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Education

• B.S.- University of Alaska Fairbanks - 1995 (Biology)
• M.S.- Southern Connecticut State University - 1997 (Biology)
• Ph.D.- Kansas State University - 2002 (Plant Pathology)

Research Emphasis

Primary research areas include mapping the genes for the sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) phytotoxin sensitivity in rice; identifying sources of resistance for false and kernel smuts of rice; identifying cultural management practices that mitigate smut disease incidence; and identifying mutant reversion alleles for pericarp color in rice.

Publications

• Brooks, S.A.  High-resolution mapping of a gene conferring necrotic sensitivity to a Rhizoctonia solani phytotoxin in rice.  In preparation for Phytopathology.
• Brooks, S.A. and M. Anders.  Genotype x Management interactions influencing susceptibility to rice grain smuts.  In preparation for Plant Disease.
• Brooks, S.A., Yan, W., Jackson, A.K., and Deren, C.W.  A natural mutation in rc reverts white-rice-pericarp to red and results in a new, dominant, wild-type allele: Rc-g.  Theor. Appl. Genet.  Accepted.  2008.
• Brooks, S. A.  Sensitivity to a phytotoxin from Rhizoctonia solani correlates with sheath blight susceptibility in rice.  Phytopathology 97:1207-1212.  2007.
• See, D. R., Brooks, S. A., Nelson, J. C., Brown-Guedira, G., Friebe, B. and Gill, B. S.  Gene evolution at the ends of wheat chromosomes.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:4162-4167.  2006.
• Brooks, S. A., See, D. R. and Brown-Guedira, G.  SNP-based improvement of a microsatellite marker associated with karnal bunt resistance in wheat.  Crop Sci. 46:1467-1470.  2006.
• Brooks, S. A., Huang, L., Herbel, M. N., Gill, B. S., Brown-Guedira, G. and Fellers, J. P.  Structural variation and evolution of a defense-gene cluster in natural populations of Aegilops tauschii.  Theor. Appl. Genet. 112:618-626.  2006.
• Huang, L., Brooks, S. A., Li, W., Fellers, J. P., Trick, H. N. and Gill, B. S.  Map-based cloning of leaf rust resistance gene Lr21 from the large and polyploid genome of bread wheat.  Genetics 164:655-664.  2003.
• Faris, J. D., Fellers, J. P., Brooks, S. A. and Gill, B. S.  A bacterial artificial chromosome contig spanning the major domestication locus Q in wheat and identification of a candidate gene.  Genetics 164:311-321.  2003.
• Brooks, S. A., Huang, L., Gill, B. S. and Fellers, J. P.  Analysis of 106 kb of contiguous DNA sequence from the D genome of wheat reveals high gene density and a complex arrangement of genes related to disease resistance.  Genome 45:963-972.  2002.