Email: [email protected]
Joined the lab in: 2014
Education history
BS University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966
MS University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970
Research interests
My research is primarily on barley genetic resources and their utilization. These genetic stocks are used also to produce new two-rowed spring barley breeding lines adapted to the Upper Midwest of the USA. To achieve these goals, crosses are made, segregation patterns are studied, and phenotypic traits and molecular markers are scored. Traits of interest include yield stability, early heading, lodging resistance (semidwarf genes), tolerance to heat stress (stay-green), disease resistances, and better malt quality.
Descriptions of some barley genes have been published in the Barley Genetics Newsletter and barley genetic stocks have been placed in the National Small Grains Collection (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility at Aberdeen, Idaho) and in the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp, Sweden.
I have been involved in the release varieties, which are/were popular in specific production areas: Ife Brown cowpea (1973, western Nigeria), Bowman spring two-rowed barley (1984, western North Dakota), Conlon spring two-rowed malting barley (1986, North Dakota), Pinnacle spring two-rowed malting barley (2006, Upper Midwest), Shepherd spring two-rowed barley (2010, Queensland, Australia), and ND Genesis spring two-rowed malting barley (2015, Upper Midwest).
Fun Fact
My wife, Bernie, and I have lived and worked on six of seven continents. The seventh is yet far too cold to be considered as a future residence.
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Selected publications
Abu Qamar, M., Z.H. Liu, J.D. Faris, S. Chao, M.C. Edwards, Z. Lai, J.D. Franckowiak, and T.L. Friesen. 2008. A region of barley chromosome 6H harbors multiple major genes associated with net type net blotch resistance. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 117:1261–1270.
Druka, A., J. Franckowiak, U. Lundqvist, N. Bonar, J. Alexander, K. Houston, S. Radovic, F. Shahinnia, V. Vendramin, M. Morgante, N. Stein, and R. Waugh. 2011. Genetic dissection of barley morphology and development. Plant Physiology 155:617–627.
Forster, B.P., J.D. Franckowiak, U. Lundqvist, J. Lyon, I. Pitkethly, and W.T.B. Thomas. 2007. The barley phytomer. Annals of Botany 100:725–733.
Franckowiak, J.D., and U. Lundqvist. 2018. Descriptions of barley genetic stocks for 2017. Barley Genetics Newsletter 47:1–187.
Franckowiak, J.D., and U. Lundqvist. 2019. Descriptions of barley genetic stocks for 2018. Barley Genetics Newsletter 48:9–189.
Hickey, L., W. Lawson, G. Platz, M. Dieters, V. Arief, S. Germán, S. Fletcher, R. Park, D. Singh, S. Pereyra, and J. Franckowiak. 2011. Mapping Rph20: A gene conferring adult plant resistance to Puccinia hordei in barley. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 123:55–68.
Martin, M.J., O. Chicaiza, J.C. Caffarel, A.H. Sallam, A. Druka, R. Waugh, F. Ordon, D. Kopahnke, J. Keilwagen, D. Perovic, T. G. Fetch Jr., Y. Jin, J.D. Franckowiak, and B.J. Steffenson. 2020. Development of barley introgression lines carrying the leaf rust resistance genes Rph1 to Rph15. Crop Science 60:282–302.
Thomas, W.T.B., H. Bull, A. Booth, R. Hamilton, B.P. Forster, and J.D. Franckowiak. 2019. A practical guide to barley crossing (Chapter 3) pp. 21–36, In: W.A. Harwood (ed.), Barley: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1900, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8944-7_3, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019.