Douglas R. Cook

Douglas Cook

Professor

  • Plant Pathology

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.

Fayyaz A, Robinson G, Chang PL, Bekele D, Yimer SM, Carrasquilla-Garcia N, Negash K, Surendrarao A, von Wettberg EJB, Kemal SA, Tesfaye K, Fikre A, Farmer AD, Cook DR. (2023) Hiding in plain sight: Genome-wide recombination and a dynamic accessory genome drive diversity in Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 120(27): e2220570120. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220570120.
 
Moenga S, Gai Y, Carrasquilla-Garcia N, Perilla-Henao LM and Cook DR (2020) Gene co-expression analysis reveals transcriptome divergence between wild and cultivated chickpea under drought stress. Plant Journal doi:10.1111/TPJ.14988.
 

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.

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plant biology or plant pathology Chickpea