Venkat Ganaparthi

Graduate student
Coastal Research and Education Center

Office: 2700 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC
Phone: 701-781-3923

Email: vganapa@clemson.edu
Personal Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vdpxvEoAAAAJ&hl=en

Educational Background

M.S Plant Sciences
North Dakota State University 2020

B.S Agriculture
ANGRAU 2017

Research Interests

I am interested in understanding the genetics of disease resistance and breeding for quantitative traits. My current work focuses on developing high-throughput molecular markers for Fusarium wilt race 2 resistance and developing cultivated watermelon lines with Fusarium wilt race 2 resistance.

Publications

Ganaparthi, V., Wechter, W., Levi, A., Branham, S. 2024. Mapping and validation of Fusarium wilt race 2 resistance QTL from Citrullus amarus line USVL246-FR2. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 137/91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-024-04595-z
Ganaparthi V.R., Rennberger G, Wechter WP, Levi A, Branham SE. 2023. Genome-wide association mapping and genomic prediction of Fusarium wilt race 2 resistance in the USDA Citrullus amarus collection. Plant Disease. Accepted.
Ganaparthi, V. R., Adhikari, S., Marais, F., Neupane, B., & Bisek, B. (2023). The use of PI 277012-derived Fusarium head blight resistance QTL in winter wheat breeding. Heliyon, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15103
Francois Marais, Jason Fiedler, Hongbin Tao, Seyed Pirseyedi, Justin Hegstad, Venkata Ganaparthi, Yuan Liu, Bradley Bisek, and Xuehui Li (2020). Homoeology of Thinopyrum distichum Single Chromosome Additions in Triticale and Wheat. Crop science, 61, 1254-1267. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20357

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