Valentyna Klymiuk

Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre

Ph.D., University of Haifa (Israel)

Ph.D., Institute of Hydrobiology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine

M.Sc (Honours), Donetsk National University (Ukraine)

B.Sc (Honours), Donetsk National University (Ukraine)

Klymiuk V.*, Wiebe K., Chawla H.S., Ens J., Subramaniam R., Pozniak C.J.* (2025) Coordinated function of paired NLRs confers stripe rust resistance in wheat. Nature Genetics 57, 1535–1542. *corresponding author. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02203-4

Reveguk T., Fatiukha A., Potapenko E., Reveguk I., Sela H., Klymiuk V., Li Y., Pozniak C., Wicker T., Coaker G.L., Fahima T. (2025) Atlas of tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom. Nature Genetics, 57, 254–262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-02032-x

Viviani A, Haile J.K., Fernando W.G.D., Ceoloni C., Kuzmanović L., Lhamo D., Gu Q-Q., Xu S.S., Cai X., Buerstmayr H., Elias E.M., Confortini A., Bozzoli M., Gurcharn B., Ruan Y., Berraies S., Hamada W., Oufensou S., Jayawardana M., Walkowiak S., Bourras S., Dayarathne M., y Sánchez J.I., Doohan F., Gadaleta A., Marcotuli I., He X., Singh P.K., Dreisigacker S., Ammar K., Klymiuk V., Pozniak C.J., Tuberosa R., Maccaferri M., Steiner B., Mastrangelo A.M., Cattivelli L. (2025) Priority actions for Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat: Insights from the wheat initiative. The Plant Genome, e20539. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20539

Peters Haugrud, A.R., Achilli, A.L., Martínez‐Peña, R. and Klymiuk, V.* (2024) Future of durum wheat research and breeding: Insights from early career researchers. The Plant Genome, p.e20453. *corresponding author. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20453

Haile J.K., Sertse D., N’Diaye A., Klymiuk V., Wiebe K., Ruan Y., Chawla H.S., Henriquez M.-A., Wang L., Kutcher H.R., Steiner B., Buerstmayr H., Pozniak C.J. (2023) Multi-locus genome-wide association studies reveal the genetic architecture of Fusarium head blight resistance in durum wheat. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1182548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1182548

Li Y., Wei ZZ., Sela H., Govta L., Klymiuk V., Roychowdhury R., Chawla H.S., Ens J., Wiebe K., Bocharova V., Ben-David R., Pawar P.B., Zhang Y., Jaiwar S., Molnár I., Doležel J., Coaker G., Pozniak C.J., Fahima T. (2023) Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69. Plant Commun. 100646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100646

Klymiuk V., Haile T., Ens J., Wiebe K., N’Diaye A., Fatiukha A., Krugman T., Ben-David R., Hübner S., Cloutier S., Pozniak C.J. (2023) Genetic architecture of rust resistance in a wheat (Triticum turgidum) diversity panel. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1145371. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1145371

Klymiuk V., Chawla H.S., Wiebe K., Ens J., Fatiukha A., Govta L., Fahima T., Pozniak C.J. (2022) Bulked segregant analysis sequencing discovery of stripe rust resistance with incomplete dominance in wild emmer wheat. Communications Biology 5, 826. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03773-3

Klymiuk V.*, Coaker G., Fahima T., Pozniak C.J. (2021) Tandem protein kinases emerge as new regulators of plant immunity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. *corresponding author. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-03-21-0073-CR

• Carlotta Award 2022 for the topic wheat genetics, genomics and breeding
• 2019 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career award winner