Kelly Vining

Assistant Professor
kelly.vining [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-0018
Other: 541-737-0646

Agricultural & Life Sciences

Agricultural & Life Sciences 4123

2750 SW Campus Way

2750 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

My research integrates the powerful tools of genomics and bioinformatics with plant breeding. I work mainly with minor or specialty crops grown in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. 

Mints are important specialty crops in Oregon and Washington. They are grown for their distilled oils, which are used in a wide variety of consumer products. Peppermint (Mentha xpiperita) is the highest-value mint crop, and cannot be traditionally bred because it is a sterile hexaploid (six genome copies). Black Mitcham peppermint, the most widely-grown cultivar, is highly susceptible to Verticillium wilt, a fungal disease caused by Verticillium dahliae. Working with wild mint species that have resistance to this disease, I am identifying genes and associated markers for wilt resistance. 

Curriculum Vitae: 
File vining_cv_jan2015.docx

Profile Field Tabs

At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Horticulture
Career Links: 
Department of Horticulture
Plant Breeding and Genetics
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for Horticulture
My Publications

2015

Journal Article

K. J. Vining, Romanel, E., Jones, R. C., Klocko, A., Alves-Ferreira, M., Hefer, C. A., Amarasinghe, V., Dharmawardhana, P., Naithani, S., Ranik, M., Wesley-Smith, J., Solomon, L., Jaiswal, P., Myburg, A. A., and Strauss, S. H., “The floral transcriptome of Eucalyptus grandis”, New Phytologist, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1406 - 1422, 2015.

2014

Journal Article

D. Bryant, Bushakra, J. M., Dossett, M., Vining, K. J., Filichkin, S., Weiland, J., Lee, J., Finn, C. E., Bassil, N., and Mockler, T., “Building the genomic infrastructure in black raspberry”, HortScience, 2014.
A. A. Myburg, Grattapaglia, D., Tuskan, G. A., Hellsten, U., Hayes, R. D., Grimwood, J., Jenkins, J., Lindquist, E., Tice, H., Bauer, D., Goodstein, D. M., Dubchak, I., Poliakov, A., Mizrachi, E., Kullan, A. R. K., Hussey, S. G., Pinard, D., van der Merwe, K., Singh, P., van Jaarsveld, I., Silva-Junior, O. B., Togawa, R. C., Pappas, M. R., Faria, D. A., Sansaloni, C. P., Petroli, C. D., Yang, X., Ranjan, P., Tschaplinski, T. J., Ye, C. - Y., Li, T., Sterck, L., Vanneste, K., Murat, F., Soler, çal, San Clemente, élène, Saidi, N., Cassan-Wang, H., Dunand, C., Hefer, C. A., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Kersting, A. R., Vining, K. J., Amarasinghe, V., Ranik, M., Naithani, S., Elser, J., Boyd, A. E., Liston, A., Spatafora, J. W., Dharmwardhana, P., Raja, R., Sullivan, C., Romanel, E., Alves-Ferreira, M., ülheim, C., Foley, W., Carocha, V., Paiva, J., Kudrna, D., Brommonschenkel, S. H., Pasquali, G., Byrne, M., Rigault, P., Tibbits, J., Spokevicius, A., Jones, R. C., Steane, D. A., Vaillancourt, éE., Potts, B. M., Joubert, F., Barry, K., Pappas, G. J., Strauss, S. H., Jaiswal, P., Grima-Pettenati, J., Salse, érôme, Van de Peer, Y., Rokhsar, D. S., and Schmutz, J., “The genome of Eucalyptus grandis”, Nature, vol. 51, no. 75, pp. 356 - 362, 2014.

2013

Journal Article

K. J. Vining, Pomraning, K. R., Wilhelm, L. J., Ma, C., Pellegrini, M., Di, Y., Mockler, T. C., Freitag, M., and Strauss, S. H., “Methylome reorganization during in vitro dedifferentiation and regeneration of Populus trichocarpa”, BMC Plant Biology, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 92, 2013.

2012

Journal Article

K. J. Vining, Pomraning, K. R., Wilhelm, L. J., Priest, H. D., Pellegrini, M., Mockler, T. C., Freitag, M., and Strauss, S. H., “Dynamic DNA cytosine methylation in the Populus trichocarpa genome: tissue-level variation and relationship to gene expression”, BMC Genomics, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 27, 2012.
K. J. Vining, Contreras, R., Ranik, M., and Strauss, S. H., “Genetic methods for mitigating invasiveness of woody ornamental plants: Research needs and opportunities.”, HortScience, vol. 47, no. 9, 2012.
G. T. Slavov, DiFazio, S. P., Martin, J., Schackwitz, W., Muchero, W., Rodgers-Melnick, E., Lipphardt, M. F., Pennacchio, C. P., Hellsten, U., Pennacchio, L. A., Gunter, L. E., Ranjan, P., Vining, K. J., Pomraning, K. R., Wilhelm, L. J., Pellegrini, M., Mockler, T. C., Freitag, M., Geraldes, A., El-Kassaby, Y. A., Mansfield, S. D., Cronk, Q. C. B., Douglas, C. J., Strauss, S. H., Rokhsar, D., and Tuskan, G. A., “Genome resequencing reveals multiscale geographic structure and extensive linkage disequilibrium in the forest tree Populus trichocarpa”, New Phytologist, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 713 - 725, 2012.

2009

Journal Article

K. J. Vining and Davis, T., “Isolation of a Ve homolog, mVe1, and its relationship to verticillium wilt resistance in Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds”, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, vol. 28, no. 29, pp. 173 - 184, 2009.