Ravi Mural
Research Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Plant Breeding and Genetics
B.S. in Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India, 2007.
M.S. in Genetics and Plant Breeding, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 2009.
M.S. in Applied Biosciences, Department of Biology in Applied Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2014.
Ph.D. in Agronomy and Horticulture, Specialization in Plant Breeding and Genetics, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019.
Main Area of Focus
Quantitative Genetics, Genomics, and Plant Breedings
Research Interests
My research interests focus on the betterment, development, and sustainable production of crop plants for their commercial utility by utilizing genomics, quantitative genetics, and breeding approaches. Currently, I am working on sorghum and maize quantitative genetics, genomics, and genotype by environment interactions. In the future, I would like to extend my research and breeding efforts to the commercial utility of various millet crops.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravi_mural
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-mural/
Publications
Google Scholar publication list
Sun, G., Yu, H., Wang, P., Lopez-Guerrero, M., Mural, R.V., Mizero, O.N., Grzybowski, M., Song, B., van Dijk, K., Schachtman, D.P. and Zhang, C., 2023. A role for heritable transcriptomic variation in maize adaptation to temperate environments. Genome Biology, 24(1), pp.1-27.
Grzybowski, M.W., Mural, R.V., Xu, G., Turkus, J., Yang, J. and Schnable, J.C., 2023. A common resequencing‐based genetic marker data set for global maize diversity. The Plant Journal, 113(6), pp.1109-1121.
Mural, R.V., Sun, G., Grzybowski, M., Tross, M.C., Jin, H., Smith, C., Newton, L., Andorf, C.M., Woodhouse, M.R., Thompson, A.M. and Sigmon, B., 2022. Association mapping across a multitude of traits collected in diverse environments in maize. GigaScience, 11.
Sun, G., Mural, R.V., Turkus, J.D. and Schnable, J.C., 2022. Quantitative resistance loci to southern rust mapped in a temperate maize diversity panel. Phytopathology®, 112(3), pp.579-587.
Mural, R.V., Grzybowski, M., Miao, C., Damke, A., Sapkota, S., Boyles, R.E., Salas Fernandez, M.G., Schnable, P.S., Sigmon, B., Kresovich, S. and Schnable, J.C., 2021. Meta-analysis identifies pleiotropic loci controlling phenotypic trade-offs in sorghum. Genetics, 218(3), p.iyab087.