Jorge Dubcovsky
Professor
jdubcovsky@ucdavis.edu

Plant Science

Office
281 Hunt Hall
752-5159


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Degrees:
Ph.D. - University of Buenos Aires
Research Interests:

My research is focused on wheat geneticas and wheat improvement
Professional Societies:
American Assocaition for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
Crop Science Society of America
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Agronomy and Horticulture  
Publications:
  • Dubcovsky J, and J Dvorak. 2007. Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Science 316: 1862-1866
  • Yan, L., D. Fu, C. Li, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, M. Bonafede, A. Sanchez, M. Valarik, and J. Dubcovsky. 2006. The wheat and barley vernalization gene VRN3 is an orthologue of FT. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103: 19581-19586.
  • Uauy C., A. Distelfeld, T. Fahima, A. Blechl, J. Dubcovsky. 2006. A NAC gene regulating senescence improves grain protein, zinc and irons content in wheat. Science 314:1298-1300.
  • Yan, L., A. Loukoianov, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, W. Ramakrishna, P. SanMiguel, J.L. Bennetzen, V. Echenique, and J. Dubcovsky. 2004. The wheat VRN2 gene is a flowering repressor down-regulated by vernalization. Science 303:1640-1644.
  • Yan, L., A. Loukoianov, G. Tranquilli, M. Helguera, T. Fahima, and J. Dubcovsky. 2003. Positional cloning of wheat vernalization gene VRN1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. US 100:6263-6268.
  • Valárik, M., A. M. Linkiewicz, and J. Dubcovsky. 2006. A microcolinearity study at the earliness per se gene Eps-Am1 region reveals an ancient duplication that preceded the wheat - rice divergence. Theor Appl Genet 112: 945 - 957.
  • Miller A. K., G. Galiba, and J. Dubcovsky. 2006. A cluster of eleven CBF transcription factors is located at the frost tolerance locus Fr-Am2 in Triticum monococcum. Mol. Gen. Genomics. 275: 193-203
  • Dubcovsky, J. , A. Loukoianov, D. Fu, M. Valarik, A. Sanchez & L. Yan. 2005. Effect of photoperiod on the regulation of wheat vernalization genes VRN1 and VRN2. Plant Molecular Biology. 60:469-480
  • Loukoianov, A, L Yan, A Blechl, A Sanchez, and J Dubcovsky, 2005. Regulation of VRN-1 vernalization genes in normal and transgenic polyploid wheat. Plant Physiol. 138:2364-2373
  • Fu D, P. Szucs, L. Yan, M. Helguera, J. S. Skinner, P. Hayes P, and J. Dubcovsky. 2005. Large deletions in the first intron of the VRN-1 vernalization gene are associated with spring growth habit in barley and polyploid wheat. Mol. Gen. Genomics. 273: 54 - 65.
  • Fu, D., M. Dunbar, J. Dubcovsky. 2006. Wheat VIN3-like PHD finger genes are up-regulated by vernalization. Mol. Gen. Genomics 277: 301-313
  • Dubcovsky J, W Ramakrishna, P SanMiguel, CS Busso, L Yan, BA Shiloff and JL Bennetzen. 2001. Comparative sequence analysis of colinear barley and rice BACs. Plant Physiology. 125:1342-1353
Laboratory Personnel:
Wheat molecular genetics laboratory
http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/dubcovsky/
Five postdocs and 3 PhD students

Field Sites:
Field Head Quarters
Teaching Interests:
Experimental design and ANOVA (PLS205) http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/AGR205/Home.htm
Applied Bioinformatics (BIT150) http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/BIT150/Home.htm