Margaret Krause | College of Agricultural Sciences

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Assistant Professor | Warren Kronstad Wheat Research Chair

she/her

margaret.krause [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-6709

Crop Science Building

Crop Science Building 231B

3050 SW Campus Way

3050 SW Campus Way

Corvallis, OR 97331

At OSU

Affiliated with:

Crop and Soil Science

Headquarters:

OSU Main Campus

Career Links:

Department of Crop and Soil Science

Wheat Breeding and Research

Barley Breeding and Research

Lab Group:

Nathalia Moretti

Laura Helgerson

I accept graduate students for the Crop and Soil Science Department

I can serve on graduate committees

Courses Taught:

PBG 430/530 Plant Genetics (Winter 2024)
PBG 431 Plant Genetics Recitation (Winter 2024)

Professional Accomplishments

Education:

2019, Ph.D., Plant Breeding, Cornell University
2014, B.S., Applied Plant Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

My Awards

Honors and Awards:

2023 - New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award
2021 - Crop Science Society of America Outstanding Paper in Crop Breeding and Genetics
2020 - The Plant Phenome Journal Excellent Reviewer Award
2018 - Barbara McClintock Graduate Student Award, Cornell University
2017 - Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career Award
2014 - Philip C. Hamm Memorial Scholarship in the Plant Sciences, University of Minnesota

My Publications

2023

Journal Article

V. Singh, Krause, M., Sandhu, D., Sekhon, R. S., and Kaundal, A., “Salinity stress tolerance prediction for biomass‐related traits in maize ( Zea mays L.) using genome‐wide markers”, The Plant Genome, 2023.

2022

Book Chapter

J. E. Rutkoski, Krause, M., and Sorrells, M. E., “Breeding Methods: Line Development”, in Wheat improvement – Food security in a changing climate, 1st ed., M. P. Reynolds and Braun, H. - J., Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 69 - 82.

J. E. Rutkoski, Krause, M., and Sorrells, M. E., “Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods”, in Wheat improvement – Food security in a changing climate, 1st ed., M. P. Reynolds and Braun, H. - J., Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 83 - 96.

2021

Journal Article

Bde Jesús Villar-Hernández, Pérez-Elizalde, S., Martini, J. W. R., Toledo, F., Perez-Rodriguez, P., Krause, M., García-Calvillo, I. Delia, Covarrubias-Pazaran, G., and Crossa, J., “Application of multi-trait Bayesian decision theory for parental genomic selection”, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, vol. 11, no. 2, 2021.

M. P. Reynolds, Lewis, J. M., Ammar, K., Basnet, B. R., Crespo-Herrera, L., Crossa, J., Dhugga, K. S., Dreisigacker, S., Juliana, P., Karwat, H., Kishii, M., Krause, M., Langridge, P., Lashkari, A., Mondal, S., Payne, T., Pequeno, D., Pinto, F., Sansaloni, C., Schulthess, U., Singh, R. P., Sonder, K., Sukumaran, S., Xiong, W., and Braun, H. J., “Harnessing translational research in wheat for climate resilience”, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 72, no. 14, pp. 5134 - 5157, 2021.

2020

Journal Article

M. Krause, Mondal, S., Crossa, J., Singh, R. P., Pinto, F., Haghighattalab, A., Shrestha, S., Rutkoski, J., Gore, M. A., Sorrells, M. E., and Poland, J., “Aerial high‐throughput phenotyping enables indirect selection for grain yield at the early generation, seed‐limited stages in breeding programs”, Crop Science, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 3096 - 3114, 2020.

M. Krause, Crossman, S., DuMond, T., Lott, R., Swede, J., Arliss, S., Robbins, R., Ochs, D., and Gore, M. A., “Random forest regression for optimizing variable planting rates for corn and soybean using topographical and soil data”, Agronomy Journal, vol. 112, no. 6, pp. 5045 - 5066, 2020.

Magazine Article

A. Dobbels, Krause, M., McConaughy, S., Kyanam, A., Breitzman, M., Pucci, G., Abadie, T., and Rauscher, J., “Plant Sciences Symposia Series Student Advisory Council Hosts Virtual Plant‐Breeding Symposium”, CSA News, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 39 - 41, 2020.

2019

Journal Article

M. Krause, González-Pérez, L., Crossa, J., Pérez-Rodríguez, P., Montesinos-López, O., Singh, R. P., Dreisigacker, S., Poland, J., Rutkoski, J., Sorrells, M., Gore, M. A., and Mondal, S., “Hyperspectral Reflectance-Derived Relationship Matrices for Genomic Prediction of Grain Yield in Wheat”, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1231 - 1247, 2019.