Publications

Publications (2009 – present)
(* indicates students or postdocs under Dr. Brummer’s direction)

Brummer, E.C. and M.D. Casler. 2014. Cool-season forages. In S. Smith, B. Diers, J. Specht, and B. Carver (eds.). Genetic gain in major U.S. field crops. CSSA Spec. Publ. 33. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA. Madison, WI. doi:0.2135/cssaspecpub33.c3.

Li*, X., Y. Han, Y. Wei*, A. Acharya*, A.D. Farmer, J. Ho, M.J. Monteros, and E.C. Brummer. 2014. Development of an alfalfa SNP array and its use to evaluate patterns of population structure and linkage disequilibrium. PLoS One 9:e84329. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084329.

Bhattarai, K., E.C. Brummer, and M.J. Monteros. 2013. Alfalfa as a bioenergy crop. In M.C. Saha, H.S. Bhandari, and J.H. Bouton (eds.). Bioenergy Feedstocks: Breeding and Genetics. Wiley, New York. doi: 10.1002/9781118609477.ch10.

Brummer, E.C. 2013. Global impact of sown temperate pastures on productivity and ecosystem stability – what progress have we made? (Refereed keynote paper) In D. Michalk et al. (eds.) Revitalising grasslands to sustain our communities. 22nd Int. Grassland Congr., Sydney, Australia 15-19 September 2013.

Khu, D.M., R. Reyno*, Y. Han, P. Zhao, J.H. Bouton, E.C. Brummer and M. Monteros. 2013. Identification of aluminum tolerance QTLs in tetraploid alfalfa. Crop Sci. 53:148-163. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2012.03.0181.

Olmstead*, J., M.D. Casler, and E.C. Brummer. 2013. Genetic variability for biofuel traits in a circumglobal reed canarygrass collection. Crop Sci. 53:524-531, doi: 10.2135/cropsci2012.01.0003.

Reyno*, R., D.-M. Khu, M.J. Monteros, J.H. Bouton, W. Parrott, and E.C. Brummer. 2013. Evaluation of two transgenes for aluminum tolerance in alfalfa. Crop Sci. 53:1581-1588. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2012.12.0676.

Monteros, M.J., Y. Han, and E.C. Brummer. 2013. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.): Biology, Agronomy, Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Breeding. In: H. Cai and T. Yamada. Encyclopedia of Plant Genomics: Forage Crops. Scientific Publishers, Inc. [in press].

Serba, D., L. Wu, G. Daverdin, B.A. Bahri, X. Wang, A. Kilian, J.H. Bouton, E.C. Brummer, M.C. Saha, and K.M. Devos. 2013. Linkage maps of lowland and upland tetraploid switchgrass ecotypes. Bioenergy Res. [in press].

Collier, S.M., E.C. Brummer, W.T. Barber, T.S. Cox, R. Johnson, S.C. Murray, R.T. Olsen, R.C. Pratt, and A.M. Thro. 2012. A response to Honnay et al. Frontiers Ecol. Environ. 10:121-122.

Li, X., A. Acharya, A.D. Farmer, J.A. Crow, A.K. Bharti, R.S. Kramer, Y. Wei, Y. Han, J. Gou, G.D. May, M.J. Monteros, and E.C. Brummer. 2012. Prevalence of single-nucleotide polymorphism among 27 diverse alfalfa genotypes as assessed by transcriptome sequencing. BMC Genomics 13:568. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-568.

Sakiroglu*, M., S. Sherman-Broyles, A. Story, K.J. Moore, J.J. Doyle, and E.C. Brummer. 2012. Patterns of linkage disequilibrium and association mapping in diploid alfalfa (M. sativa L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 125:577-590.