Grass Breeding Lab Publications

Biermacher, J., Reuter, R. R., Cook, B. J., Islam, M. A., Hopkins, A., Bouton, J. H., & Butler, T. J. (2009). Economic feasibility of stocker cattle grazing tall fescue infected with a novel endophyte in the Southern Great Plains. Journal of Animal Science, 87 (E-Suppl. 2), 573.

Saha, M. C., Young, C. A., & Hopkins, A. A. (2009). Genetic variation within and among wildrye (Elymus canadensis and E. virginicus) populations from the Southern Great Plains. Crop Science, 49 (3), 913-922 DOI:10.2135/cropsci2008.04.0239.

Wang, Z - Y., Ge, Y. X., & Hopkins, A. A. (2009). Registration of NFLT12, a tissue culture–responsive Lolium temulentum (Darnel ryegrass) line. Journal of Plant Registrations, 3 (2), 206-207.

Oram, R. N., Ferreira, C. V., Culvenor, R. A. , Hopkins, A. A., & Stewart, A. (2009). The first century of Phalaris aquatica L. cultivation and genetic improvement: a review. Crop and Pasture Science, 60 (1), 1-15.

Johnson, R. C., Hopkins, A. A., & Evans, M. A. (2008). Carbon isotope discrimination, selection response, and forage production of tall fescue in contrasting environments. Crop Science, 48, 1048-1054.

Santillano-Cázares, J., Hopkins, A. A., Goad, C. L., Redfearn, D. D., & Caddel, J. L. (2008). Winter grazing can be beneficial to tall fescue seed production in Oklahoma. Forage and Grazinglands, , DOI:10.1094/FG-2008-1007-01-R.

Hopkins, A. A., & Rowland, T. L. (2008). Rapid flowering under greenhouse conditions and lack of awns are widespread among tetraploid Elymus species. Crop Science, 48 (4), 1482-1486.

Ge, Y. X., Cheng, X., Hopkins, A., & Wang, Z - Y. (2007). Generation of transgenic Lolium temulentum plants by Agrobacterium tumefaciens – mediated transformation. Plant Cell Reports, 26, 783-789.

Zhou, L., Hopkins, A. A., Huhman, D. V., & Sumner, L. W. (2006). Efficient and sensitive method for quantitative analysis of alkaloids in hardinggrass (Phalaris aquatica L.). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 54 (25), 9287-9291.

Vogel, K. P., Hopkins, A. A., Moore, K. J., Johnson, K. D., & Carlson, I. T. (2006). Genetic variation among Canada wildrye accessions from Midwest USA remnant prairies for biomas yield and other traits. Crop Science, 46, 2348-2353.

Hopkins, A. A., & Alison, M. W. (2006). Stand persistance and animal performance for tall fescue endophyte combinations in South Central USA. Agronomy Journal, 98 (Forages), 1221-1226 DOI:10.2134/agronj2006.0007.

Read, J., Reinert, J., Evers, G. W., Ocumpaugh, W. R., Sanderson, M. A., & Hopkins, A. A. (2005). Registration of ‘Tejas 1’ Texas bluegrass. Crop Science, 45 (Sept-Oct 2005), 2124-2125.

Saha, M. C., Mian, R. M. , Zwonitzer, J. C., Chekhovskiy, K., & Hopkins, A. A. (2005). An SSR- and AFLP-based genetic linkage map of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 110, 323-336.

Mian, R. M. , Zwonitzer, J. C., Hopkins, A. A., Ding, X-S., & Nelson, R. S. (2005). Response of tall fescue genotypes to a new strain of Brome mosaic virus. Plant Disease, 89 (3), 224-227 DOI:10.1094/PD-89-0224/.

Hopkins, A. A. (2005). Grazing tolerance of cool-season grasses planted as seeded sward plots and spaced plants. Crop Science, 45, 1559-1564.

Mian, R. M. , Zwonitzer, J. C., Chen, Y., Saha, M. C., & Hopkins, A. A. (2005). AFLP diversity within and among Hardinggrass populations. Crop Science, 45, 2591-2597.

Mian, R. M. , Saha, M. C., Hopkins, A. A., & Wang, Z - Y. (2005). Use of tall fescue EST-SSR markers in phylogenetic analysis of cool-season forage grasses. Genome, 48, 637-647.

Wang, Z - Y., Lawrence, R. M., Hopkins, A. A., Bell, J., & Scott, M. (2004). Pollen-mediated transgene flow in the wind-pollinated grass species tall fescue (festuca arundinacea Schreb.). Molecular Breeding, 14, 47-60.

Hopkins, A. A., Malinowski, D. P., Zhang, J - H., & Walker, D. W. (2004). Russian wildrye seedlings are sensitive to acidic soil. Crop Science, 44, 2187-2192.

Malinowski, D. P., Hopkins, A. A., Pinchak, W. E., Sij, J.W., & Ansley, R. J. (2003). Productivity and survival of defoliated wheatgrasses in the rolling plains of Texas. Agronomy Journal, 95 (May-June), 614-626.

Hopkins, A. A., Krenzer, E. G., Horn, G. W., Goad, C. L., Redmon, L. A., Redfearn, D. D., & Reuter, R. R. (2003). Seed production: Spring grazing reduces seed yield of cool-season perennial grasses grown in the southern great plains. Agronomy Journal, 95 (July-Aug), 855-862.

Wang, Z - Y., Bell, J., Hopkins, A. A., Lehman, D., & Scott, M. (2003). Field performance of transgenic tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) Plants & Their Progenies. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 107 (3), 406-412.

Chen, L., Auh, C - K., Dowling, P., Bell, J., Chen, F., Hopkins, A. A., Dixon, R. A., & Wang, Z - Y. (2003). Improved forage digestibility of tall fescue (festuca arundinacea) by transgenic down-regulation of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 1, 437-449.

Vogel, K. P., Hopkins, A. A., Moore, K. J., Johnson, K. D., & Carlson, I. T. (2002). Winter survival in switchgrass populations bred for high IVDMD. Crop Science, 42, 1857-1862.

Wang, Z - Y., Lehman, D., Bell, J., & Hopkins, A. A. (2002). Development of an efficient plant regeneration system for russian wildrye (Psathyrostachys juncea). Plant Cell Reports, 20, 797-801.

Mian, R. M. , Hopkins, A. A., & Zwonitzer, J. C. (2002). Determination of genetic diversity in tall fescue with AFLP markers. Crop Science, 42 (3), 944-950.

Hopkins, A. A., & Walker, D. W. (2002). Registration of Nf-1, and Nf-1 profuse lLigule, compass plant germplasm. Crop Science, 42 (6), 2219-2220.

Wang, Z - Y., & Hopkins, A. A. (2002). Plant regeneration from embryogenic cell suspension cultures of lolium temulentum. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology, 38 (Sept-Oct), 446-450.

Vinton, M. A., Kathol, E. S., Vogel, K. P., & Hopkins, A. A. (2001). Endophytic fungi in Canada wild rye in natural grasslands. Journal of Range Management, 54, 390-395.

Wang, Z - Y., Hopkins, A. A., & Mian, R. M. (2001). Forage and turf grass biotechnology. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 20 (6), 573-619.