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Department of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
E-mail: kolsen@wustl.edu
https://biology.wustl.edu/people/kenneth-olsen
Area of expertise: crop domestication genomics, evolution of crop wild relatives, ecological genomics, molecular adaptation
Selected Publications:
Li, L. F., Pusadee, T., Wedger, M. J., Li, Y. L., Li, M. R., Lau, Y. L., Yap, S. J., Jamjod, S., Rerkasem, B., Hao, Y., Song, B. K., and Olsen, K. M. (2024). Porous borders at the crop-wild interface promote weed adaptation in Southeast Asia. Nat. Commun. 15: 1182.
Wedger, M. J., Roma-Burgos, N., and Olsen, K. M. (2022). Genomic revolution of US weedy rice in response to 21st century agricultural technologies. Commun. Biol. 5: 885.
Zheng, X., Pang, H., Wang, J., Yao, X., Song, Y., Li, F., Lou, D., Ge, J., Zhao, Z., Qiao, W., Kim, S. R., Ye, G., Olsen, K. M., Liu, C., and Yang, Q. (2022). Genomic signatures of domestication and adaptation during geographical expansions of rice cultivation. Plant Biotechnol. J. 20: 16–18.
Olsen, K. M., Goad, D. M., Wright, S. J., Dutta, M. L., Myers, S. R., Small, L. L., and Li, L. F. (2021). Dual-species origin of an adaptive chemical defense polymorphism. New Phytol. 232: 1477–1487.
Imaizumi, T., Ebana, K., Kawahara, Y., Muto, C., Kobayashi, H., Koarai, A., and Olsen, K. M. (2021). Genomic divergence during feralization reveals conserved and novel mechanisms of parallel weediness evolution. Commun. Biol. 4: 952.
Wei, X., Qiu, J., Yong, K., Fan, J., Zhang, Q., Hua, H., Liu, J., Wang, Q., Olsen, K. M., Han, B., and Huang, X. (2021). A quantitative genomics map guides rice breeding. Nat. Genet. 53: 243–253.
Qiu, J., Jia, L., Wu, D., Weng, X., Chen, L., Sun, J., Chen, M., Mao, L., Jiang, B., Ye, C., Turra, G. M., Guo, L., Ye, G., Zhu, Q. H., Imaizumi, T., Song, B. K., Scarabel, L., Merotto, A., Jr, Olsen, K. M., and Fan, L. (2020). Diverse genetic mechanisms underlie worldwide convergent rice feralization. Genome Biol. 21: 70.
Ye, C. Y., Tang, W., Wu, D., Jia, L., Qiu, J., Chen, M., Mao, L., Lin, F., Xu, H., Yu, X., Lu, Y., Wang, Y., Olsen, K. M., Timko, M. P., and Fan, L. (2019). Genomic evidence of human selection on Vavilovian mimicry. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3: 1474–1482.
Zheng, X. M., Chen, J., Pang, H. B., Liu, S., Gao, Q., Wang, J. R., Qiao, W. H., Wang, H., Liu, J., Olsen, K. M., and Yang, Q. W. (2019). Genome-wide analyses reveal the role of non-coding variation in complex traits during rice domestication. Sci. Adv. 5: aax3619.
Wedger, M. J., Topp, C. N., and Olsen, K. M. (2019). Convergent evolution of root system architecture in two independently evolved lineages of weedy rice. New Phytol. 223: 1031–1042.
Olsen, K. M., and Small, L. L. (2018). Micro- and macroevolutionary adaptation through repeated loss of a complete metabolic pathway. New Phytol. 219: 757–766.
Li, L. F., Li, Y. L., Jia, Y., Caicedo, A. L., and Olsen, K. M. (2017). Signatures of adaptation in the weedy rice genome. Nat. Genet. 49: 811–814.
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