Hudson Ashrafi
Education
PhD Genetics Pennsylvania State University, PA
MS Plant Breeding Azad University, Tehran, Iran
BS Agronomy and Plant Breeding University of Technology, Esfahan, Iran
Area(s) of Expertise
Dr. Ashrafi is interested in conventional plant breeding, molecular breeding through marker assisted selection, genetic mapping, QTL analysis, bioinformatics and statistical genomics. As an assistant professor in blueberry breeding, he is passionate to use his expertise to breed for higher quality blueberries.
Publications
- A Blueberry ( Vaccinium L.) Crop Ontology to Enable Standardized Phenotyping for Blueberry Breeding and Research , HORTSCIENCE (2024)
- Application of RAPD and ISSR markers tools for commercial monovarietal Tunisian extra virgin olive oils (EVOO) authenticity and traceability , EURO-MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRATION (2024)
- Genetic Control of Prickles in Tetraploid Blackberry , (2024)
- Open-Source High-Throughput Phenotyping for Blueberry Yield and Maturity Prediction Across Environments: Neural Network Model and Labeled Dataset for Breeders , Horticulturae (2024)
- Genome-wide association identifies key loci controlling blackberry postharvest quality , FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2023)
- A chromosome-length genome assembly and annotation of blackberry (Rubus argutus, cv. “Hillquist”) , G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics (2022)
- A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus) , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY (2022)
- Autopolyploid inheritance and a heterozygous reciprocal translocation shape chromosome genetic behavior in tetraploid blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) , NEW PHYTOLOGIST (2022)
- Identification of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270441 , PLANT GENOME (2022)
- Nuclear DNA contents and ploidy levels of North American Vaccinium species and interspecific hybrids , SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE (2022)