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Associate Professor, Plant Science
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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.
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.