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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:
Wedger, M.J., E. Xiao, T.R. Butts, J.L. Chlapecka, L.C. Webster. and K.M. Olsen* (2024). Recent crop-to-weed adaptive introgression has reshaped the genomic composition and geographical structure of US weedy rice (Oryza spp.). Molecular Ecology Dec 2:e17604. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17604
Zhu, M., K. Yong, J. Cong, K. Xu, X. Zhou, K. Liu, X. Wang, L. Fan, K.M. Olsen, X. Huang, X. Zhou, and J. Qiu (2024). Landrace introgression contributed to the recent feralization of weedy rice in East China. Plant Communications 5: 101066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2024.101066
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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