Unique challenges and opportunities for northeastern US crop production in a changing climate.

Wolfe, D.W., DeGaetano, A.T., Peck, G.M., Carey, M., Ziska, L.H., Lea-Cox, J., Kemanian, A.R., Hoffmann, M.P., and Hollinger, D.Y. 2017. Climatic Change.

Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi. 

Mondo, S.J., Lastovetsky, O.A., Gaspar, M.L., Schwardt, N.H., Barber, C.C., Riley, R., Sun, H., Grigoriev, I.V., and Pawlowska, T.E. 2017. Nature Communications 8:1843.

Decreased sorbitol synthesis leads to abnormal stamen development and reduced pollen tube growth via an MYB transcription factor, MdMYB39L, in apple (Malus domestica).

Meng, D., He, M., Bai, Y., Xu, H., Dandekar, A.M., Fei, Z., and Cheng, L. New Phytologist:n/a-n/a.

Dry cultivation enhances cadmium solubility in contaminated soils but minimizes cadmium accumulation in a leafy vegetable.

Tai, Y.-P., Li, Z.-A., McBride, M.B., and Yang, Y. 2017. Journal of Soils and Sediments 17:2822-2830.

A new look at soil phenoforms – Definition, identification, mapping.

Rossiter, D.G., and Bouma, J. 2018. Geoderma 314:113-121.

Computer Vision for High-Throughput Quantitative Phenotyping: A Case Study of Grapevine Downy Mildew Sporulation and Leaf Trichomes.

Divilov, K., Wiesner-Hanks, T., Barba, P., Cadle-Davidson, L., and Reisch, B.I. 2017. Phytopathology 107:1549-1555.

The evolution of hydrophobic cell wall biopolymers: from algae to angiosperms.

Niklas, K.J., Cobb, E.D., and Matas, A.J. 2017.  Journal of Experimental Botany 68:5261-5269.

S5H/DMR6 Encodes a Salicylic Acid 5-Hydroxylase That Fine-Tunes Salicylic Acid Homeostasis.

Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Zhao, J., Li, Y., Wang, J., Guo, R., Gan, S., Liu, C.-J., and Zhang, K. 2017. Plant Physiology 175:1082-1093.

Is there foul play in the leaf pocket? The metagenome of floating fern Azolla reveals endophytes that do not fix N2 but may denitrify.

Dijkhuizen, L.W., Brouwer, P., Bolhuis, H., Reichart, G.-J., Koppers, N., Huettel, B., Bolger, A.M., Li, F.-W., Cheng, S., Liu, X., Wong, G.K.-S., Pryer, K., Weber, A., Bräutigam, A., and Schluepmann, H. 2018.  New Phytologist 217:453-466.