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Valentyna Klymiuk

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Assistant ProfessorPlant Sciences, Crop Development CentreUniversity of Saskatchewan

Valentyna Klymiuk

Assistant Professor

Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre

University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Wheat pre-breeding (trait breeding)Applied genomics Fusarium Head Blight resistance

Latest papers

Durum Wheat cv. Svevo Reference Genome Rel.2.0: A Comprehensive Tool for Wheat Genomics
Plant Biotechnology Journal · 2026
Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat.
Nature plants · 2026
Coordinated function of paired NLRs confers Yr84-mediated stripe rust resistance in wheat.
Nature genetics · 2025 · first author

All 16 publications

16 publications.

Durum Wheat cv. Svevo Reference Genome Rel.2.0: A Comprehensive Tool for Wheat Genomics

Elisabetta Mazzucotelli, Cristian Forestan, Gina Zastrow-Hayes, David Swarbreck, Yael Lev-Mirom, Emile Cavalet-Giorsa, Matteo Bozzoli, Anna Maria Mastrangelo, Daniela Marone, Vincent Ranwez, Johanna Girodolle, Víctor Llaca, K Fengler, C. Jake Harris, Helena Toegelová, Pavla Navrátilová, Primetta Faccioli, Francesca Desiderio, Ana Paola Valladares, Gemy Kaithakottil, Rachel L. Rusholme-Pilcher, M. Spannagl, Heidrun Gundlach, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Victoria C. Blake, Justin D. Faris, Steven S. Xu, Taner Z. Sen, Eric Yao, Julio Isidro y Sánchez, et al. (72 authors)

Plant Biotechnology Journal2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1111/pbi.70673 PMID: 42439890

Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat.

Lev-Mirom Y, Ashkenazy N, Klymiuk V, Ens J, Wiebe K, Schuenemann VJ, Eilam T, Kulikovsky S, Lavi BA, Günther T, Krugman T, Sela H, Klein E, Ganor A, Davidovich U, Porat R, Ben-Yosef E, David M, Frankin S, Ben-David R, Cavalet-Giorsa E, Krattinger SG, Korol A, Mascher M, Himmelbach A, Stein N, Krause J, Distelfeld A, Weiss E, Fahima T, Pozniak CJ, Hübner S

Nature plants2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41477-026-02283-y PMID: 42026206

Coordinated function of paired NLRs confers Yr84-mediated stripe rust resistance in wheat.

Klymiuk V, Wiebe K, Chawla HS, Ens J, Subramaniam R, Pozniak CJ

Nature genetics202533 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02203-4 PMID: 40490512

Priority actions for Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat: Insights from the wheat initiative

Ambra Viviani, Jemanesh K. Haile, W. G. Dilantha Fernando, Carla Ceoloni, Ljiljana Kuzmanović, Dhondup Lhamo, Yongqiang Gu, Steven S. Xu, Xiwen Cai, Hermann Buerstmayr, Elias M. Elias, Alessia Confortini, Matteo Bozzoli, Gurcharn Singh Brar, Yuefeng Ruan, Samia Berraies, Walid Hamada, Safa Oufensou, Malini Anudya Jayawardana, Sean Walkowiak, Salim Bourras, Monika C. Dayarathne, Julio Isidro y Sánchez, Fiona M. Doohan, Ágata Gadaleta, Ilaria Marcotuli, Xinyao He, Pawan Kumar Singh, Susanne Dreisigacker, Karim Ammar, et al. (37 authors)

The Plant Genome202516 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20539 PMID: 39757924

Future of durum wheat research and breeding: Insights from early career researchers.

Peters Haugrud AR, Achilli AL, Martínez-Peña R, Klymiuk V

The plant genome2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20453 PMID: 38760906

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

Genome scans capture key adaptation and historical hybridization signatures in tetraploid wheat.

Sertse D, Haile JK, Sari E, Klymiuk V, N'Diaye A, Pozniak CJ, Cloutier S, Kagale S

The plant genome2025

DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20410 PMID: 37974527

Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69

Yinghui Li, Zhen-Zhen Wei, Hanan Sela, Liubov Govta, Valentyna Klymiuk, Rajib Roychowdhury, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Jennifer Ens, Krystalee Wiebe, Valeria Bocharova, Roi Ben‐David, Prerna Balkrishna Pawar, Yuqi Zhang, Samidha Jaiwar, István Molnár, Jaroslav Doležel, Gitta Coaker, Curtis Jerry Pozniak, Tzion Fahima

Plant Communications202399 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100646 PMID: 37415333

Multi-locus genome-wide association studies reveal the genetic architecture of Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat

Jemanesh K. Haile, Demissew Sertse, Amidou N’Diaye, Valentyna Klymiuk, Krystalee Wiebe, Yuefeng Ruan, Harmeet Singh Chawla, María Antonia Henríquez, Lipu Wang, Hadley Randal Kutcher, Barbara Steiner, Hermann Buerstmayr, Curtis Jerry Pozniak

Frontiers in Plant Science202315 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1182548 PMID: 37900749

Historical Selection, Adaptation Signatures, and Ambiguity of Introgressions in Wheat.

Sertse D, You FM, Klymiuk V, Haile JK, N'Diaye A, Pozniak CJ, Cloutier S, Kagale S

International journal of molecular sciences2023

DOI: 10.3390/ijms24098390 PMID: 37176097

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Valentyna Klymiuk

Research

Latest papers

Durum Wheat cv. Svevo Reference Genome Rel.2.0: A Comprehensive Tool for Wheat Genomics

Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat.

Coordinated function of paired NLRs confers Yr84-mediated stripe rust resistance in wheat.

Priority actions for Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat: Insights from the wheat initiative

Future of durum wheat research and breeding: Insights from early career researchers.

Tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom.

Genome scans capture key adaptation and historical hybridization signatures in tetraploid wheat.

Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69

Multi-locus genome-wide association studies reveal the genetic architecture of Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat

Historical Selection, Adaptation Signatures, and Ambiguity of Introgressions in Wheat.

Frequent collaborators

Harmeet Chawla

Curtis Pozniak

H. Kutcher

Randy Kutcher

Pierre Fobert

Alejandro Costamagna

Hadley Kutcher

Curt McCartney

Nicholas Provart

A. Costamagna

Sylvie Cloutier

Gurcharn Brar

Carl Gutwin