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Last name :
COMADRAN TRABAL
First name :
Jordi
Entrance year :
2025
Occupation :
Oilseeds Applied Genetic Scientist team lead
Birthdate :
1978/01/23
Address :
1228, chemin de l’Hobit, 31790 SAINT-SAUVEUR / France
Main fields of interest :
- Seeds, genetics
- Agronomy
- Plant physiology
Professional experience : * Barley geneticist (James Hutton Institute)
* Genomic Resources and Marker development Platform lead (Limagrain)
* Applied Genetics Scientist lead (Syngenta)
Education : * BSc, Biology degree (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
* MSc, Plant Breeding (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza)
* PhD, Barley Association Genetics (Dundee University)
Selected publications : * Melonek J, Duarte J, Martin J, Murigneux A, Varenne P, Comadran J, Specel S, Levadoux S, Bernath-Levin K, Beuf L, Torney F, Pichon JP, Perez P, Small I. 2021. The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat, Nature Communications 2021 Feb 15;12(1):1036.
* Gilles L, Khaled A, Laffaire JB, Chaignon S, Gendrot G, Laplaige J, Bergès H, Beydon G, Bayle V, Barret P, Comadran J, Martinant JP, Rogowsky P, Widiez T. 2017. Loss of pollen‐specific phospholipase NOT LIKE DAD triggers gynogenesis in maize. The EMBO Journal 15;36(6):707-717.
* Houston K, McKim SM, Comadran J, Bonar N, Druka I, Uzrek N, Cirillo E, Guzy-Wrobelska J, Collins NC, Halpin C, Hansson M, Dockter C, Druka A, Waugh R. 2013. Variation in the interaction between alleles of HvAPETALA2 and microRNA172 determines the density of grains on the barley inflorescence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Oct 8;110(41):16675-80.
* Comadran J, Kilian B, Russell J, Ramsay L, Stein N, Ganal M, Shaw P, Bayer M, Thomas W, Marshall D, Hedley P, Tondelli A, Pecchioni N, Francia E, Korzun V, Walther A, Waugh R. 2012. Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley. Nat Genet. Dec; 44(12):1388-92.
* Ramsay L, Comadran J, Druka A, Marshall DF, Thomas WT, Macaulay M, MacKenzie K, Simpson C, Fuller J, Bonar N, Hayes PM, Lundqvist U, Franckowiak JD, Close TJ, Muehlbauer GJ, Waugh R. 2011. INTERMEDIUM-C, a modifier of lateral spikelet fertility in barley, is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1. Nat Genet. 43(2):169-72.
* Cockram J, White J, Zuluaga DL, Smith D, Comadran J, Macaulay M, Luo Z, Kearsey MJ, Werner P, Harrap D, Tapsell C, Liu H, Hedley PE, Stein N, Schulte D, Steuernagel B, Marshall DF, Thomas WT, Ramsay L, Mackay I, Balding DJ; AGOUEB Consortium, Waugh R, O'Sullivan DM. 2010. Genome-wide association mapping to candidate polymorphism resolution in the unsequenced barley genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(50):21611-6








