Majid Foolad

Professor of Plant Genetics

Majid Foolad

Research Summary

Genetic characterization of resistance/tolerance to biotic/abiotic stresses, and genes/QTLs contributing to tomato fruit quality. Investigation of genes/QTLs for directed crop improvement and germplasm enhancement. Tomato cultivar development & release.

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Most Recent Publications

Identification of late blight resistance QTLs in an interspecific RIL population of tomato via genotyping-by-sequencing

Mengyuan Jia, Hudson Ashrafi, Majid R. Foolad, 2025, Molecular Breeding

Molecular and biochemical components associated with chilling tolerance in tomato: comparison of different developmental stages

Maria Dolores Camalle, Elena Levin, Sivan David, Adi Faigenboim, Majid R. Foolad, Amnon Lers, 2024, Molecular Horticulture

Unraveling the genetic basis of quantitative resistance to diseases in tomato: a meta-QTL analysis and mining of transcript profiles

Moein Khojasteh, Hadi Darzi Ramandi, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Ayat Taheri, Asma Rahmanzadeh, Gongyou Chen, Majid R. Foolad, Ebrahim Osdaghi, 2024, Plant Cell Reports

Identification and mapping of late blight resistance QTLs in the wild tomato accession PI 224710 (Solanum pimpinellifolium)

Sihui Gao, Majid R. Foolad, 2024, Molecular Breeding on p. 28

Identification and mapping of QTLs for late blight resistance in the wild tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium) accession PI 270442 via selective genotyping

Matthew T. Sullenberger, Majid R. Foolad, 2024, Frontiers in Plant Science on p. 15

Identification of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270441

Matthew T. Sullenberger, Mengyuan Jia, Sihui Gao, Hamid Ashrafi, Majid R. Foolad, 2022, Plant Genome

Physiological genetic variation in tomato fruit chilling tolerance during postharvest storage

Sivan David, Elena Levin, Elazar Fallik, Sharon Alkalai-Tuvia, Majid R. Foolad, Amnon Lers, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science

Genomics and Marker-Assisted Improvement of Vegetable Crops

Ivan Simko, Mengyuan Jia, Jelli Venkatesh, Byoung Cheorl Kang, Yiqun Weng, Gianni Barcaccia, Sergio Lanteri, Gehendra Bhattarai, Majid R. Foolad, 2021, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences on p. 303-365

Genetic analysis of late blight resistance in a new RIL population of tomato derived from LB-resistant Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270443

Mengyuan Jia, Majid R. Foolad, 2020, Plant Breeding on p. 651-659

Induced Plant Defenses Against Herbivory in Cultivated and Wild Tomato

Sulav Paudel, Po An Lin, Majid R. Foolad, Jared G. Ali, Edwin G. Rajotte, Gary W. Felton, 2019, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 693-707

Most-Cited Papers

The tomato pan-genome uncovers new genes and a rare allele regulating fruit flavor

Lei Gao, Itay Gonda, Honghe Sun, Qiyue Ma, Kan Bao, Denise M. Tieman, Elizabeth A. Burzynski-Chang, Tara L. Fish, Kaitlin A. Stromberg, Gavin L. Sacks, Theodore W. Thannhauser, Majid R. Foolad, Maria Jose Diez, Jose Blanca, Joaquin Canizares, Yimin Xu, Esther van der Knaap, Sanwen Huang, Harry J. Klee, James J. Giovannoni, Zhangjun Fei, 2019, Nature Genetics on p. 1044-1051

Sequencing-based bin map construction of a tomato mapping population, facilitating high-resolution quantitative trait loci detection

Itay Gonda, Hamid Ashrafi, David A. Lyon, Susan R. Strickler, Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp, Qiyue Ma, Honghe Sun, Kevin Stoffel, Adrian F. Powell, Stephanie Futrell, Theodore W. Thannhauser, Zhangjun Fei, Allen E. Van Deynze, Lukas A. Mueller, James J. Giovannoni, Majid R. Foolad, 2019, Plant Genome

Induced Plant Defenses Against Herbivory in Cultivated and Wild Tomato

Sulav Paudel, Po An Lin, Majid R. Foolad, Jared G. Ali, Edwin G. Rajotte, Gary W. Felton, 2019, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 693-707

Genomics and Marker-Assisted Improvement of Vegetable Crops

Ivan Simko, Mengyuan Jia, Jelli Venkatesh, Byoung Cheorl Kang, Yiqun Weng, Gianni Barcaccia, Sergio Lanteri, Gehendra Bhattarai, Majid R. Foolad, 2021, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences on p. 303-365

Detached-leaflet evaluation of tomato germplasm for late blight resistance and its correspondence to field and greenhouse screenings

Majid R. Foolad, Matthew T. Sullenberger, Hamid Ashrafi, 2015, Plant Disease on p. 718-722

HS-SPME-GC-MS analyses of volatiles in plant populations-quantitating compound × individual matrix effects

Elizabeth A. Burzynski-Chang, Imelda Ryona, Bruce I. Reisch, Itay Gonda, Majid R. Foolad, James J. Giovannoni, Gavin L. Sacks, 2018, Molecules

Identification and mapping of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in tomato accession PI 163245

Erik W. Ohlson, Hamid Ashrafi, Majid R. Foolad, 2018, Plant Genome

Genetic analysis of resistance to tomato late blight in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 163245

Erik W. Ohlson, Majid R. Foolad, 2016, Plant Breeding on p. 391-398

Identification of late blight resistance quantitative trait loci in Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 270441

Matthew T. Sullenberger, Mengyuan Jia, Sihui Gao, Hamid Ashrafi, Majid R. Foolad, 2022, Plant Genome

Heritability of late blight resistance in tomato conferred by Solanum pimpinellifolium accession PI 224710

Erik W. Ohlson, Majid R. Foolad, 2015, Plant Breeding on p. 461-467