Asela Wijeratne Source Confirmed

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Researcher

Arkansas State University

faculty

21 h-index 72 pubs 1,623 cited

Research Areas

Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Microbial infections and disease research Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Asela Wijeratne's research focuses on understanding the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying plant-pathogen interactions and plant responses to environmental stress. Her work includes investigating the resistance of sorghum to *Striga*, a parasitic plant, and analyzing the soybean-*Phytophthora sojae* pathosystem. Wijeratne has also studied the transcriptomic atlas of *Striga* germination and gene regulatory networks in soybean infected by *Phytophthora sojae*. Her research extends to plant responses to water deficit stress, as demonstrated by her time-course transcriptomic analysis of *Petunia ×hybrida* leaves.

Beyond plant biology, Wijeratne's research interests encompass microbial ecology and host specificity, with publications examining the population structure of avian feather mites and the microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts. She has a demonstrated publication record with 72 total publications and 1,623 citations, achieving an h-index of 21. Wijeratne is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant totaling $1,999,484, focused on understanding invasion and disease ecology and evolution through computational data education. She collaborates with several faculty members at Arkansas State University, including Brett Hale, Than J. Boves, Emily S. Bellis, and Andrew D. Sweet.

Metrics

  • h-index: 21
  • Publications: 72
  • Citations: 1,623

Selected Publications

  • Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis Provides Insights into the Rhizosphere Microbial Dynamics in Soybean – <i>Fusarium virguliforme</i> Interaction (2026) DOI
  • Assessment of rhizosphere microbial activity using optimized RNA extraction coupled with universal ribosomal RNA depletion techniques (2025) DOI
  • Assessment of rhizosphere microbial activity using optimized RNA extraction coupled with universal ribosomal RNA (rRNA) depletion techniques  (2024) DOI
  • Cell Wall Dynamics in the Parasitic Plant (<i>Striga</i>) and Rice Pathosystem (2024) DOI
  • Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts (2024) DOI
  • Unveiling the immune dynamics of Neisseria persistent oral colonization: a roadmap for innovative vaccine strategies (2024) DOI
  • Fine-scale characterization of the soybean rhizosphere microbiome via synthetic long reads and avidity sequencing (2024) DOI
  • Correction: Hale et al. Differential Expression Profiling Reveals Stress-Induced Cell Fate Divergence in Soybean Microspores. Plants 2020, 9, 1510 (2024) DOI
  • Unveiling the immune dynamics of <i>Neisseria</i> persistent oral colonization (2024) DOI
  • Unveiling the Immune Dynamics of Neisseria Persistent Oral Colonization: A Roadmap for Innovative Vaccine Strategies (2023) DOI
  • Population Genomics of Pooled Samples: Unveiling Symbiont Infrapopulation Diversity and Host–Symbiont Coevolution (2023) DOI
  • Novel insights into symbiont population structure: Globe‐trotting avian feather mites contradict the specialist–generalist variation hypothesis (2023) DOI
  • Gene regulatory network inference in soybean upon infection by Phytophthora sojae (2023) DOI
  • Transcriptome atlas of <i>Striga</i> germination: Implications for managing an intractable parasitic plant (2023) DOI
  • Resolving intergenotypic <i>Striga</i> resistance in sorghum (2023) DOI

Federal Grants 1 $1,999,484 total

NSF Co-PI

Understanding Invasion and Disease Ecology and Evolution through Computational Data Education

NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) $1,999,484

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Brett Hale Arkansas State University 13 shared publications Than J. Boves Arkansas State University 7 shared publications Emily S. Bellis Arkansas State University 5 shared publications Andrew D. Sweet Arkansas State University 4 shared publications Ashley Flory Arkansas State University 2 shared publications Matthew Conatser Arkansas State University 2 shared publications Maureen C. Dolan Arkansas State University 2 shared publications Naina Rao Arkansas State University 1 shared publication

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