David Bryant Lowry

The paper identifies a supernumerary B-Chromosome in Atlantic switchgrass, showing its evolutionary origin and impact on gene expression and genomic diversity.

This study examines how heat stress affects pollen viability in two monkeyflower species and their populations, finding variation in heat sensitivity across species and populations but not elevational categories.

This study integrates multi-omic data with interpretable machine learning to identify genetic mechanisms underlying trait variation and phenotypic plasticity in switchgrass across environments.

This study identifies genetic variants associated with lipoma susceptibility and links them to telomere biology, showing a positive association between genetically predicted longer telomeres and lipoma risk.

This study identifies a physiological mechanism in a desert plant that enables survival in extreme heat through leaf cooling.

This study identifies salt spray exclusion and tissue tolerance as mechanisms enabling coastal monkeyflowers to resist oceanic salt spray.

The study manipulates plant hormones and herbivory to assess their impact on local adaptation in Mimulus guttatus, finding that salt spray tolerance, not herbivory, drives coastal ecotype adaptation.

The paper examines how phenotypic plasticity in Populus species affects fitness under climate warming, finding that higher plasticity is maladaptive in warmer environments.

The paper predicts geographic shifts in hybrid Populus zones based on temperature response variation in admixed genotypes.

The paper introduces a floral injection method to improve Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in Mimulus guttatus, enabling transformation of both coastal perennial and inland annual ecotypes.

This study compares gene expression between coastal perennial and inland annual ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus across developmental stages, identifying significant divergence in hormone-related pathways.

The paper examines local adaptation between switchgrass and its rust pathogen across North America, finding that both host and parasite can be locally adapted despite varying genetic loci associated with rust severity.

This study investigates the evolutionary dynamics of a chromosomal inversion polymorphism in Mimulus guttatus, finding that nested inversions are older and supporting the supergene mechanism of adaptive evolution.

The paper identifies genotype-by-weather interactions in switchgrass by analyzing phenological timings across multiple environments and weather cues.

The paper identifies geographic variation in the genetic basis of rust resistance in switchgrass, finding two large-effect QTLs and epistatic interactions that vary with location.