Recent progress and challenges in population genetics of polyploid organisms: an overview of current state‐of‐the‐art molecular and statistical tools

F Dufresne, M Stift, R Vergilino, BK Mable - Molecular ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the importance of polyploidy and the increasing availability of new genomic data,
there remain important gaps in our knowledge of polyploid population genetics. These gaps …

Adaptation of pathogens to their local plant host, Silphium integrifolium, along a precipitation gradient

E Cassetta, K Peterson, JD Bever, Y Brandvain… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical evidence of the influence of climate on plant–pathogen coevolution is limited but
crucial to understand, as anthropogenic pressures including fragmentation and climate …

Ecotypes of an ecologically dominant prairie grass (Andropogon gerardii) exhibit genetic divergence across the US Midwest grasslands' environmental gradient

MM Gray, P St. Amand, NM Bello, MB Galliart… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Big bluestem (A ndropogon gerardii) is an ecologically dominant grass with wide distribution
across the environmental gradient of US Midwest grasslands. This system offers an ideal …

Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change

AB Smith, J Alsdurf, M Knapp, SG Baer… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic distribution within species can vary widely across environmental gradients but
forecasts of species' responses to environmental change often assume species respond …

Information networks for disease: commonalities in human management networks and within-host signalling networks

KA Garrett - European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2012 - Springer
Network models of human epidemics can often be improved by including the effects of
behaviour modification in response to information about the approach of epidemics …

Disease resistance gene count increases with rainfall in Silphium integrifolium

K Keepers, K Peterson, A Raduski… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Intracellular plant defense against pathogens is mediated by a class of disease resistance
genes known as NB‐LRRs or NLRs (R genes). Many of the diseases these genes protect …

Plant community response to regional sources of dominant grasses in grasslands restored across a longitudinal gradient

LR Wilson, DJ Gibson, SG Baer, LC Johnson - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Restorations in the light of climate change will need to take into account whether or not
sources of the dominant plants are adapted to the future conditions at a site. In addition, the …

Phytobiome stampede: Bison as potential dispersal agents for the tallgrass prairie microbiome

AA Saleh, N Kraisitudomsook, EE Frank… - …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Dispersal by grazing and browsing animals has the potential to structure plant-associated
microbes in plant communities. Bison are one of the largest grazing animals in North …

Soil quality and region influence performance and ranking of switchgrass genotypes

MD Casler, S Sosa, AR Boe, SA Bonos - Crop science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Development of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) as a dedicated bioenergy feedstock
requires intensive and extensive breeding programs that include careful and thoughtful …

Isolation and diversity analysis of resistance gene homologues from switchgrass

Q Zhu, JL Bennetzen, SM Smith - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Resistance gene homologs (RGHs) were isolated from the switchgrass variety Alamo by a
combination of polymerase chain reaction and expressed sequence tag (EST) database …