Associate Professor - Cereal genetics and cytogenetics
Office: Crops 431A
Phone: 541-737-5879
Fax: 541-737-1589
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Department Website: Department of Crop and Soil Science
Personal Website: Applied Cereal Genomics
Vita: Short
Kalavacharla, V. K. Hossain, O. Riera-Lizarazu, Y. Gu, S.S. Maan, and S.F. Kianian. 2009. Radiation hybrid mapping in crop plants. Adv. Agron. 102: (in press)Johnson, E.B., V.J. Nalam, R.S. Zemetra, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2008. Mapping the compactum locus in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and its relationship to other spike morphology genes of the Triticeae. Euphytica 163:193-201.
Riera-Lizarazu, O., M.I. Vales, and S.F. Kianian. 2008. Radiation hybrid (RH) and HAPPY mapping in plants. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 120: 233-240.
Balyan, H.S., N. Sreenivasulu, O. Riera-Lizarazu, P. Azhaguvel, and S. F. Kianian. 2008. Mutagenesis and high-throughput functional genomics in cereal crops: current status. Adv. Agron. 98:357-417.
Okagaki, R.J., M.S. Jacobs, A.O. Stec, R.G. Kynast, E. Buescher, H.W. Rines, M.I. Vales, O. Riera-Lizarazu, M. Schneerman, G. Doyle, K.L. Friedman, R.W. Staub, D.F. Weber, T.L. Kamps, I.F.E. Amarillo, C.D. Chase, H.W. Bass, R.L. Phillips. 2008. Maize centromere mapping: a comparison of physical and genetic strategies. J. Hered. 99:85-93.
Leonard, J.M., C.J.W. Watson, A. Carter, J. Hansen, R.S. Zemetra, D.K. Santra, K.G. Campbell, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2008. Identification of a candidate gene for the wheat endopeptidase Ep-D1 locus and two other STS markers linked to the eyespot resistance gene Pch1. Theor. Appl. Genet. 116:261-270.
Nalam, V.J., M.I. Vales, C.J.W. Watson, E.B. Johnson, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2007. Map-based analysis of genetic loci on chromosome 2D that affect glume tenacity and threshability, components of the free-threshing habit in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 116:135-145.
Gandhi, H., C.A. Mallory-Smith, C.J.W. Watson, M.I. Vales, R.S. Zemetra, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2006. Hybridization between wheat and jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica) under field conditions. Weed Science 54:1073-1079.
Kalavacharla, V., K.G Hossain, Y. Gu, O. Riera-Lizarazu, M.I. Vales, S. Bhamidimarri, J.L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, S.S. Maan, and S.F. Kianian. 2006. High-resolution radiation hybrid map of wheat chromosome 1D. Genetics 173:1089-1099.
Perez-Jones, A. C.A. Mallory-Smith, O. Riera-Lizarazu, C.J.W Watson, Z. Wang, M. Rehmans, and R.S. Zemetra. 2006. Introgression of a strawbreaker foot rot (Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides) resistance gene from winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) into jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica). Crop Science 46:2155-2160.
Nalam, V.J., M.I. Vales, C.J.W. Watson, S.F. Kianian and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2006. Map-based analysis of genes affecting the brittle rachis character in tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 112: 373-381.
Gandhi, H., M.I. Vales, C.J.W. Watson, C.A. Mallory-Smith, N. Mori, M. Rehman, R.S. Zemetra, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2005. Chloroplast and nuclear microsatellite analysis of Aegilops cylindrica. Theor. Appl. Genet. 111: 561-572.
Vales, M.I., O. Riera-Lizarazu, H.W. Rines, and R.L. Phillips. 2004. Transmission of maize chromosome 9 rearrangements in oat-maize radiation hybrids. Genome 47: 1202-1210.
Hossain, K.G., O. Riera-Lizarazu, V. Kalavacharla, M.I. Vales, S.S.Maan, S.F. Kianian. 2004. Radiation hybrid mapping of the species cytoplasm specific (scsae) gene in wheat. Genetics 168: 415-423.
Hossain, K.G., O. Riera-Lizarazu, V. Kalavacharla, M.I. Vales, J.L. Rust, S.S.Maan, and S.F. Kianian. 2004. Molecular cytogenetic characterization of an alloplasmic durum wheat line with a portion of chromosome 1D of Triticum aestivum carrying the scsae gene. Genome 47: 206-214.
Jantasuriyarat, C., M. I. Vales, C.J.W. Watson, and O. Riera-Lizarazu. 2004. Identification and mapping of genetic loci affecting free-threshing habit and spike compactness in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 108: 261-273.
Kroiss, L.J., P. Tempalli, J.L. Hansen, M.I. Vales, O. Riera-Lizarazu, R.S. Zemetra, and C.A. Mallory-Smith. 2004. Marker-assessed retention of wheat chromatin in wheat (Triticum aestivum) by jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica) backcross hybrids. Crop Science 44: 1429-1433.
Matus, I., A. Corey, T. Filichkin, P. M. Hayes, M. I. Vales, J. Kling, O. Riera-Lizarazu, K. Sato, W. Powell, and R. Waugh. 2003. Development and characterization of recombinant chromosome substitution lines (RCSLs) using Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum as a source of donor alleles in a Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare background. Genome 46:1010-1023.
