Rate My Professor Jianming Yu

Yu's research integrates quantitative genetics, genomics, plant breeding, molecular genetics, and statistics to dissect complex traits and improve crops, focusing on maize and sorghum while collaborating on rice, wheat, oat, peanut, and soybean. Key contributions include identification of the Shattering1 gene and homologs in cereal domestication, sorghum Tannin1 and Tannin2 genes, and advancements in phenotypic plasticity, genome-wide association studies, and genomic selection. Influential publications feature Yu, X., et al. (2016). Genomic prediction contributing to a promising global strategy to turbocharge gene banks. Nature Plants 2:16150; Li, X., et al. (2018). Genomic and environmental determinants and their interplay underlying phenotypic plasticity. PNAS 115:6679-6684; and Yu, J., et al. (2006). A unified mixed-model method for association mapping that accounts for multiple levels of relatedness. Nature Genetics 38:203-208. His accolades include election as Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America in 2018, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018, Iowa State University Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award in 2017, Raymond and Mary Baker Agronomic Excellence Award in 2018, and Emerging Leaders in Applied Plant Sciences Award from the University of Minnesota in 2014. Yu teaches graduate courses in advanced plant breeding and leads initiatives enhancing genomic prediction and genetic resource utilization in agriculture.