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Current Research Areas:
· Wheat and oat genetics and breeding for important agronomic traits
· Genetics and breeding for resistance to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Hessian fly, and fungal diseases
· Application of DNA marker assisted selection in an ongoing plant improvement program

Investigators:
Lingrang Kong, Andy Linvill, Dan McFatridge

Current Graduate Student Advisees:
Steve Baluch, Martin Medina, Brett Ochs, Kristen Rinehart, Nathan VanOpdorp, Mike Vercauteren

Most Significant Publications:

Kong L, SE Cambron and HW Ohm. 2008. Hessian fly resistance genes H16 and H17 are mapped to a resistance gene cluster in the distal region of chromosome 1AS in wheat.
Molecular Breeding 21:183-194.

Kong L, HW Ohm, and JM Anderson. 2007. Expression analysis of defense-related genes in wheat in response to infection by Fusarium graminearum. Genome 50:1038-1048.

Shen X and H Ohm. 2007. Molecular mapping of Thinopyrum-derived Fusarium head blight resistance in common wheat. Mol Breeding 20:131-140.

Uphaus J, E Walker, M Shankar, H Golzar, R Loughman, M Francki and H Ohm. 2007. QTL identified for resistance to Stagonospora glume blotch in wheat in the USA and Australia. Crop Sci 47:1813-1822.

Giovanini MP, DP Putoff, JA Nemacheck, O Mittapalli, KD Saltzmann, HW Ohm, RH Shukle, and CE Williams. 2006. Gene-for-gene defense of wheat against the Hessian fly lacks a classical oxidative burst. MPMI 19:1023-1033. (cover article)

Giovanini MP, KD Saltzmann, DP Puthoff, M Gonzalo, HW Ohm, and CE Williams. 2006. A novel wheat gene encoding a putative chitin-binding lectin is associated with resistance against Hessian fly. Molecular Plant Path 8:69-82.

Shen X, MG Francki, and HW Ohm, 2006. A resistance-like gene identified by EST mapping and its association with a QTL controlling Fusarium head blight infection on wheat chromosome 3BS. Genome 49:631-635.

Shen X, and H Ohm. 2006. Fusarium head blight resistance derived from Lophopyrum  elongatum chromosome 7E and its augmentation with Fhb1 in wheat. Plant Breed.  125:424-429.

Bonafede M*, L Kong, G Tranquilli, H Ohm, and J Dubcovsky. 2007. Reduction of a Triticum monococcum chromosome segment carrying the softness genes Pina and Pinb translocated to bread wheat. Crop Sci 47:821-828. 

Teaching: 
Agronomy 480 - Plant Genetics
Agronomy 605 - Advanced Plant Breeding
Counsel undergraduate students

Professional Experience:
Distinguished Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, 2004-present
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, 1983-2004
Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, 1977-1983
Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, 1972-1977

Awards and Honors:
Meritorious Service Award; Scientific, Technical and Research Commission of the Organization of
  African Unity, 1989 (contributions to Semi-Arid Food Grains Research and Development, West
  Africa)
Crops and Soils Merit Award, Indiana Crop Improvement Association, 1990
Fellow, Crop Science Society of America, 1990
Fellow, American Society of Agronomy, 1991
Agronomic Achievement-Crops, American Society of Agronomy, 1994
School of Agriculture Team Award, Purdue University, 2000
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001
Certificate of Distinction, Purdue Ag Alumni Association, 2005

Education:
B.S., University of Minnesota, 1967
M.S., North Dakota State University, 1969
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1972

Date joined staff:  January 1972

Last updated:  January, 2008