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NAME	Curt L. Brubaker Senior Research Scientist Subprogram Leader: Biodiversity and Evolution of the Australian Flora B.Sc. magna cum laude (1985) Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA; M.Sc. (1989) Iowa State University, USA; Ph.D. (1994) Iowa State University, USA
CONTACT	Phone (+61) 02 6246-5085 Fax: (+61) 02 6246-5000 E-mail: Curt.Brubaker@csiro.au Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research CSIRO Plant Industry GPO Box 1600 Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
RESEARCH INTERESTS	Plant systematics and genome evolution (with emphasis on crop plant evolution, and comparative genome mapping) Evolution of Fusarium wilt of cotton Based on the perspective that plant species are ephemeral coalitions of genetic elements, my research focuses on characterizing how these genetic coalitions change over time and identifying the evolutionary processes that condition these changes. Comparative mapping of the Gossypium genome is the core component of the research program. Having previously generated first generation maps for the cotton A and D genomes, we are currently mapping the Australian C, G, and K genomes. More recently my research group has focused on the evolution of Fusarium wilt of cotton in Australia. Fusarium wilt was first diagnosed in Australian cotton fields in 1993, and has subsequently spread to all major cotton districts in Australia. One project focuses on the genetic diversity of the indigenous Fusarium oxysporum and their relationship to the cotton field pathogens. The other project focuses on using experimental genetic families to elucidate the genetics of Fusarium wilt resistance in cotton in the hope that we will be able to identify the fundamental genes involved in the Fusarium wilt resistance response.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS	McFadden, H. D. Beasley, and C.L. Brubaker. In press. Gossypium sturtianum is a potential source of Fusarium wilt resistance in cotton breeding. Euphytica. Pfeil, B.E., C.L. Brubaker, L.A. Craven, and M.D. Crisp. 2004. Paralogy and orthology in the rbp2 gene family in Malvaceae: Investigation of gene duplication in Hibiscus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 1438-1437. Rong, J., C. Abbey, J. E. Bowers, C. L. Brubaker, C. Chang, P. W. Chee, T. A. Delmonte, X. Ding, J. J. Garza, B. S. M., C.-h. Park, G. J. Pierce, K. M. Rainey, V. K. Rastogi, S. R. Schulze, N. L. Trolinder, J. F. Wendel, T. A. Wilkins, T. D. Williams-Coplin, R. A. Wing, R. J. Wright, X. Zhao, L. Zhu and A. H. Paterson. 2004. A 3347-locus genetic recombination map of sequence-tagged sites reveals features of genome organization, transmission and evolution of cotton (Gossypium). Genetics 166: 389-417. Wang, B., C.L. Brubaker, and J.J. Burdon. 2004. Fusarium species and Fusarium wilt pathogens associated with native Gossypium populations in Australia. Mycological Research 108:35-44. Brubaker, C.L. and A.H.D. Brown. 2003. The use of multiple alien chromosome addition aneuploids facilitates genetic linkage mapping of the Gossypium G genome. Genome 46: 774-791. Rau, D., A. H. D. Brown, C. L. Brubaker, G. Attene, V. Balmas, E. Saba, and R. Papa. Population genetic structure of Pyrenophora teres Drechs. 2003. The causal agent of net blotch in Sardinian landraces of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106:947-959. Pfeil, B. E., C. L. Brubaker, L. A. Craven, and M. D. Crisp. 2002. Phylogeny and Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl16 intron. Systematic Botany 27: 333-350. Bock, C. H., P. H. Thrall, C. L. Brubaker, and J.J. Burdon. 2002. Detection of genetic variation in Alternaria brassicicola using AFLP fingerprinting. Mycological Research 106: 428-434. Brubaker, C. L. and J. F. Wendel. 2001. RFLP diversity in cotton. In J. J. Jenkins and S. Saha [eds] Emerging Technologies in Cotton Breeding, pp. 81-102. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA. Liu, B., C. L. Brubaker, G. Mergeai, R. C. Cronn, and J. F. Wendel. 2001. Polyploid formation in cotton is not accompanied by rapid genomic changes. Genome 44:321-330. Liu, Q., C. L. Brubaker, A. G. Green, D. R. Marshall, P. Sharp, and S. P. Singh. 2001. Evolution of the FAD2-1 fatty acid desaturase 5’ intron and the molecular systematics of Gossypium (Malvaceae). American Journal of Botany 88:92-102. Brubaker, C. L., F. M. Bourland and J. F. Wendel. 1999. The Origin and Domestication of Cotton. In C. W. Smith and J. T. Cothren [eds]. Cotton: Origin, History, Technology, and Production pp. 3-31. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY. Brubaker, C. L., A. H. D. Brown, J. McD. Stewart, M. J. Kilby, and J. P. Grace. 1999. Production of fertile hybrid germplasm with diploid Australian Gossypium species for cotton improvement. Euphytica 108:99-213. Seelanan, T., C. L. Brubaker, J. McD. Stewart, L. A. Craven and J. F. Wendel. 1999. Molecular systematics of Australian Gossypium section Grandicalyx (Malvaceae). Systematic Botany 24:183-208 Liu, Q, S. P. Singh, C. L. Brubaker, P. J. Sharp, A. G. Green, and D.R. Marshall. 1999. Molecular cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding a microsomal w-6 fatty acid desaturase from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 26:101-106 Brubaker, C. L., A. H. Paterson and J. F. Wendel. 1999. Comparative mapping of allotetraploid cotton and its diploid progenitors. Genome 42:184-203. Brubaker, C. L., C. G. Benson, C. Miller and D. N. Leach. 1996. Occurrence of terpenoid aldehydes and lysigenous cavities in the ‘glandless’ seeds of Australian Gossypium species. Australian Journal of Botany 44:601-612. Brubaker, C. L. and J. F. Wendel. 1994. Reevaluating the origin of domesticated cotton (Gossypium hirsutum; Malvaceae) using nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). American Journal of Botany 81:1309-1326. Reinisch, A., J. Dong, C. L. Brubaker, D. Stelly, J. F. Wendel and A. H. Paterson. 1994. A detailed RFLP map of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum x G. barbadense: Chromosome organization in a disomic polyploid genome. Genetics 138:829-847. Brubaker, C. L., J. A. Koontz and J. F. Wendel. 1993. Bidirectional cytoplasmic and nuclear introgression in the New World cottons, Gossypium barbadense and G. hirsutum. American Journal of Botany 80:1203-1208. Wendel, J. F., C. L. Brubaker and A. E. Percival. 1992. Genetic diversity in Gossypium hirsutum and the origin of Upland cotton. American Journal of Botany 79:1291-1310.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS	Genetic diversity and evolution of the cotton wilt pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. vasinfectum Cotton genetics and comparative genome evolution
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