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Dr. Martin Mascher

Research focus

My group investigates crop evolution and adaptation, focusing on how these processes shape genetic diversity in domesticated plants and their wild ancestors. His research centers on temperate cereals—barley, wheat, rye, and oats—leveraging the extensive collections of these crops and their wild relatives housed in the German Federal ex situ genebank.

Forschungsbild Martin Mascher

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Most important publications

  1. Guo Y, Jayakodi M, Himmelbach A, Ben-Yosef E, Davidovich U, David M, Hartmann-Shenkman A, Kislev M, Fahima T, Schuenemann VJ, Reiter E, Krause J, Steffenson BJ, Stein N, Weiss E, Mascher M (2025) A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication. Nature 647(8090):680-688. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09533-7.
  2. Avni R, Kamal N, Bitz L, Jellen EN, Bekele WA, Angessa TT, Auvinen P, Bitz O, Boyle B, Canales FJ, Carlson CH, Chapman B, Chawla HS, Chen Y, Copetti D, Correia de Lemos S, Dang V, Eichten SR, Klos KE, Fenn AM, Fiebig A, Fu YB, Gundlach H, Gupta R, Haberer G, He T, Herrmann MH, Himmelbach A, Howarth CJ, Hu H, Isidro YSJ, Itaya A, Jannink JL, Jia Y, Kaur R, Knauft M, Langdon T, Lux T, Marmon S, Marosi V, Mayer KFX, Michel S, Nandety RS, Nilsen KT, Paczos-Grzeda E, Pasha A, Prats E, Provart NJ, Ravagnani A, Reid RW, Schlueter JA, Schulman AH, Sen TZ, Singh J, Singh M, Sirijovski N, Stein N, Studer B, Viitala S, Vronces S, Walkowiak S, Wang P, Waters AJ, Wight CP, Yan W, Yao E, Zhang XQ, Zhou G, Zhou Z, Tinker NA, Fiedler JD, Li C, Maughan PJ, Spannagl M, Mascher M (2025) A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09676-7.
  3. Feng JW, Pidon H, Cuacos M, Lux T, Himmelbach A, Haghi R, Fuchs J, Haberer G, Kuo YT, Guo Y, Jayakodi M, Toegelova H, Harpke D, Knauft M, Fiebig A, Maruschewski M, Ronen M, Sharon A, Simkova H, Mayer KFX, Spannagl M, Kumlehn J, Heckmann S, Houben A, Blattner FR, Stein N, Mascher M (2025) A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum. Nature 645(8080):429-438. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09270-x.
  4. Mascher M, Jayakodi M, Shim H, Stein N (2024) Promises and challenges of crop translational genomics. Nature 636(8043):585-593. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07713-5.
  5. Mascher M, Gundlach H, Himmelbach A, Beier S, Twardziok SO, Wicker T, Radchuk V, Dockter C, Hedley PE, Russell J, Bayer M, Ramsay L, Liu H, Haberer G, Zhang XQ, Zhang Q, Barrero RA, Li L, Taudien S, Groth M, Felder M, Hastie A, Simkova H, Stankova H, Vrana J, Chan S, Munoz-Amatriain M, Ounit R, Wanamaker S, Bolser D, Colmsee C, Schmutzer T, Aliyeva-Schnorr L, Grasso S, Tanskanen J, Chailyan A, Sampath D, Heavens D, Clissold L, Cao S, Chapman B, Dai F, Han Y, Li H, Li X, Lin C, McCooke JK, Tan C, Wang P, Wang S, Yin S, Zhou G, Poland JA, Bellgard MI, Borisjuk L, Houben A, Dolezel J, Ayling S, Lonardi S, Kersey P, Langridge P, Muehlbauer GJ, Clark MD, Caccamo M, Schulman AH, Mayer KFX, Platzer M, Close TJ, Scholz U, Hansson M, Zhang G, Braumann I, Spannagl M, Li C, Waugh R, Stein N (2017) A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome. Nature 544(7651):427-433. doi: 10.1038/nature22043.
Dr. Martin Mascher
Dr. Martin Mascher

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Domestication Genomics
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)

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