Brandi Sigmon

Brandi Sigmon

Assistant Professor of Practice

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Brandi Sigmon is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Plant Pathology at UNL. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Mars Hill College and a PhD in Genetics from Iowa State University. Her research focuses on using classical genetic, quantitative genetic, and comparative genomic tools to investigate grass inflorescences as a model to understand evolution and development.

Courses Taught

  • BIOS 206 General Genetics
  • SCIL 101 Science and Decision-Making for a Complex World



Recent Publications

  • Wei J, Guo T, Mu Q, Alladassi M, Mural RV, Boyles RE, Hoffman L, Hayes CM, Sigmon B, Thompson AM, Salas-Fernandez M, Rooney WL, Kresovich S, Schnable JC, Li X, Yu J (2024) Genetic and environmental patterns underlying phenotypic plasticity in flowering time and plant height in sorghum. Plant, Cell and Environment doi: 10.1111/pce.15213
  • Linders KM, Santra D, Schnable JC, Sigmon B (2024) Variation in leaf chlorophyll concentration in response to nitrogen application across maize hybrids in contrasting environments. microPublication Biology doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001115
  • Meier M, Xu G, Lopez-Guerrero, Li G, Smith C, Sigmon B, Herr J, Alfano J, Ge Y, Schnable JC, Yang J (2022) Maize root-associated microbes likely under adaptive selection by the host to enhance phenotypic performance. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.75790 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.11.01.466815
  • Sun G, Wase N, Su S, Jenkins J, Zhou B, Torres-Rodriguez JT, ..., Foltz A, ..., Sigmon B, Yu B, Obata T, Schmutz J, Schnable JC (2022) Genome of Paspalum vaginatum and the role of trehalose mediated autophagy in increasing maize biomass. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35507-8 (Foltz A is 17 of 26 authors) bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.08.18.456832
  • Mural RV, Sun G, Grzybowski M, Tross MC, Jin H, Smith C, Newton L, Andorf CM, Woodhouse MR, Thompson AM, Sigmon B, Schnable JC (2022) Association mapping across a multitude of traits collected in diverse environments identifies pleiotropic loci in maize. Gigascience doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac080 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.02.25.480753
  • Mural RV, Grzybowski M, Miao C, Damke A, Sapkota S, Boyles RE, Salas Fernandez MG, Schnable PS, Sigmon B, Kresovich S, Schnable JC (2021) Meta-analysis identifies pleiotropic loci controlling phenotypic trade-offs in sorghum. Genetics doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab087 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.10.27.355495
  • Zheng Z, Hey S, Jubery T, Liu T, Yang Y, Coffey L, Miao C, Sigmon B, Schnable JC, Hochholdinger F, Ganapathysubramanian B, Schnable PS (2020) Shared genetic control of root system architecture between Zea mays and Sorghum bicolor. Plant Physiology doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00752
  • Ge Y, Atefi A, Zhang H, Miao C, Ramamurthy RK, Sigmon B, Yang J, Schnable JC (2019) High-throughput analysis of leaf physiological and chemical traits with VIS-NIR-SWIR spectroscopy: A case study with a maize diversity panel. Plant Methods doi: 10.1186/s13007-019-0450-8