Research Summary
Genetic bases of plant response to biotic and abiotic stresses and genetic controls of fruit nutritional quality. Of particular interest are resistance to the diseases early blight and late blight and improved fruit quality in tomato.
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Recent Publications
Molecular and biochemical components associated with chilling tolerance in tomato: comparison of different developmental stages
Camalle, M. D., Levin, E., David, S., Faigenboim, A., Foolad, M. R. & Lers, A., Dec 2024, In: Molecular Horticulture. 4, 1, 31.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identification and mapping of late blight resistance QTLs in the wild tomato accession PI 224710 (Solanum pimpinellifolium)
Gao, S. & Foolad, M. R., Oct 2024, In: Molecular Breeding. 44, 10, 63.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Unraveling the genetic basis of quantitative resistance to diseases in tomato: a meta-QTL analysis and mining of transcript profiles
Khojasteh, M., Darzi Ramandi, H., Taghavi, S. M., Taheri, A., Rahmanzadeh, A., Chen, G., Foolad, M. R. & Osdaghi, E., Jul 2024, In: Plant Cell Reports. 43, 7, 184.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identification and mapping of QTLs for late blight resistance in the wild tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium) accession PI 270442 via selective genotyping
Sullenberger, M. T. & Foolad, M. R., 2024, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 15, 1482241.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Physiological genetic variation in tomato fruit chilling tolerance during postharvest storage
David, S., Levin, E., Fallik, E., Alkalai-Tuvia, S., Foolad, M. R. & Lers, A., Sep 8 2022, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 13, 991983.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identification of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270441
Sullenberger, M. T., Jia, M., Gao, S., Ashrafi, H. & Foolad, M. R., Dec 2022, In: Plant Genome. 15, 4, e20251.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genomics and Marker-Assisted Improvement of Vegetable Crops
Simko, I., Jia, M., Venkatesh, J., Kang, B. C., Weng, Y., Barcaccia, G., Lanteri, S., Bhattarai, G. & Foolad, M. R., 2021, In: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 40, 4, p. 303-365 63 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genetic analysis of late blight resistance in a new RIL population of tomato derived from LB-resistant Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270443
Jia, M. & Foolad, M. R., Jun 1 2020, In: Plant Breeding. 139, 3, p. 651-659 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The tomato pan-genome uncovers new genes and a rare allele regulating fruit flavor
Gao, L., Gonda, I., Sun, H., Ma, Q., Bao, K., Tieman, D. M., Burzynski-Chang, E. A., Fish, T. L., Stromberg, K. A., Sacks, G. L., Thannhauser, T. W., Foolad, M. R., Diez, M. J., Blanca, J., Canizares, J., Xu, Y., van der Knaap, E., Huang, S., Klee, H. J. & Giovannoni, J. J. & 1 others, , Jun 1 2019, In: Nature Genetics. 51, 6, p. 1044-1051 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sequencing-based bin map construction of a tomato mapping population, facilitating high-resolution quantitative trait loci detection
Gonda, I., Ashrafi, H., Lyon, D. A., Strickler, S. R., Hulse-Kemp, A. M., Ma, Q., Sun, H., Stoffel, K., Powell, A. F., Futrell, S., Thannhauser, T. W., Fei, Z., Van Deynze, A. E., Mueller, L. A., Giovannoni, J. J. & Foolad, M. R., Mar 2019, In: Plant Genome. 12, 1, 180010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Induced Plant Defenses Against Herbivory in Cultivated and Wild Tomato
Paudel, S., Lin, P. A., Foolad, M. R., Ali, J. G., Rajotte, E. G. & Felton, G. W., Aug 15 2019, In: Journal of Chemical Ecology. 45, 8, p. 693-707 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
HS-SPME-GC-MS analyses of volatiles in plant populations-quantitating compound × individual matrix effects
Burzynski-Chang, E. A., Ryona, I., Reisch, B. I., Gonda, I., Foolad, M. R., Giovannoni, J. J. & Sacks, G. L., Sep 23 2018, In: Molecules. 23, 10, 2436.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identification and mapping of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in tomato accession PI 163245
Ohlson, E. W., Ashrafi, H. & Foolad, M. R., 2018, In: Plant Genome. 11, 180007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genetic analysis of late blight resistance in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270441: Heritability and response to selection
Sullenberger, M. T., Jia, M., Gao, S. & Foolad, M. R., Feb 1 2018, In: Plant Breeding. 137, 1, p. 89-96 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genetic analysis of resistance to tomato late blight in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 163245
Ohlson, E. W. & Foolad, M. R., Jun 1 2016, In: Plant Breeding. 135, 3, p. 391-398 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review