Fu, Yong-Bi, Ph.D.

• Research Publications
• Other Science Related Publications

Contact Information:

107 Science Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2
Telephone: 306-956-7642
Fax: 306-956-7246
Email: yong-bi.fu@agr.gc.ca

Areas of Expertise:

• Plant population and conservation genetics
• Crop genetic diversity and domestication
• Molecular characterization and conservation of plant germplasm
• In situ conservation and utilization of native plants
• Molecular markers and DNA sequence analysis

Current Projects:

• Molecular characterization of oat and barley germplasm collections
• Molecular inference of flax domestication and molecular analysis of wild oat species
• Molecular investigation of genetic erosion in Canadian crop gene pools, focusing on wheat and barley
• Molecular diversity analysis of native and endangered plant species, focusing on plains rough fescue and blue grama

Affiliations:

• Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Department of Plant Sciences
• Editorial board member, Diversity
• Associate Editor, Communications in Biometry and Crop Science

Research Publications:

2013:

• Mornkham, T., Wangsomnuk, P.P., Fu, Y.B., Wangsomnuk, P., Jogloy, S., and Patanothai, A. (2013). "Extractions of High Quality RNA from the Seeds of Jerusalem Artichoke and Other Plant Species with High Levels of Starch and Lipid.", Plants, 2, pp. 302-316. doi : 10.3390/plants2020302

2012:

• Fu, Y.B. (2012). "Genetic structure in a core subset of cultivated barley germplasm.", Crop Science, 52(3), pp. 1195-1208. doi : 10.2135/cropsci2011.08.0405
• Fu, Y.B. (2012). "Population-based resequencing analysis of wild and cultivated barley revealed weak domestication signal of selection and bottleneck in the Rrs2 scald resistance gene region.", Genome / Génome, 55(2), pp. 93-104. doi : 10.1139/G11-082
• Fu, Y.B. (2012). "Population-based resequencing revealed an ancestral winter group of cultivated flax: implication for flax domestication processes.", Ecology and Evolution, 2(3), pp. 622-635. doi : 10.1002/ece3.101
• Fu, Y.B. and Horbach, C. (2012). "Genetic Diversity in A Core Subset of Wild Barley Germplasm.", Diversity, 4(2), pp. 239-257. doi : 10.3390/d4020239
• Fu, Y.B., Diederichsen, A., and Allaby, R.G. (2012). "Locus-specific view of flax domestication history.", Ecology and Evolution, 2(1), pp. 139-152. doi : 10.1002/ece3.57
• Mornkham, T., Wangsomnuk, P.P., Wangsomnuk, P., Jogloy, S., Patanothai, A., and Fu, Y.B. (2012). "Comparison of five DNA extraction methods for molecular analyses of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.).", Genetics and Molecular Research, 11(1), pp. 572-581. doi : 10.4238/2012.March.8.5
• Nevo, E., Fu, Y.B., Pavlicek, T., Khalifa, S., Tavasi, M., and Beiles, A. (2012). "Evolution of wild cereals during 28 years of global warming in Israel.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 109(9), pp. 3412-3415. doi : 10.1073/pnas.1121411109
• Pitt, W.M., Bailey, K.L., Fu, Y.B., and Peterson, G.W. (2012). "Biological and genetic characterization of Phoma macrostoma isolates with bioherbicidal activity.", Biocontrol Science and Technology, 22(7), pp. 813-835. doi : 10.1080/09583157.2012.691159
• Uysal, H., Kurt, O., Fu, Y.B., Diederichsen, A., and Kusters, P.M. (2012). "Variation in phenotypic characters of pale flax (Linum bienne Mill.) from Turkey.", Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 59(1), pp. 19-30. doi : 10.1007/s10722-011-9663-z

2011:

• Fu, Y.B. (2011). "Genetic evidence for early flax domestication with capsular dehiscence.", Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 58(8), pp. 1119-1128. doi : 10.1007/s10722-010-9650-9
• Fu, Y.B. and Peterson, G.W. (2011). "Developing genomic resources in two Linum species via 454 pyrosequencing and genomic reduction.", Molecular Ecology Resources, 12(3), pp. 492-500. doi : 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03100.x
• Fu, Y.B. and Peterson, G.W. (2011). "Genetic diversity analysis with 454 pyrosequencing and genomic reduction confirmed the eastern and western division in the cultivated barley gene pool.", Plant Genome, 4(3), pp. 226-237. doi : 10.3835/plantgenome2011.08.0022
• Fu, Y.B., Peterson, G.W., and Richards, K.W. (2011). "Genetic Risk Assessment of a Threatened Remnant Population of Hairy Prairie-Clover (Dalea villosa var. villosa) in the Canadian Prairie.", Diversity, 3(3), pp. 375-389. doi : 10.3390/d30x000x
• Lung’aho, C., Chemining’wa, G.N., Fu, Y.B., Shibairo, S.I., Hutchinson, M.J., and Paniagua, H.G. (2011). "Genetic diversity of Kenyan potato germplasm revealed by simple sequence repeat markers.", American Journal of Potato Research, 88(5), pp. 424-434. doi : 10.1007/s12230-011-9208-1
• Wangsomnuk, P.P., Khampa, S., Jogloy, S., Srivong, T., Patanothai, A., and Fu, Y.B. (2011). "Assessing genetic structure and relatedness of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) germplasm with RAPD, ISSR and SRAP markers.", American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2, pp. 753-764. doi : 10.4236/ajps.2011.26090
• Wangsomnuk, P.P., Khampa, S., Wangsomnuk, P., Jogloy, S., Mornkham, T., Ruttawat, B., Patanothai, A., and Fu, Y.B. (2011). "Genetic diversity of worldwide Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) germplasm as revealed by RAPD markers.", Genetics and Molecular Research, 10(4), pp. 4012-4025. doi : 10.4238/2011.December.12.4

2010:

• Fu, Y.B. (2010). "FPTest: a SAS routine for testing differences in allelic count.", Molecular Ecology Resources, 10(2), pp. 389-392. doi : 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02752.x
• Fu, Y.B. and Allaby, R.G. (2010). "Phylogenetic network of Linum species as revealed by non-coding chloroplast DNA sequences.", Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 57(5), pp. 667-677. doi : 10.1007/s10722-009-9502-7
• Fu, Y.B. and Gugel, R.K. (2010). "Genetic diversity of Canadian elite summer rape (Brassica napus L.) cultivars from the pre- to post-canola quality era.", Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 90(1), pp. 23-33. doi : 10.4141/CJPS09073
• Fu, Y.B. and Peterson, G.W. (2010). "Characterization of expressed sequence tag-derived simple sequence repeat markers for 17 Linum species.", Botany / Botanique, 88(5), pp. 537-543. doi : 10.1139/B10-019
• Fu, Y.B. and Somers, D.J. (2010). "Allelic changes in bread wheat cultivars were associated with long-term wheat trait improvements.", Euphytica, 179(2), pp. 209-225. doi : 10.1007/s10681-010-0235-7
• Fu, Y.B., Peterson, G.W., McCallum, B.D., and Huang, L. (2010). "Population based resequencing analysis of improved wheat germplasm at wheat leaf rust resistance locus Lr21.", Theoretical and Applied Genetics (TAG), 121(2), pp. 271-281. doi : 10.1007/s00122-010-1308-7
• Qiu, J., Bai, Y., Fu, Y.B., and Wilmshurst, J.F. (2010). "Patterns of amplified restriction fragment polymorphism in the germination of Festuca hallii seeds.", Seed Science Research, 20(3), pp. 153-161. doi : 10.1017/S0960258510000188
• Qiu, J., Bai, Y., Fu, Y.B., and Wilmshurst, J.F. (2010). "Spatial variation in temperature thresholds during seed germination of remnant Festuca hallii populations across the Canadian prairie.", Environmental and Experimental Botany, 67(3), pp. 479-486. doi : 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2009.09.002
• Uysal, H., Fu, Y.B., Kurt, O., Peterson, G.W., Diederichsen, A., and Kusters, P.M. (2010). "Genetic diversity of cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) and its wild progenitor pale flax (Linum bienne Mill.) as revealed by ISSR markers.", Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 57(7), pp. 1109-1119. doi : 10.1007/s10722-010-9551-y

2009:

• Fu, Y.B. and Gugel, R.K. (2009). "Genetic variability of Canadian elite cultivars of summer turnip rape (Brassica rapa L.) revealed by simple sequence repeat markers.", Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 89(5), pp. 865-874. doi : 10.4141/CJPS09021
• Fu, Y.B. and Somers, D.J. (2009). "Genome-wide reduction of genetic diversity in wheat breeding.", Crop Science, 49(1), pp. 161-168. doi : 10.2135/cropsci2008.03.0125
• Fu, Y.B., Peterson, G.W., Richards, K.W., Tarn, T.R., and Percy, J.E. (2009). "Genetic diversity of Canadian and exotic potato germplasm revealed by simple sequence repeat markers.", American Journal of Potato Research, 86(1), pp. 38-48. doi : 10.1007/s12230-008-9059-6
• Khan, A.I., Fu, Y.B., and Khan, I.A. (2009). "Genetic diversity of Pakistani cotton cultivars as revealed by simple sequence repeat markers.", Communications in Biometry and Crop Science, 4(1), pp. 21-30.
• Qiu, J., Fu, Y.B., Bai, Y., and Wilmshurst, J.F. (2009). "Genetic variation in remnant Festuca hallii populations is weakly differentiated, but geographically associated across the Canadian Prairie.", Plant Species Biology, 24(3), pp. 156-168. doi : 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2009.00251.x

Other Science Related Publications:

2013:

• You, F.M., Kumar, S., Banik, M., Ragupathy, R., Deyholos, M.K., Fu, Y.B., Sharpe, A.G., and Cloutier, S. (2013). "Ordering the draft genome sequence of flax (Linum usitatissimum).", Plant & Animal Genome XXI Conference, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 12-16, 2013.

2012:

• Biligetu, B., Schellenberg, M.P., and Fu, Y.B. (2012). "AFLP variation in native populations of side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.) and its corresponding selected and multiple-site composite populations", Plant Canada 2012 (joint meeting of the Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA), Canadian Society for Horticultural Science (CSHS), Certified Crop Advisors (CCA), North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)): Adapting Crops to Change, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 16-19, 2012. (Poster)

2009:

• Fu, Y.B. (2009). "Was flax first domesticated for oil or fibre?.", 74th Symposium on Evolution - the Molecular Landscape, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Canada, May 27-June 2, 2009. (Poster)
• Zhou, R., Tsang, E., Fu, Y.B., and Gruber, M.Y. (2009). "Rapid determination of S-Adenosylmethionine and S-Adenosylhomocysteine in plant tissues by UPLC-Tandem Mass Spectrometry.", 5th International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe, Edmonton, AB, Canada, August 30-September 2, 2009. (Poster)