

Publications
Featuring ACGG students and associated postocs from JLU, UQ, JKI and HGU
2025
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Ugwuanyi A, Thomas GF, Tietgen H, Dreyer F, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ (2025) Developmental stage‐dependent gene expression modulates maternal control of seed vicine biosynthesis in faba bean. Legume Sci 7 (4), e70057, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leg3.70057
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Häuser C, Mudke A, Arshad K, Alatrash H, Dudley C, Smith M, Schiessl S (2025) The dark side of stress response: Night temperature regimes drive distinct abiotic pathways in legumes. Plant Cell Env 0: 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.70276
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Schlichtermann R, Häuser C, Weber SE, Scheer L, Tietgen H, Welna G, Schiessl SV, Wittkop B, Snowdon RJ (2025) Enhancing faba bean breeding efficiency through insect pollination and smart crossing schemes, Crop J, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2025.08.010
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Weber S, Eckert A, Abbadi A, Ahlemeyer J, Shah S, Snowdon R, Stahl A (2025) Genetic dissection of plant architecture reveals haplotypes controlling sink-related traits in oilseed rape under limited nitrogen fertilization. BMC Plant Biol 25: 1138, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-07035-2
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Kravcov N, Neitzert L, Snowdon R, Windpassinger S (2025) Genetic diversity and genome-wide associations for frost survival in sorghum. BMC Plant Biol 25, 966, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-07014-7
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Golicz AA, Yildiz G, Weber S, Kox T, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ, Zanini SF (2025) Graphical pangenomics-enabled characterisation of structural variant impact on gene expression in Brassica napus. Theor Appl Genet 138, 91. doi: 10.1007/s00122-025-04867-2
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Ugwuanyi S, Makhoul M, Golicz AA, Obermeier C, Snowdon RJ (2025) Multiple copy number variants of VC1 gene reveal single-copy expression as a key determinant of vicine content. Front Plant Sci 16:1565210, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1565210
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Weber SE, Roscher-Ehrig L, Zanini S, Yildiz G, Abbadi A, Kox T, Golicz A, Snowdon RJ (2025) Single-cross prediction with imputed multi-omic data: A case study in rapeseed. Genome 68: 389, https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2025-0010
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Neitzert L, Kravcov N, Wittkop B, Snowdon RJ, Windpassinger S (2025) Reproductive Cold Stress in Contrasting Sorghum Genotypes: Is Pollen Fertility Really the Crucial Trait? Plant Direct 9:e70065, https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70065
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Augustine S, Cherian A, Paridhi P, Ugwuanyi S, Rashid M, Knoblauch B, Tzigos S, Pullamsetti S, Snowdon RJ (2025) Electrical Current-Mediated Transformation for Efficient Plant Genome Editing: A Case Study in Faba Bean. Legume Sci 7:e70031 https://doi.org/10.1002/leg3.70031
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Yildiz G, Zanini SF, Weber SE, Kopalli V, Kox T, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ, Golicz AA (2025) Graphical pangenomics-enabled characterization of structural variant impact on gene expression in Brassica napus. Theor Appl Genet 138:91
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Ugwuanyi S, Tietgen H, Makhoul M, Obermeier C, Snowdon RJ (2025) Novel gene-copy-specific KASP Markers for efficient marker-assisted development of low vicine faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Plant Breeding https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13276
2024
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Moritz A, Eckert A, Vukasovic S, Snowdon R, Stahl A (2024) Physiological phenotyping of transpiration response to vapour pressure deficit in wheat. BMC Plant Biol 24:1032. doi: 10.1186/s12870-024-05692-3.
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Mikwa E, Wittkop B, Windpassinger SM, Weber SE, Ehrhardt D, Snowdon RJ (2024) Early exposure to phosphorus starvation induces genetically determined responses in Sorghum bicolor roots. Theor Appl Genet 137: 220, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-024-04728-4
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Töpfer V, Melzer M, Snowdon RJ, Stahl A, Matros A, Wehner G (2024) PEG treatment is unsuitable to study root related traits as it alters root anatomy in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). BMC Plant Biol 24: 856, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-024-05529-z
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Montero-Tena JA, Abdollahi Sisi N, Kox T, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ, Golicz AA (2024) haploMAGIC: accurate phasing and detection of recombination in multiparental populations despite genotyping errors. G3 14, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae109
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Roscher-Ehrig L, Weber SE, Abbadi A, Malenica M, Abel S, Hemker R, Snowdon RJ, Wittkop B, Stahl A (2024) Phenomic selection for hybrid rapeseed breeding. Plant Phenomics 6: 0215, https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/plantphenomics.0215
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Kang Y, Alahmad S, Van Haeften S, Akinlade O, Tong J, Dinglasan E, Voss-Fels KP, Potgieter AB, Borrell AK, Makhoul M, Obermeier C, Snowdon R, Mace E, Jordan DR, Hickey LT (2024) Mapping quantitative trait loci for seminal root angle in a selected durum wheat population. The Plant Genome 18, e20490, doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20490
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Makhoul M, Schlichtermann R, Ugwuanyi S, Weber SE, Voss-Fels KP, Stahl A, Zetzsche H, Wittkop B, Snowdon RJ, Obermeier C (2024) Novel PHOTOPERIOD-1 gene variants associate with yield-related and root-angle traits in European bread wheat. Theor Appl Genet 137, 125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-024-04634-9
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Weber S, Roscher-Ehrig L, Kox T, Abbadi A, Werner CR, Stahl A, Snowdon RJ (2024) Genomic prediction in Brassica napus: Evaluating the benefit of imputed whole-genome sequencing data. Genome 67: 0126, https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/gen-2023-0126
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Vukasovic S, Eckert AH, Moritz AL, Borsch C, Rudloff S, Snowdon RJ, Stahl A (2024) Effect of a QTL on wheat chromosome 5B associated with enhanced root dry mass on transpiration and nitrogen uptake under contrasting drought scenarios in wheat. BMC Plant Biol 24:83, https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-024-04756-8
2023
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Weber SE, Chawla HS, Ehrig L, Hickey LT, Frisch M, Snowdon RJ 2023) Accurate prediction of quantitative traits with failed SNP calls in canola and maize. Front Plant Sci 14, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1221750
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Weber SE, Frisch M, Snowdon RJ, Voss-Fels KP (2023) Haplotype blocks for genomic prediction: a comparative evaluation in multiple crop datasets. Front Plant Sci 14, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1217589
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Difabachew YF, Frisch M, Langstroff AL, Stahl A, Wittkop B, Snowdon RJ, Koch M, Kirchhoff M, Cselényi L, Wolf M, Förster J, Weber S, Okoye UJ, Zenke-Philippi C (2023) Genomic prediction with haplotype blocks in wheat. Front Plant Sci 14: 1168547. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1168547
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Yildiz G, Zanini S, Afsharyan N, Obermeier C, Snowdon R, Golicz A (2023) Benchmarking Oxford Nanopore read alignment-based structural variant detection tools in crop plant genomes. The Plant Genome e20314, https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20314
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Tovignan TK, Basha Y, Windpassinger S, Augustine SM, Snowdon R, Vukasovic S (2023) Agronomy 13: 722, https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13030722