Dr Yongfu Tao
Honorary Research Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Beijing Agr. U.
Book Chapter
Borrell, Andrew, van Oosterom, Erik, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, Rodriguez, Daniel, Eyre, Joe, Jordan, David J., Mace, Emma, Singh, Vijaya, Vadez, Vincent, Bell, Mike, Godwin, Ian, Cruickshank, Alan, Tao, Yongfu and Hammer, Graeme (2021). Sorghum. Crop physiology: case histories for major crops. (pp. 196-221) edited by Victor O. Sadras and Daniel F. Calderini. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-819194-1.00005-0
Journal Articles
Wei, Chuanzheng, Gao, Lei, Xiao, Ruixue, Wang, Yanbo, Chen, Bingru, Zou, Wenhui, Li, Jihong, Mace, Emma, Jordan, David and Tao, Yongfu (2024). Complete telomere‐to‐telomere assemblies of two sorghum genomes to guide biological discovery. iMeta, 3 (2) e193. doi: 10.1002/imt2.193
Wang, Yiwei, Li, Pengfeng, Zhu, Yiwang, Shang, Yuping, Wu, Zhiqiang, Tao, Yongfu, Wang, Hongru, Li, Dongxi and Zhang, Cuijun (2024). Transcriptome Profiling Reveals the Gene Network Responding to Low Nitrogen Stress in Wheat. Plants, 13 (3) 371, 371. doi: 10.3390/plants13030371
Menamo, Temesgen, Borrell, Andrew K., Mace, Emma, Jordan, David R., Tao, Yongfu, Hunt, Colleen and Kassahun, Bantte (2023). Genetic dissection of root architecture in Ethiopian sorghum landraces. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 136 (10) 209, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s00122-023-04457-0
Liu, Qingqing, Tao, Yongfu and Ruan, Yong-Ling (2023). How does AT1 increase crop productivity under alkaline stress?. Trends in Plant Science, 28 (11), 1211-1213. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.07.004
Zhang, Shuo, Wang, Jie, He, Wenchuang, Kan, Shenglong, Liao, Xuezhu, Jordan, David R., Mace, Emma S., Tao, Yongfu, Cruickshank, Alan W., Klein, Robert, Yuan, Daojun, Tembrock, Luke R. and Wu, Zhiqiang (2023). Variation in mitogenome structural conformation in wild and cultivated lineages of sorghum corresponds with domestication history and plastome evolution. BMC Plant Biology, 23 (1) 91, 1-17. doi: 10.1186/s12870-023-04104-2
Alahmad, Samir, Kang, Yichen, Dinglasan, Eric, Jambuthenne, Dilani, Robinson, Hannah, Tao, Yongfu, Able, Jason A., Christopher, Jack, Voss-Fels, Kai P., Bassi, Filippo M. and Hickey, Lee T. (2022). A multi-reference parent nested-association mapping population to dissect the genetics of quantitative traits in durum wheat. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 70 (5), 1471-1485. doi: 10.1007/s10722-022-01515-2
Zhi, Xiaoyu, Hammer, Graeme, Borrell, Andrew, Tao, Yongfu, Wu, Alex, Hunt, Colleen, van Oosterom, Erik, Massey-Reed, Sean Reynolds, Cruickshank, Alan, Potgieter, Andries B., Jordan, David, Mace, Emma and George-Jaeggli, Barbara (2022). Genetic basis of sorghum leaf width and its potential as a surrogate for transpiration efficiency. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 135 (9), 3057-3071. doi: 10.1007/s00122-022-04167-z
Zhi, Xiaoyu, Tao, Yongfu, Jordan, David, Borrell, Andrew, Hunt, Colleen, Cruickshank, Alan, Potgieter, Andries, Wu, Alex, Hammer, Graeme, George-Jaeggli, Barbara and Mace, Emma (2021). Genetic control of leaf angle in sorghum and its effect on light interception. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73 (3) erab467, 801-816. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab467
Tao, Yongfu, Trusov, Yuri, Zhao, Xianrong, Wang, Xuemin, Cruickshank, Alan W., Hunt, Colleen, van Oosterom, Erik J., Hathorn, Adrian, Liu, Guoquan, Ian, Godwin D., Botella, Jose R., Mace, Emma S. and Jordan, David R. (2021). Manipulating assimilate availability provides insight into the genes controlling grain size in sorghum. The Plant Journal, 108 (1) tpj.15437, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15437
Tao, Yongfu, Luo, Hong, Xu, Jiabao, Cruickshank, Alan, Zhao, Xianrong, Teng, Fei, Hathorn, Adrian, Wu, Xiaoyuan, Liu, Yuanming, Shatte, Tracey, Jordan, David, Jing, Haichun and Mace, Emma (2021). Extensive variation within the pan-genome of cultivated and wild sorghum. Nature Plants, 7 (6), 766-773. doi: 10.1038/s41477-021-00925-x
Mace, Emma S., Cruickshank, Alan W., Tao, Yongfu, Hunt, Colleen H. and Jordan, David R. (2021). A global resource for exploring and exploiting genetic variation in sorghum crop wild relatives. Crop Science, 61 (1), 150-162. doi: 10.1002/csc2.20332
Menamo, T., Kassahun, B., Borrell, A. K., Jordan, D. R., Tao, Y., Hunt, C. and Mace, E. (2020). Genetic diversity of Ethiopian sorghum reveals signatures of climatic adaptation. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 134 (2), 731-742. doi: 10.1007/s00122-020-03727-5
Wang, Xuemin, Mace, Emma, Tao, Yongfu, Cruickshank, Alan, Hunt, Colleen, Hammer, Graeme and Jordan, David (2020). Large-scale genome-wide association study reveals that drought-induced lodging in grain sorghum is associated with plant height and traits linked to carbon remobilisation. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 133 (11), 3201-3215. doi: 10.1007/s00122-020-03665-2
Tao, Yongfu, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, Bouteillé-Pallas, Marie, Tai, Shuaishuai, Cruickshank, Alan, Jordan, David and Mace, Emma (2020). Genetic diversity of C4 photosynthesis pathway genes in Sorghum bicolor (L.). Genes, 11 (7) 806, 806-15. doi: 10.3390/genes11070806
Tao, Yongfu, Jordan, David R. and Mace, Emma S. (2020). A graph-based pan-genome guides biological discovery. Molecular Plant, 13 (9), 1247-1249. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.07.020
Martin, Anke, Moolhuijzen, Paula, Tao, Yongfu, McIlroy, Judy, Ellwood, Simon R., Fowler, Ryan A., Platz, Greg J., Kilian, Andrzej and Snyman, Lisle (2020). Genomic Regions Associated with Virulence in Pyrenophora teres f. teres Identified by Genome-Wide Association Analysis and Biparental Mapping. Phytopathology, 110 (4), 881-891. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-10-19-0372-R
Tao, Yongfu, Zhao, Xianrong, Wang, Xuemin, Hathorn, Adrian, Hunt, Colleen, Cruickshank, Alan W., van Oosterom, Erik J., Godwin, Ian D., Mace, Emma S. and Jordan, David R. (2020). Large-scale GWAS in sorghum reveals common genetic control of grain size among cereals. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18 (4), 1093-1105. doi: 10.1111/pbi.13284
Liu, Qingcai, Deng, Suining, Liu, Baoshen, Tao, Yongfu, Ai, Haiyue, Liu, Jianju, Zhang, Yongzhong, Zhao, Yan and Xu, Mingliang (2020). A helitron-induced RabGDIα variant causes quantitative recessive resistance to maize rough dwarf disease. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 495, 495. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14372-3
Tao, Yongfu, Jordan, David R. and Mace, Emma S. (2019). Crop genomics goes beyond a single reference genome. Trends in Plant Science, 24 (12), 1072-1074. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.10.001
Tao, Yongfu, Zhao, Xianrong, Mace, Emma, Henry, Robert and Jordan, David (2019). Exploring and exploiting pan-genomics for crop improvement. Molecular Plant, 12 (2), 156-169. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2018.12.016
Mace, Emma, Innes, David, Hunt, Colleen, Wang, Xuemin, Tao, Yongfu, Baxter, Jared, Hassall, Michael, Hathorn, Adrian and Jordan, David (2018). The Sorghum QTL Atlas: a powerful tool for trait dissection, comparative genomics and crop improvement. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 132 (3), 751-766. doi: 10.1007/s00122-018-3212-5
Tao, Yongfu, Mace, Emma, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, Hunt, Colleen, Cruickshank, Alan, Henzell, Robert and Jordan, David (2018). Novel grain weight loci revealed in a cross between cultivated and wild sorghum. The Plant Genome, 11 (2) 170089, 170089. doi: 10.3835/plantgenome2017.10.0089
Noble, Thomas J., Tao, Yongfu, Mace, Emma S., Williams, Brett, Jordan, David R., Douglas, Colin A. and Mundree, Sagadevan G. (2018). Characterization of Linkage Disequilibrium and Population Structure in a Mungbean Diversity Panel. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 2102, 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02102
Tao, Yongfu, Mace, Emma S., Tai, Shuaishuai, Cruickshank, Alan, Campbell, Bradley C., Zhao, Xianrong, Van Oosterom, Erik J., Godwin, Ian D., Botella, Jose R. and Jordan, David R. (2017). Whole-genome analysis of candidate genes associated with seed size and weight in Sorghum bicolor reveals signatures of artificial selection and insights into parallel domestication in cereal crops. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 1237, 1237.1-1237.14. doi: 10.3389/fp/s.2017.01237
Liu, Qingqing, Liu, Huanhuan, Gong, Yangqing, Tao, Yongfu, Jiang, Lu, Zuo, Weiliang, Yang, Qin, Ye, Jianrong, Lai, Jinsheng, Wu, Jianyu, Lubberstedt, Thomas and Xu, Mingliang (2017). An atypical thioredoxin imparts early resistance to sugarcane mosaic virus in maize. Molecular Plant, 10 (3), 483-497. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.02.002
Campbell, Bradley C., Gilding, Edward K., Mace, Emma S., Tai, Shuaishuai, Tao, Yongfu, Prentis, Peter J., Thomelin, Pauline, Jordan, David R. and Godwin, Ian D. (2016). Domestication and the storage starch biosynthesis pathway: signatures of selection from a whole sorghum genome sequencing strategy. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 14 (12), 2240-2253. doi: 10.1111/pbi.12578
Massel, Karen, Campbell, Bradley C., Mace, Emma S., Tai, Shuaishuai, Tao, Yongfu, Worland, Belinda G., Jordan, David R., Botella, Jose R. and Godwin, Ian D. (2016). Whole genome sequencing reveals potential new targets for improving nitrogen uptake and utilization in Sorghum bicolor. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7 (OCTOBER2016) 1544, 1544. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01544
Leng, Pengfei, Ji, Qing, Tao, Yongfu, Ibrahim, Rania, Pan, Guangtang, Xu, Mingliang and Luebberstedt, Thomas (2015). Characterization of sugarcane mosaic virus Scmv1 and Scmv2 resistance regions by regional association analysis in maize. PLoS One, 10 (10) e0140617, e0140617. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140617
Tao, Yongfu, Jiang, Lu, Liu, Qingqing, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Rui, Ingvardsen, Christina Roenn, Frei, Ursula Karoline, Wang, Baobao, Lai, Jinsheng, Luebberstedt, Thomas and Xu, Mingliang (2013). Combined linkage and association mapping reveals candidates for Scmv1, a major locus involved in resistance to sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) in maize. BMC Plant Biology, 13 (1) 162. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-162
Tao, Yongfu, Liu, Qingcai, Wang, Honghong, Zhang, Yanjun, Huang, Xinyi, Wang, Baobao, Lai, Jinsheng, Ye, Jianrong, Liu, Baoshen and Xu, Mingliang (2013). Identification and fine-mapping of a QTL, qMrdd1, that confers recessive resistance to maize rough dwarf disease. BMC Plant Biology, 13 (1) 145. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-145
Hou, Jing, Xing, Yue-xian, Zhang, Yan, Tao, Yong-Fu, Tan, Guo-qing and Xu, Ming-Liang (2013). Identification of quantitative trait loci for resistance to Curvularia leaf spot of maize. Maydica, 58 (1-4), 266-273.
Data Collection
Tao, Yongfu (2020). Sequence data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/9b0260b