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Thanks to the Louise Harkness and David Sinton Ingalls Foundation for their support!
Pictured (L-R): Nick Schlosser, Alexis Balog, Dr. Jean Burns, Evan Fritzke, and Yu Liu at Holden Arboretum, summer 2018.
Ph.D. student Yu Liu's research is exploring the role of soil biota in disease resistance to the devastating pathogen root rot (Phytophthora cinnamomi) in Rhododendron.
Collaborative work with Juliana Medeiros and others (Medeiros et al. 2017, Medeiros et al. 2019, Medeiros et al. 2020) at Holden Arboretum has explored the roles of environment and evolution in structuring Rhododendron root functional traits.
Juliana Medeiros and Jean Burns serve on the steering committee for this international research network.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Bold = BioAlliance Affiliates
Cope, Colin G., Sarah R. Eysenbach, Alexandra S. Faidiga, Constance E. Hausman, Juliana S. Medeiros, Jennifer E. Murphy, and Jean H. Burns. 2021. Potential interactive effects between invasive Lumbricus terrestris earthworms and the invasive plant Alliaria petiolata on a native plant Podophyllum peltatum in northeastern Ohio, USA. AoB PLANTS. 13(1): 1-10. plaa073. DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plaa073
Liu, Yu, Juliana S. Medeiros, Jean H. Burns. 2020. The soil biotic community protects Rhododendron spp. across multiple clades from the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi at a cost to plant growth. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04762-1
Highlighted Student Research
Data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/G6RJP
Medeiros, Juliana S., Charlotte R. Hewins, Aaron Baumgardner, Jean H. Burns. 2020. From many, one: investigating the influence of evolutionary history, phenology and plant architecture on leaf-xylem relationships across ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 181(1):103–115.
Invited.
Medeiros, Juliana S., Yu Liu, and Jean H. Burns. 2019. The Unique Value of Genus Rhododendron for Investigating the Evolutionary Ecology of Root-microbe Interactions. Rhododendrons International. 3: 66-81.
Medeiros, Juliana S., Jean H. Burns, Jaynell Nicholson, Louisa Rogers, and Oscar Valverde-Barrantes. 2017. Decoupled leaf and root carbon economics is a key component in the ecological diversity and evolutionary divergence of deciduous and evergreen lineages of genus Rhododendron. American Journal of Botany. doi: 10.3732/ajb.170005
'Editor's Choice'
Popular Press
Popular Press
Yu Liu. 2018. Student Research Highlight. Rhododendron Research Network Newsletter - July 2, 2018.
Yu Liu and Jean H. Burns. 2018. Plants influence one another through complex interactions with soil microbes. Holden Forest and Gardens Magazine. Fall 2018.
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