Jonathan F. Wendel

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Jonathan F. Wendel

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He joined [[Iowa State University]] in 1986 as an assistant professor of botany. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1996. In 2012, he was appointed Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University.{{cite web |title=Employees will be honored at Friday ceremony |url=https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2012/09/20/awards |website=Iowa State University |language=en}} He served as chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology from 2003 to 2017 and previously served as interim chair from 2002 to 2003.{{cite web |title=Dr. Jonathan F Wendel |url=https://www.eeob.iastate.edu/people/jonathan-wendel |website=Iowa State University|language=en}}
He joined [[Iowa State University]] in 1986 as an assistant professor of botany. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1996. In 2012, he was appointed Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University.{{cite web |title=Employees will be honored at Friday ceremony |url=https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2012/09/20/awards |website=Iowa State University |language=en}} He served as chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology from 2003 to 2017 and previously served as interim chair from 2002 to 2003.{{cite web |title=Dr. Jonathan F Wendel |url=https://www.eeob.iastate.edu/people/jonathan-wendel |website=Iowa State University|language=en}}

== Research ==
Wendel's research focuses on plant genomic and phenotypic diversity, with particular emphasis on [[polyploidy]] (whole-[[genome duplication]]).{{cite journal |last1=Twyford |first1=Alex D. |last2=Conover |first2=Justin L. |last3=Doyle |first3=Jeff J. |last4=Mason |first4=Annaliese S. |last5=Soltis |first5=Douglas E. |last6=Soltis |first6=Pamela S. |last7=Wendel |first7=Jonathan F. |title=The polyploid continuum and the landscape of polyploid genomic variation |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=November 2025 |volume=112 |issue=11 |pages=e70121 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.70121 |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12640477/ |issn=1537-2197}} Much of his work examines the evolutionary consequences of [[allopolyploidy]], in which two diverged [[diploid]] genomes become united within a single [[cell nucleus|nucleus]].{{cite journal |last1=Buggs |first1=Richard J. A. |last2=Wendel |first2=Jonathan F. |last3=Doyle |first3=Jeffrey J. |last4=Soltis |first4=Douglas E. |last5=Soltis |first5=Pamela S. |last6=Coate |first6=Jeremy E. |title=The legacy of diploid progenitors in allopolyploid gene expression patterns |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences |date=5 August 2014 |volume=369 |issue=1648 |pages=20130354 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2013.0354 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24958927/ |issn=1471-2970}} His studies have investigated genomic processes associated with allopolyploid formation and evolution, including intergenomic [[gene conversion]], homoeolog expression bias, duplicate gene co-regulation, expression dominance, biased genome fractionation, and the evolutionary trajectories of duplicated genetic networks.

A major focus of his research has been the cotton genus (''[[Gossypium]]''), which he has used as a model system to examine genome doubling, genome organization, gene expression divergence, and the genetic basis of domestication and crop traits. His work has contributed to understanding how duplicated genes and regulatory networks evolve following genome merger and doubling.{{cite journal |last1=Wendel |first1=Jonathan F. |last2=Brubaker |first2=Curt L. |last3=Seelanan |first3=Tosak |title=The Origin and Evolution of Gossypium |journal=Physiology of Cotton |date=2010 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1007/978-90-481-3195-2_1 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3195-2_1 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en}}

In addition to cotton, Wendel has conducted research on other plant groups, including maize (''[[Zea mays]]''),{{cite journal |last1=Wendel |first1=Jonathan F. |last2=Goodman |first2=Major M. |last3=Stuber |first3=C. W. |last4=Beckett |first4=J. B. |title=New isozyme systems for maize (Zea mays L.): Aconitate hydratase, adenylate kinase, NADH dehydrogenase, and shikimate dehydrogenase |journal=Biochemical Genetics |date=1 June 1988 |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=421–445 |doi=10.1007/BF02401795 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02401795 |language=en |issn=1573-4927}} rice (''[[Oryza]]''),{{cite journal |last1=Bao |first1=Ying |last2=Wendel |first2=Jonathan F. |last3=Ge |first3=Song |title=Multiple patterns of rDNA evolution following polyploidy in Oryza |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=April 2010 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=136–142 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.023 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19857580/ |issn=1095-9513}} bamboos,{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Weiping |last2=Wendel |first2=Jonathan F. |last3=Clark |first3=Lynn G. |title=Bamboozled Again! Inadvertent Isolation of Fungal rDNA Sequences from Bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=1 October 1997 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=205–217 |doi=10.1006/mpev.1997.0422 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105579039790422X |issn=1055-7903}} and baobabs (''[[Adansonia]]''),{{cite journal |last1=Baum |first1=David A. |last2=Small |first2=Randall L. |last3=Wendel |first3=Jonathan F. |title=Biogeography and Floral Evolution of Baobabs Adansonia, Bombacaceae as Inferred From Multiple Data Sets |journal=Systematic Biology |date=1 June 1998 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=181–207 |doi=10.1080/106351598260879 |url=https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article-abstract/47/2/181/1655064}} using molecular and genomic approaches to study phylogenetic relationships, polyploidy, and plant diversification.{{cite journal |last1=Rafieva |first1=Feruza U. |last2=Turaev |first2=Ozod S. |last3=Toshpulatov |first3=Abdulqahhor Kh. |last4=Oripova |first4=Barno B. |last5=Kudratova |first5=Mukhlisa K. |last6=Safiullina |first6=Asiya K. |last7=Arslanova |first7=Sevara K. |last8=Gapparov |first8=Bunyod M. |last9=Iskandarov |first9=Abdulloh A. |last10=Makhmudova |first10=Maftuna |last11=Muradullayev |first11=Alisher |last12=Azimova |first12=Laylo A. |last13=Kholova |first13=Madina D. |last14=Ernazarova |first14=Dilrabo K. |last15=Kushanov |first15=Fakhriddin N. |title=Phylogenetic relationships of tetraploid cotton species ( Gossypium subsp.) and their genetic potential for breeding programs |journal=Cogent Food & Agriculture |date=31 December 2026 |volume=12 |issue=1 |doi=10.1080/23311932.2026.2620840 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311932.2026.2620840#abstract}}


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