Position Title
Professor
- Plant Pathology
- 530-754-6561
- drcook@ucdavis.edu
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Selected Publications:
Alford BA, Bekele D, Yimer SM, Fayyaz A, Carrasquilla-Garcia N, Chang PL, Badger C, Surendrarao A, Munis MFH,Tesfaye K, Fikre A, Cook DR (2024) Microbial community analysis in an agricultural context offers insight into complex origins of plant disease. Phytobiomes, available in First Look https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/toc/pbiomes/0/ja.
Greenlon A, Chang PL, Damtew ZM, Muleta A, Carrasquilla-Garcia N and Cook DR (2019) Global-level population genomics reveals differential effects of geography and phylogeny on horizontal gene transfer in soil bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116:15200-15209. doi/10.1073/pnas.1900056116.
von Wettberg EJB, Chang PL, Başdemir F, Carrasquila-Garcia N, Korbu LB, Moenga SM, Bedada G, Greenlon A, Moriuchi KS, Singh V, Cordeiro MA, Noujdina NV, Dinegde KN, Sani SGAS, Getahun F, Vance LC, Bergmann E, Lindsay D, Mamo BE, Warschefsky EJ, Dacosta-Calheiros E, Marques E, Yilmaz MA, Cakmak A, Rose J, Migneault A, Krieg CP, Saylak S, Temel H, Friesen ML, Siler E, Akhmetov Z, Ozcelik H, Kholova J, Can J, Gaur P, Yildirim M, Sharma H, Vadez V, Tesfaye K, Fikre A Woldemedhin, Tar’an B, Aydogan A, Bukun B, Penmetsa RV, Berger J, Kahraman A, Nuzhdin SV, Cook DR (2018). Ecology and genomics of an important crop wild relative as a prelude to agricultural innovation. Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-02867-z.
Varshney, R.K. et al., & Cook, D.R. (2013) Draft genome sequence of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) provides a resource for trait improvement. Nature Biotechnology 31:240-246.
Young, N.D et al. (2011) The Genome Sequence of Medicago truncatula and the Evolution of Nodulation. Nature 480:520-4.
R. Varma Penmetsa, Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia, Emily M Bergmann, Lisa Vance, Brenna Castro, Mulualem T. Kassa, Birinchi K. Sarma, Subhojit Datta, Anuja Dubey, Neha Gujaria, Jong-Min Baek1, Jimmy E Woodward, Andrew D Farmer, Clarice J Coyne, Eric J.B. von Wettberg, Rajeev K Varshney, Douglas R Cook (2016) Multiple post-domestication origins of kabuli chickpea through allelic variation in a diversification-associated transcription factor. New Phytologist 211:1440-1451
Choi, H.-K., Mun, J.-H., Kim, D.-J., Zhu, H., Baek, J.-M., Mudge, J., Roe, B., Ellis, T.H.N., Doyle, J., Kiss, G.B., Young, N.D., and Cook, D.R. (2004) Estimating genome conservation between crop and model legume species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:15289-15294.
Ané, J.M., Kiss, G.B., Riely, B.K., Penmetsa, R.V., Ayax, C., Lévy, J., Debellé, F., Baek, J.M., Kalo, P., Roseberg, C., Roe, B.A., Long, S.R., Dénarié, J., and Cook, D.R. (2004). Medicago truncatula DMI1 required for bacterial and fungal symbioses in legumes. Science 303:1364-1367.
Penmetsa, R.V. and Cook, D. (1997). A legume ethylene-insensitive mutant hyperinfected by its rhizobial symbiont. Science 275, 527-530.