Kirstin Bett

Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre

Ph.D (University of Saskatchewan)

M.Sc. (University of Guelph)

B.Sc. (University of Guelph)

Wright, D. M., Hang, J., House, J. D., & Bett, K. E. (2025). Breeding potential of cultivated lentil for increased protein and amino acid concentrations in the Northern Great Plains. Crop Science, e70085. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.70085

Azalea Guerra-Garcia, Jana Balarynová, Petr Smykal, Eric J von Wettberg, Scott D. Noble, Kirstin E. Bett. 2025. Genetic and transcriptomic analysis of lentil seed imbibition and dormancy in relation to its domestication. The Plant Genome  https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70021

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.

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 

• 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 408 Global Plant Genetic Resources
PLSC 411 Plant Breeding
PLSC 803 Advanced Plant Breeding
PLSC/CMPT 878 Computational Agriculture
PLSC 990 Graduate Seminar