Publications

Articles

______________2025______________

S-K. Ng, R. M. Gutaker (2025) Negligible effect of host DNA on metagenomic analysis enables microbial ecology investigation in historical samples. bioRxiv, 2025.04. 05.647358

G. P. Burton, H. M. Botey, P. Ceci, C. C. Chater, R. M. Gutaker, A. C. Jackson, P. Ryan, C. E. Seal,  C. G. N. Turnbull,  M. S. Vorontsova, E. Mattana,  T. Ulian (2025) Impacts of climate change on fonio millet: in-vitro seed germination and suitability modelling of an important indigenous West African crop. bioRxiv, 2025.03. 14.641845

A. P. Davis, C. C. Chater, E. Warham and R. M. Gutaker (2025) Why agriculture and food systems are a key research theme for the climate–biodiversity–people nexus. Agriculture for Development, 49 (2025), Article 1

L. Kistler, F. De Oliveira Freitas, R. M. Gutaker (22 others) R. G. Allaby (2025) Historic manioc genomes illuminate maintenance of diversity under long-lived clonal cultivation.  Science 6738 (387)

______________2024______________

A. J. Romero, A. Kolesnikova, T. H. G. Ezard, M. Charles, R. M. Gutaker, C. P. Osborn, M. A. Chapman (2024) ‘Domesticability’: were some species predisposed for domestication? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 

______________2023______________

R. M. Gutaker, M. D. Purugganan (2023) Adaptation and the Geographic Spread of Crop Species. Annual Review of Plant Biology 75:2.1–2.28

H. A. Burbano, R. M. Gutaker (2023) Ancient DNA genomics and the renaissance of herbaria. Science 6666 (382): 59-63 

______________2022______________

A. Alsantely, R. M. Gutaker, M. E. N. Rodríguez, G. Arrieta-Espinoza, E. J. Fuchs, A. Costa de Oliveira, J. Tohme, A. Zuccolo, R. A Wing, A. Fornasiero (2022) The International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP): the Americas—past achievements and future directions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74 (5)

R.M. Gutaker, C.C.C. Chater, J. Brinton, E. Castillo-Lorenzo, E. Breman, S. Pironon (2022) Scaling up neodomestication for climate-ready crops. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 66

______________2021______________

O. Alam*, R.M. Gutaker*, C. Wu*, K.A. Hicks, K. Bocinsky, C.C. Castillo, S. Acabado, D.Q. Fuller, J.A. d'Alpoim Guedes, Y.-e. Hsing, M.D. Purugganan (2021) Genome analysis traces regional dispersal of rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38: 4832–4846 

O.A. Pérez-Escobar, S. Bellott, N.A.S. Przelomska, J.M. Flowers, M. Nesbitt, P. Ryan, R.M. Gutaker and 22 others (2021) Molecular clocks and archaeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian date palm leaf reveal introgression from wild relatives and add timestamps on the domestication. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38: 4475–4492

______________2020______________

S. L. Latorre, Patricia M. L. Lang, H. A. Burbano, R. M. Gutaker (2020) Isolation and Analyses of DNA from Historical and Ancient Plant Tissues. Current Protocols in Plant Biology  5: https://doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20121

R. M. Gutaker, S. C. Groen, E. S. Bellis, J. Y. Choi, I. S. Pires, R. K. Bocinsky, E. R. Slayton, O. Wilkins, C. C. Castillo, S. Negrão, M. M. Oliveira, D. Q. Fuller, J. A. d’Alpoim Guedes, J. R. Lasky, M. D. Purugganan (2020) Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice. Nature Plants 6: 492-502

______________2019 ______________

R. M. Gutaker, C. L. Weiß, D. Ellis, N. L. Anglin, S. Knapp, J. L. Fernández-Alonso, S. Prat, H. A. Burbano (2019) The origins and adaptation of European potatoes reconstructed from historical genomes. Nature Ecology & Evolution: 3: 1093-1101

J. Y. Choi, M. Zaidem, R. M. Gutaker, K. Dorph, R. K. Singh, M. D. Purugganan (2019) The complex geography of domestication of the African rice Oryza glaberrima. PLoS Genetics: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007414 

R. M. Gutaker, M. Zaidem, Y.-B. Fu, A. Diederichsen, O. Smith, R. Ware, R. G. Allaby (2019) Flax latitudinal adaptation at LuTFL1 altered architecture and promoted fiber production. Scientific Reports 9: 976

______________2018______________

W. Zhu*, M. Zaidem*, A.-L. Van de Weyer, R. M. Gutaker, E. Chae, S.-T. Kim, F. Bemm, L. Li, M. Todesco, R. Schwab, F. Unger, M. J. Beha, M. Demar, D. Weigel (2018) Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene. PLoS Genetics: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007628

______________2017______________

K. Swarts, R. M. Gutaker, B. Benz, M. Blake, R. Bukowski, J. Holland, M. Kruse-Peeples, N. Lepak, L. Prim, M. C. Romay, J. Ross-Ibarra, J. J. Sanchez-Gonzalez, C. Schmidt, V. J. Schuenemann, J. Krause, R. G. Matson, D. Weigel, E. S. Buckler, H. A. Burbano (2017) Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptation to temperate North America. Science 357: 512-515

A. Durvasula*, A. Fulgione*, R. M. Gutaker, S. I. Alacakaptan, P. J. Flood, C. Neto, C. Alonso-Blanco, H. A. Burbano, F. X. Pico, T. Tsuchimatsu, A. M. Hancock (2017) African genomes illuminate the early history and trasition to selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana. PNAS 114: 5213-5218

R. M. Gutaker, H. A. Burbano (2017). Reinforcing plant evolutionary genomics using ancient DNA. Current Opinions in Plant Biology 36: 38-45

R. M. Gutaker, E. Reiter, A. Furtwängler, V. J. Schuenemann, H. A. Burbano (2017). Extraction of ultrashort DNA molecules from herbarium specimens. Biotechniques 62: 76-79

______________2016 ______________

L. Banasiak, A. Wojewódzka, J. Baczyński, J-P. Reduron, M. Piwczyński, R. Kurzyna-Młynik, R. Gutaker, A. Czarnocka-Cieciura, S. Kosmala-Grzechnik, K. Spalik (2016). Phylogeny of Apiaceae subtribe Daucinae and the taxonomic delineation of its genera. Taxon 65: 563-585

______________2015 ______________

R.G. Allaby, R.M. Gutaker, A. Clarke, N. Pearson, R. Ware, S.A. Palmer, J.L. Kitchen and O. Smith (2015) Using archaeogenomic and computational approaches to unravel the history of local adaptation in crops. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 370: 20130377

R.G. Allaby, L. Kistler, R.M. Gutaker, R. Ware, J.L. Kitchen, O. Smith and A. Clarke (2015) Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene. Journal of Human Evolution 79: 150-157

Books

O. Smith, S. A. Palmer, R. M. Gutaker, R. G. Allaby (2016) An NGS approach to archaeobotanical museum specimens as genetic resources in systematics research in Next Generation Systematics ed. P. D. Olson, J. Hughes, J. A. Cotton. Cambridge University Press