Brian W. Diers
PROFESSOR
Crop sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
He is a Professor of Plant Breeding in Department of Crop Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before this he was an Associate Professor of Plant Breeding in Department of Crop Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received his Ph.D and M.S. degree in Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics from Iowa State University, respectively, B.S. in Agronomy from University of Minnesota.
Research Interest
Soybean yield Resistance to soybean cyst nematodes Resistance to soybean aphids
Publications
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Diers, B.W., S.R. Cianzio and R.C. Shoemaker. 1992. Possible identification of quantitative trait loci affecting iron efficiency in soybean. J. of Plant Nutrition 15:2127-2136.
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Diers, B.W., P. Keim and R.C. Shoemaker. 1992. RFLP analysis of soybean seed protein and oil content. Theor. Appl. Genet. 83:608-612.
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Diers, B.W., L. Mansur, J. Imsande and R.C. Shoemaker. 1992. Mapping of phytophthora resistance loci in soybean with restriction fragment length polymorphism markers. Crop Sci. 32:377-383.
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Diers, B.W., B.K. Voss and W.R. Fehr. 1991. Evaluation of field tests of Fe efficiency of soybean by moving-mean analysis. Crop Sci. 31:54-56.
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Keim, P., B.W. Diers and R.C. Shoemaker. 1990. Genetic analysis of soybean hard seededness with molecular markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 79:465-469.
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Keim, P., B.W. Diers, T.C. Olson and R.C. Shoemaker. 1990. RFLP mapping in soybean: Association between marker loci and variation in quantitative traits. Genetics 126:735-742.
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Diers, B.W. and W.R. Fehr. 1989. Selection for iron efficiency of soybean in nutrient-solution and field tests. Crop Sci. 29:86-90.
