Faculty
J. Giles Waines
Director, Botanic Gardens, and Herbarium;
Professor of Genetics and Geneticist (Ph.D., 1969, University of California, Riverside)
Office: 2117 Batchelor Hall
Phone: (951)827-3706
Fax: (951) 827-4437
Email: giles.waines@ucr.edu
Comparative root biomass, drought tolerance, nutrient-uptake and grain yield in wheat and rye/wheat translocation lines and the relevance of selecting for root characters for sustainable crop production. Comparative fertilizer uptake and fertilizer-use efficiency in near- isogenic lines for root biomass in wheat. Analysis of genetic variation in landrace and wild accessions of cereals and legumes. Gene flow in cereals and legumes. Integrated genetic map of loci controlling root characters in wheat. Comparative pollination biology of domesticated and wild Phaseolus beans and how this might have changed in domestication. Breeding of ornamental lilacs and salvias..
Some Representative Publications:
Sharma S, Bhat PR, Ehdaie B, Close TJ, Lukaszewski AJ, Waines JG. 2009. Integrated genetic map and genetic analysis of a region associated with root traits on the short arm of rye chromosome 1 in bread wheat. Theoretical & Applied Genetics 119:783-793.
Ehdaie B, Waines JG. 2008. Larger root system increases water-nitrogen uptake and grain yield in bread wheat. In R. Appels ed. Proc. 11th. Int. Wheat Genet. Symp. Brisbane, Qld. Australia vol.2:659-661.
Ehdaie B, Alloush GA, Waines JG. 2008. Genotypic variation in linear rate of grain growth and contribution of stem reserves to grain yield in wheat. Field Crops Research 106:34-43.
Bhat PR, Lukaszewski AJ, Cui X, Xu J, Svensson J, Wanamaker S, Waines JG, Close TR. 2007. Mapping translocation breakpoints using a wheat microarray. Nucleic Acids Research 35:2936-2943.
Waines JG, Ehdaie B. 2007. Domestication and Crop Physiology: Roots of green-revolution wheat. Annals of Botany 100:991-998.
Ehdaie B, Alloush GA, Madore MA, Waines JG. 2006. Genotypic variation for stem reserves and mobilization in wheat: II. Postanthesis changes in internode water-soluble carbohydrates. Crop Sci. 46:2093-2103.
Waines JG, Ehdaie B. 2005. Optimizing root characters and grain yield in wheat. Czech J. Genet. Plant Breed. 41:326-330. Special Issue.