Unlocking the bioavailability of phosphorus and micronutrients through development of low phytate-phosphorus pea
NSERC · 2007 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Insights into lentil diversity, domestication, and the genetic basis of important agronomic traits through resequencing of 238 Lens accessions.
Ma Y, Main D, Coyne CJ, Porter LD, Heineck GC, Burrows M, Warburton ML, Uhdre R, Sari H, Bourland B, Bett K, McGee RJ
B vitamin quantification in lentil seed tissues using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry.
Marshall J, Vargas A, Bett K
The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems.
Bellucci E, Mario Aguilar O, Alseekh S, Bett K, Brezeanu C, Cook D, De la Rosa L, Delledonne M, Dostatny DF, Ferreira JJ, Geffroy V, Ghitarrini S, Kroc M, Kumar Agrawal S, Logozzo G, Marino M, Mary-Huard T, McClean P, Meglič V, Messer T, Muel F, Nanni L, Neumann K, Servalli F, Străjeru S, Varshney RK, Vasconcelos MW, Zaccardelli M, Zavarzin A, Bitocchi E, Frontoni E, Fernie AR, Gioia T, Graner A, Guasch L, Prochnow L, Oppermann M, Susek K, Tenaillon M, Papa R
Identification of anthracnose race 1 resistance loci in lentil by integrating linkage mapping and genome-wide association study.
Gela T, Ramsay L, Haile TA, Vandenberg A, Bett K
Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity.
McCouch S, Navabi ZK, Abberton M, Anglin NL, Barbieri RL, Baum M, Bett K, Booker H, Brown GL, Bryan GJ, Cattivelli L, Charest D, Eversole K, Freitas M, Ghamkhar K, Grattapaglia D, Henry R, Valadares Inglis MC, Islam T, Kehel Z, Kersey PJ, King GJ, Kresovich S, Marden E, Mayes S, Ndjiondjop MN, Nguyen HT, Paiva SR, Papa R, Phillips PWB, Rasheed A, Richards C, Rouard M, Amstalden Sampaio MJ, Scholz U, Shaw PD, Sherman B, Staton SE, Stein N, Svensson J, Tester M, Montenegro Valls JF, Varshney R, Visscher S, von Wettberg E, Waugh R, Wenzl P, Rieseberg LH
Tripal v3: an ontology-based toolkit for construction of FAIR biological community databases.
Spoor S, Cheng CH, Sanderson LA, Condon B, Almsaeed A, Chen M, Bretaudeau A, Rasche H, Jung S, Main D, Bett K, Staton M, Wegrzyn JL, Feltus FA, Ficklin SP
Slow darkening of pinto bean seed coat is associated with significant metabolite and transcript differences related to proanthocyanidin biosynthesis.
Duwadi K, Austin RS, Mainali HR, Bett K, Marsolais F, Dhaubhadel S
A genome-wide identification and comparative analysis of the lentil MLO genes.
Polanco C, Sáenz de Miera LE, Bett K, Pérez de la Vega M
Genetics and Biochemistry of Zero-Tannin Lentils
Mahla Mirali, Randy W. Purves, Rob Stonehouse, Rui Song, Kirstin E. Bett, Albert Vandenberg
Genome wide SNP identification in chickpea for use in development of a high density genetic map and improvement of chickpea reference genome assembly.
Deokar AA, Ramsay L, Sharpe AG, Diapari M, Sindhu A, Bett K, Warkentin TD, Tar'an B
NSERC CREATE in Computational Agriculture
Principal investigators: Stavness, Ian IK
Keywords: agronomy; bioinformatics; crop breeding; data & image analysis; genomics; machine learning; plant phenotyping; precision agriculture; predictive modeling; software development
Towards generating multiple-fungal resistance in lentil
Principal investigators: Banniza, Sabine
Unlocking the bioavailability of phosphorus and micronutrients through development of low phytate-phosphorus pea
Principal investigators: Warkentin, Thomas
Good, bad or just ugly - flavonoid genetics in pulse crops
Principal investigators: Bett, Kirstin
National gene deployment strategy for control of common bacterial blight for the Canadian dry bean industry
Principal investigators: Pauls, Peter
Thermal cycler to support phaseolous genome analysis
Principal investigators: Bett, Kirstin
Molecular breeding of pulse crops for improved quality
Principal investigators: Bett, Kirstin
Identification and transfer of genes related to frost tolerance from Phaseolus angustissimus to P. vulgaris
Principal investigators: Bett, Kirstin
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.
Frequent collaborators
- Randall Purves and Randy Purves: 110 shared papers
- Sangeeta Dhaubhadel and Frédéric Marsolais: 12 shared papers
- Kirstin Bett and Bunyamin Tar'an: 4 shared papers
- Graham King and Helen Booker: 1 shared paper
- Graham King and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Sangeeta Dhaubhadel and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Frédéric Marsolais and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Randall Purves and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Helen Booker and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Randy Purves and Kirstin Bett: 1 shared paper
- Kirstin Bett and Ana Vargas: 1 shared paper
- Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre
- Crop Development Centre
- Department of Biology
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Department of Plant Agriculture
- College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
- Science and Technology
- Other
Co-authors at University of Saskatchewan, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Bunyamin Tar'an
Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre
4 shared papers, latest 2014
Ana Vargas
Crop Development Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Graham King
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Loren Rieseberg
Biodiversity Research Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Sangeeta Dhaubhadel
Science and Technology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Frédéric Marsolais
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Randall Purves
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Helen Booker
Department of Plant Agriculture
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Randy Purves
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2016
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