overview
My research focuses on nutritional, food product, and a/biotic stress plant breeding in wheat, sorghum, cowpea, cassava and high biomass energy crop using high throughput remote sensing, biochemical, physiological, and genetic based methods.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Plant Physiology, University of Calgary - (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 1997
selected publications
Academic Articles55
- Agbona, A., Montesinos-Lopez, O. A., Everett, M. E., Ruiz-Guzman, H., & Hays, D. B. (2023). Yield Adjustment Using GPR-Derived Spatial Covariance Structure in Cassava Field: A Preliminary Investigation. Remote Sensing. 15(7), 1771-1771.
- Angira, B., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Scheuring, C. F., Masor, L., Coleman, J., ... Malla, S. (2022). Genetic dissection of iron deficiency chlorosis by QTL analysis in cowpea. Euphytica. 218(4), 38.
- Angira, B., Zhang, Y., Scheuring, C. F., Zhang, Y., Masor, L., Coleman, J. R., ... Zhang, M. (2022). Construction of a single nucleotide polymorphism linkage map and identification of quantitative trait loci controlling heat tolerance in cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.. Molecular Genetics and Genomics: an international journal. 297(6), 1481-1493.
- Wang, Z., Dhakal, S., Cerit, M., Wang, S., Rauf, Y., Yu, S., ... Liu, S. (2022). QTL mapping of yield components and kernel traits in wheat cultivars TAM 112 and Duster.. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13, 1057701.
- Camarillo-Castillo, F., Huggins, T. D., Mondal, S., Reynolds, M. P., Tilley, M., & Hays, D. B. (2021). High-resolution spectral information enables phenotyping of leaf epicuticular wax in wheat.. Plant Methods. 17(1), 58.
Chapters1
- Reynolds, M. P., Hays, D., & Chapman, S. (2010). Breeding for adaptation to heat and drought stress. Climate Change and Crop Production. 71-91.
Conference Papers2
- Wu, X., Jampala, B., Robbins, A., Hays, D., Yan, S., Xu, F., ... Wang, D. (2010). Ethanol fermentation performance of grain sorghums with modified endosperm matrices. 7, 5688-5705.
- Hernandez, J. R., Capareda, S. C., Hays, D. B., Portillo, O. R., & Rooney, W. L. (2008). Effect of grain sorghum protein digestibility on starch gelatinization and enzymatic conversion to glucose. 8, 4871-4879.
researcher on
Principal Investigator4
- Developing GPR For Enhanced Root and Soil Organic Carbon Imaging awarded by Department of Energy 2016 - 2019
Co-Principal Investigator1
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- ITDE691 Research Instructor
- ITDE691 Research: In-ab Instructor
- ITDE691 Research: N-ab Instructor
- ITDE691 Research:in-ab Instructor
- MEPS601 Physiology Of Plants Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Zahra, Sabahat (2017-07). Characterization of a Wheat Mapping Population for Growth Pattern and Studying Staygreen Wheat Canopy Using Multispectral UAV Images. (Master's Thesis)
- Angira, Brijesh (2016-12). Genetic and Physiological Studies of Heat Tolerance in Cowpea. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Awika, Henry Ochieng (2016-09). Determining How the Physiological and Genomic Interaction between Wax and Staygreen Affects Yield and Water Use in Sorghum Bicolor under Drought and Heat Stress. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Elsayed, Ahmed Abdelfattah (2016-04). Linking QTLs that Regulate the Distinct Epicuticular Layers in the Spike Glume, and Its Variable Composition to Improve Reproductive Stage Heat Tolerance in Wheat. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
dbhays@tamu.edu
First Name
Dirk
Last Name
Hays
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Soil & Crop Science; 2474 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2474
USA
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