Publications

Structural and coding variation in PHYTOCHROMES A and C underlies differences in flowering time and shade avoidance in wheat (2026)

Sai Thejas Babbana, Yogev Burko, Bjorn Christopher Willige, Gizaw Wolde, Thorsten Schnurbusch, Guy Golan

bioRxiv

Homoeo-alleles of wheat GNI2 fuel grain yields across input environments (2026)

Shun Sakuma, Matteo Bozzoli3, Guy Golan, Manar Makhoul, Cristian Forestan, Kenan Tan, Ahmed Raza Khan, Francesco De Sario, Sara Giulia Milner, Giuseppe Sciara, Chuny Liu, Elisabetta Frascaroli, Fumitaka Abe, Goetz Hensel, Jia-Wu Feng, Martin Mascher, Karim Ammar, Susanne Dreisigacker, Mikiko Kojima, Masanori Okamoto, Roberto Tuberosa, Silvio Salvi, Rod Snowdon, Marco Maccaferri, Thorsten Schnurbusch

bioRxiv

Scaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat stands (2026)

Guy Golan, François Vasseur, Yongyu Huang, Kenan Tan, Victor O Sadras, Cyrille Violle, Thorsten Schnurbusch

New Phytologist

Agroecological genetics of biomass allocation in wheat uncovers genotype interactions with canopy shade and plant size (2024)

Guy Golan, Jacob Weiner, Yusheng Zhao, Thorsten Schnurbusch

New Phytologist

Dynamic phytomeric growth contributes to local adaptation in barley (2024)

Yongyu Huang, Andreas Maurer, Ricardo FH Giehl, Shuangshuang Zhao, Guy Golan, Venkatasubbu Thirulogachandar, Guoliang Li, Yusheng Zhao, Corinna Trautewig, Axel Himmelbach, Andreas Börner, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Nils Stein, Martin Mascher, Klaus Pillen, Thorsten Schnurbusch

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Grain yield trade-offs in spike-branching wheat can be mitigated by elite alleles affecting sink capacity and post-anthesis source activity (2024)

Ragavendran Abbai, Guy Golan, C Friedrich H Longin, Thorsten Schnurbusch

Journal of Experimental Botany

Exploring the trade‐off between individual fitness and community performance of wheat crops using simulated canopy shade (2023)

Guy Golan, Ragavendran Abbai, Thorsten Schnurbusch

Plant, Cell & Environment

Genetic screening for mutants with altered seminal root numbers in hexaploid wheat using a high-throughput root phenotyping platform (2019)

Oluwaseyi Shorinola, Ryan Kaye, Guy Golan, Zvi Peleg, Stefan Kepinski, Cristobal Uauy

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

GNI-A1 mediates trade-off between grain number and grain weight in tetraploid wheat (2019)

Guy Golan, Idan Ayalon, Aviad Perry, Gil Zimran, Toluwanimi Ade-Ajayi, Assaf Mosquna, Assaf Distelfeld, Zvi Peleg

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Unleashing floret fertility in wheat through the mutation of a homeobox gene (2019)

Shun Sakuma, Guy Golan, Zifeng Guo, Taiichi Ogawa, Akemi Tagiri, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Nadine Bernhardt, Jonathan Brassac, Martin Mascher, Goetz Hensel, Shizen Ohnishi, Hironobu Jinno, Yoko Yamashita, Idan Ayalon, Zvi Peleg, Thorsten Schnurbusch, Takao Komatsuda

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Activation of seminal root primordia during wheat domestication reveals underlying mechanisms of plant resilience (2018)

Guy Golan, Elisha Hendel, Gabriel E Méndez Espitia, Nimrod Schwartz, Zvi Peleg

Plant, Cell & Environment

Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication (2017)

Raz Avni, Moran Nave, Omer Barad, Kobi Baruch, Sven O Twardziok, Heidrun Gundlach, Iago Hale, Martin Mascher, Manuel Spannagl, Krystalee Wiebe, Katherine W Jordan, Guy Golan, Jasline Deek, Batsheva Ben-Zvi, Gil Ben-Zvi, Axel Himmelbach, Ron P MacLachlan, Andrew G Sharpe, Allan Fritz, Roi Ben-David, Hikmet Budak, Tzion Fahima, Abraham Korol, Justin D Faris, Alvaro Hernandez, Mark A Mikel, Avraham A Levy, Brian Steffenson, Marco Maccaferri, Roberto Tuberosa, Luigi Cattivelli, Primetta Faccioli, Aldo Ceriotti, Khalil Kashkush, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Takao Komatsuda, Tamar Eilam, Hanan Sela, Amir Sharon, Nir Ohad, Daniel A Chamovitz, Klaus FX Mayer, Nils Stein, Gil Ronen, Zvi Peleg, Curtis J Pozniak, Eduard D Akhunov, Assaf Distelfeld

Science

Genetic evidence for differential selection of grain and embryo weight during wheat evolution under domestication (2015)

Guy Golan, Adi Oksenberg, Zvi Peleg

Journal of Experimental Botany

Effect of GA-sensitivity on wheat early vigor and yield components under deep sowing (2015)

Avishay Amram, Aviya Fadida-Myers, Guy Golan, Kamal Nashef, Roi Ben-David, Zvi Peleg

Frontiers in Plant Science

Don’t kill the messenger: long-distance trafficking of mRNA molecules (2013)

Ziv Spiegelman, Guy Golan, Shmuel Wolf

Plant Science

Phloem-specific expression of a melon Aux/IAA in tomato plants alters auxin sensitivity and plant development (2013)

Guy Golan, Rotem Betzer, Shmuel Wolf

Frontiers in Plant Science