Kirstin Bett

Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre

Ph.D (University of Saskatchewan)

M.Sc. (University of Guelph)

B.Sc. (University of Guelph)

Zhe Cao, Didier Socquet-Juglard, Ketema Daba, Albert Vandenberg, Kirstin E Bett. 2024. Understanding Genome Structure Facilitates the Use of Wild Lentil Germplasm for Breeding: A Case Study with Shattering Loci. Plant Genome https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20455

Jeremy Marshall, Ana Vargas, Kirstin E Bett. 2023. B vitamin quantification in lentil seed tissues using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry. Food Chemistry.

Karsten M. E. Neilsen, Hema S. N. Duddu, Kirstin E. Bett, Steve J. Shirtliffe. 2022. UAV image-based crop growth analysis of 3D-reconstructed crop canopies. Plants 11(20): 2691; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11202691

Sandesh Neupane*, Derek M. Wright*, Raul O Martinez, Jakob Butler, James Weller, Kirstin E. Bett. 2022. Focusing the GWAS Lens on days to flower using latent variable phenotypes derived from global multi-environment trials. The Plant Genome 2023;16:e20269. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20269

Azalea Guerra-Garcia, Teketel Haile, Ezgi Ogutcen, Kirstin E. Bett, Eric J von Wettberg. 2022. An evolutionary look into the history of lentil reveals unexpected diversity. Evolutionary Applications. 00:1-13  https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13467

Samira Mafi Moghaddam, Atena Oladzad, Chushin Koh, Larissa Ramsay, John P. Hart, Sujan Mamidi, Genevieve Hoopes, Avinash Sreedasyam, Andrew Wiersma, Dongyan Zhao, Jane Grimwood, John P. Hamilton, Jerry Jenkins, Brieanne Vaillancourt, Joshua C. Wood, Jeremy Schmutz, Sateesh Kagale, Timothy Porch, Kirstin E. Bett, C. Robin Buell, and Phillip E. McClean. 2021. The tepary bean genome provides insight into evolution and domestication under heat stress. Nature Communications. 12: 2638

Derek M. Wright^*, Sandesh Neupane^*, Taryn Heidecker, Teketel A. Haile, Crystal Chan, Clarice J. Coyne, Rebecca J. McGee, Sripada Udupa, Fatima Henkrar, Eleonora Barilli, Diego Rubiales, Tania Gioia, Giuseppina Logozzo, Stefania Marzario, Reena Mehra, Ashutosh Sarker, Rajeev Dhakal, Babul Anwar, Debashish Sarkar, Albert Vandenberg, and Kirstin E. Bett. 2020. Understanding photothermal interactions will help expand production range and increase genetic diversity of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.). Plants People Planet. 3(2):171-181. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10158 ^* contributed equally.

Nishat S Islam, Kirstin E Bett, K Peter Pauls, Frederic Marsolais, and Sangeeta Dhaubhadel. Postharvest seed coat darkening in pinto bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is regulated by P^sd, an allele of the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor P. Plants, People, Planet https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10132 

Halcro, K., K. McNabb, A. Lockinger, D. Socquet-Juglard, K. Bett, and S. Noble. 2020. The BELT and phenoSEED platforms: shape and colour phenotyping of seed samples. Plant Methods 16, 49 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-020-00591-8

• Meritorious Service Award from the North American Pulse Improvement Association, 2019
• Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, 2020
• Distinguished Achievement Award from the Bean Improvement Cooperative, 2013

PLSC 405 Genetics of Plant Populations
PLSC 411 Plant Breeding
PLSC 803 Advanced Plant Breeding
PLSC 898 Digital Phenotyping
PLSC 990 Graduate Seminar