Faculty Profile

M. A. Saghai Maroof, Ph.D.

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Dr. Maroof

Professor of Plant Genomics

Appointment

Teaching : 15%

Research : 85%

Extension : 0%

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Education

  • B.S.Agriculture, Univ. of Tabriz 1975
  • Ph.D. Genetics, Univ. of California, Davis 1981 

Professional Activities and Interests

Courses

Course Number Course Name
CSES/GBCB 5844 Plant Genomics

Current Projects

  • Dissecting Soybean Resistance to Phytophthora by QTL
     Analysis of Plant and Pathogen Expression Profiles

  • Comparative Analysis of Legume Genome Evolution

  • Use of genomics to improve soybean meal digestibility and food quality

Recent Publications

  • Saghai Maroof, M. A., N. M. Glover, R. M. Biyashev, G. R. Buss, and E. A. Grabau . 2008. Genetic basis of the low phytate trait in the soybean line CX1834. Crop Science (in press).

  • Skoneczka, J., M. A. Saghai Maroof, C. Shang, and G. R. Buss. 2008. Identification of candidate gene mutation associated with low stachyose phenotype in soybean line PI200508. Crop Science. (in press).

  • Saghai Maroof, M. A., S. C. Jeong, I. Gunduz, D. M. Tucker, G. R. Buss, and S. A. Tolin. 2008. Pyramiding of soybean mosaic virus resistance genes by marker-assisted selection. Crop Science 48:517-525.

  • Gao, Y., R. M. Biyashev, M. A. Saghai Maroof, N. M. Glover, D. M. Tucker, and G. R. Buss 2008. Validation of low-phytate QTLs and evaluation of seedling emergence of low-phytate soybeans.  Crop Science 48:1355-1364.

  • Saghai Maroof, M. A., Dominic M. Tucker, and Sue A. Tolin. 2008.  Genomics of Viral-Soybean Interactions. In: Stacey, G. (eds.), Genetics and Genomics of soybean. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher, New York.

  • Tyler, B.M., Jiang, R.H.Y., Zhou, L., Tripathy, S., Dou, D., Torto-Alalibo, T., Li, H., Mao, Y., Liu, B., Vega-Sanchez, M., Mideros, S.X., Hanlon, R., Smith, B.M., Krampis, K., Ye, K., Martin, S.S., Dorrance, A.E., Hoeschele, I. and Saghai Maroof, M.A. 2008. Functional genomics and bioinformatics of the Phytophthora sojae-soybean interaction”. In: Gustafson, P., Stacey, G. and Taylor, J. (eds.), The Genomics of Disease. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher, New York.

  • Mammadov, J. A., W.S. Brooks, C.A. Griffey and M.A. Saghai Maroof. 2007. Validating molecular markers for barley leaf rust resistance genes Rph5 and Rph7. Plant Breeding 126:458-463.

  • Tae-Young Hwang, Jung-Kyung Moon, Seok Yu, Kiwoung Yang, Hong Sig Kim, Subbarayalu Mohankumar, Hwan Mook Kim, M. A. Saghai Maroof and Soon-Chun Jeong. 2006. Application of comparative genomics in development of molecular markers tightly linked to the Rsv4 gene in soybean. Genome 49:380-388.

  • Mammadov, J. A., B. J. Steffenson, and M. A. Saghai Maroof. 2005. High-resolution mapping of the barley leaf rust resistance gene Rph5 using barley ESTs and synteny with rice. Theor. Appl. Genet. 111:1651-1660.

  • Hayes, A. J., S. C. Jeong, M. A. Gore, Y. G. Yu, G. R. Buss, S. A. Tolin, and M. A. Saghai Maroof. 2004.  Recombination within a Nucleotide-Binding-Site/Leucine-Rich_Repeat gene cluster produces new variants conditioning resistance to soybean mosaic virus in soybeans. Genetics 166:493-503.

My Work Groups

Keywords

  • plant genomics
  • genome mapping
  •  disease resistance
  • nutritional genomics
  • QTL
  • eQTL