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Brande Wulff 

Associate Professor, Plant Science

Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division 
Center membership :
Center for Desert Agriculture


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Affiliations

Education Profile

  • ​Postdoc, IBMP-CNRS, Strasbourg, France, 2008
  • Human Frontiers Postdoc Fellow, IBMCP-CSIC, Spain, 2005
  • EMBO Postdoc Fellow, IBMCP-CSIC, Spain, 2004
  • PhD, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK, 2001
  • BSc, University of East Anglia, UK, 1997

Research Interests

​Brande's research programme explores the genetics of disease resistance in wheat. This has led to developing fast, new and efficient methods for gene discovery and cloning which use mutant and natural populations followed by sequence alignment to locate genes. Brande has also co-developed a method for halving the generation time of wheat and other crops, in a controlled environment, dramatically speeding up capabilities for research and breeding purposes. His long-term aim is to use cloned genes from wild ancestors of wheat to engineer durable resistance to these diseases in cultivated wheat.

Selected Publications

  • HAFEEZ AN, ARORA S, GHOSH S, GILBERT D, BOWDEN RL, WULFF BBH (2021). Creation and judicious application of a wheat resistance gene atlas. Molecular Plant, 14:1053–1070.
  • GAURAV K, ARORA S, SILVA P, SÁNCHEZ-MARTÍN J, HORSNELL R, GAO L, BRAR GS, WIDRIG V, RAUPP J, SINGH N, WU S, KALE SM, CHINOY C, NICHOLSON P, QUIROZ-CHÁVEZ J, SIMMONDS J, HAYTA S, SMEDLEY MA, HARWOOD W, PEARCE S, GILBERT D, KANGARA N, GARDENER C, FORNER-MARTÍNEZ M, LIU J, YU G, BODEN S, PASCUCCI A, GHOSH S, HAFEEZ AN, O'HARA T, WAITES J, CHEEMA J, STEUERNAGEL B, PATPOUR M, JUSTESEN AF, LIU S, RUDD JC, AVNI R, SHARON A, STEINER B, PKIRANA RP, BUERSTMAYR H, MEHRABI AA, NASYROVA FY, CHAYUT N, MATNY O, STEFFENSON BJ, SANDHU N, CHHUNEJA P, LAGUDAH E, ELKOT AF, TYRRELL S, BIAN X, DAVEY RP, SIMONSEN M, SCHAUSER L, TIWARI VK, KUTCHER HR, HUCL P, LI A, LIU D-C, MAO L, XU S, BROWN-GUEDIRA G, FARIS J, DVORAK J, LUO M-C, KRASILEVA K, LUX T, ARTMEIER S, MAYER KFX, UAUY C, MASCHER M, BENTLEY*AR, KELLER* B, POLAND* J, WULFF* BBH (2021). Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement. Nature Biotechnology.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01058-4

  • STEUERNAGEL B, WITEK K, KRATTINGER SG, RAMIREZ-GONZALES RH, SCHONBEEK HJ, YU G, BAGGS E, WITEK AI, YADAV I, KRASILEVA KV, JONES JDG, UAUY C, KELLER B, RIDOUT CJ, WULFF BBH (2020). NLR-Annotator tool enables annotation of the intracellular immune receptor repertoire. Plant Physiology, 183:468–482.

  • WULFF BBH, JONES JDG (2020). Breeding a fungal gene into wheat. Science 368:822-823. 

  • HICKEY LT, HAFEEZ A, ROBINSON H, JACKSON SA, LEAL-BERTIOLI SCM, TESTER M, GAO C, GODWIN ID, HAYES BJ, WULFF BBH (2019). Breeding crops to feed 10 billion. Nature Biotechnology 37:744-754 
  • ARORA S, STEUERNAGEL B, GAURAV K, CHANDRAMOHAN S, LONG Y, MATNY O, JOHNSON R, ENK J, PERIYANNAN S, NARINDER S, HATTA MAMD, ATHIYANNAN N, CHEEMA J, YU G, KANGARA N, GHOSH S, SZABO LJ, POLAND J, BARIANA H, JONES JDG, BENTLEY AR, AYLIFFE M, OLSON E, XU SS, STEFFENSON BJ, LAGUDAH E, WULFF BBH (2019). Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics. Nature Biotechnology 37:139-143. 

  • DHUGGA KS, WULFF BBH (2018). Wheat, the cereal abandoned by GM. Science 361:451-452.
  • STEUERNAGEL B, PERIYANNAN SK, HERNÁNDEZ-PINZÓN I, WITEK K, ROUSE MN, YU G, HATTA A, AYLIFFE M, BARIANA H, JONES JDG, LAGUDAH* ES, WULFF* BBH (2016). Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture. Nature Biotechnology, 34:652-5.