David J Weston Staff Scientist Contact westondj@ornl.gov | 865.241.8323 All Publications Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months An integrated metagenomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic survey of Populus across genotypes and environments Plant Disease Detection Technology Assessment Temperature and CO2 interactively drive shifts in the compositional and functional structure of peatland protist communities Probabilistic measures for biological adaptation and resilience Engineering Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in C3 and C4 Plants... Engineering Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in C3 and C4 Plants Sulfur speciation in Sphagnum peat moss modified by mutualistic interactions with cyanobacteria Rapid screening of wood and leaf tissues: investigating silicon-based phytoliths in Populus trichocarpa for carbon storage applications using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy JGI Plant Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom Predicted structural proteome of Sphagnum divinum and proteome-scale annotation... Clonality, local population structure, and gametophyte sex ratios in cryptic species of the Sphagnum magellanicum complex Divergent selection and climate adaptation fuel genomic differentiation between sister species of Sphagnum (peat moss) A rapid assay for assessing bacterial effects on Arabidopsis thermotolerance... Viral infections likely mediate microbial controls on ecosystem responses to global warming Climate drivers alter nitrogen availability in surface peat and decouple N2 fixation from CH4 oxidation in the Sphagnum moss microbiome Newly identified sex chromosomes in the Sphagnum (peat moss) genome alter carbon sequestration and ecosystem dynamics A research agenda for nonvascular photoautotrophs under climate change Draft Metagenome Sequences of the Sphagnum (Peat Moss) Microbiome from Ambient and Warmed Environments across Europe... Genome-wide identification and functional prediction of silicon (Si) transporters in poplar (Populus trichocarpa) Phylogenomic structure and speciation in an emerging model: the Sphagnum magellanicum complex (Bryophyta)... Plant carbohydrate storage: intra- and inter-specific trade-offs reveal a major life history trait... Reporter genes confer new-to-nature ornamental traits in plants... Habitat-adapted microbial communities mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming... Defining the Sphagnum Core Microbiome across the North American Continent Reveals a Central Role for Diazotrophic Methanotrop... Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Key Links ORCID Organizations Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate Biosciences Division Biodesign and Systems Biology Section Plant Systems Biology Group User Facilities