Hamid Ashrafi
Assistant Professor
Academics, Faculty, Research
Kilgore Hall 234
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
- Genome sequence of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi sheds light on mummy berry disease infection of blueberry and mating type, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics (2021)
- A Rosaceae Family-Level Approach To Identify Loci Influencing Soluble Solids Content in Blackberry for DNA-Informed Breeding, G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS (2020)
- Biomass yields, cytogenetics, fertility, and compositional analyses of novel bioenergy grass hybrids (Tripidium spp.), GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY (2020)
- Simulated storage causes carbohydrate loss and rooting differences in two poinsettia cultivars, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE (2020)
- 3D point cloud data to quantitatively characterize size and shape of shrub crops, HORTICULTURE RESEARCH (2019)
- Sequencing-Based Bin Map Construction of a Tomato Mapping Population, Facilitating High-Resolution Quantitative Trait Loci Detection, PLANT GENOME (2019)
- Breeding Trait Priorities of the Blueberry Industry in the United States and Canada, HortScience (2018)
- Developing the Genomic Resources for a Tetraploid Blueberry cv "O'Neal" (2018)
- Differential Gene Expression during Blueberry Fruits Ripening (2018)
- Differential Gene Expression during Flower and Fruit Development of the Blueberry Cv. "O'Neal" (2018)
Publications
Education
PhD, Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, PA
MS, Plant Breeding, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
BS, Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Technology, Esfahan, Iran