selected publications academic article Edwards, J. A., Saran, U. B., Bonnette, J., MacQueen, A., Yin, J., Nguyen, T. U., ... Juenger, T. E. (2023). Genetic determinants of switchgrass-root-associated microbiota in field sites spanning its natural range. Current Biology. 33(10), 1926-1938.e6. Khasanova, A., Edwards, J., Bonnette, J., Singer, E., Haque, T., & Juenger, T. E. (2023). Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 290(1991), Santos-Medelln, C., Edwards, J., Nguyen, B., & Sundaresan, V. (2022). Acquisition of a complex root microbiome reshapes the transcriptomes of rice plants. New Phytologist. 235(5), 2008-2021. Mueller, U. G., Juenger, T. E., Kardish, M. R., Carlson, A. L., Burns, K. M., Edwards, J. A., ... Des Marais, D. L. (2021). Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants. mSystems. 6(6), Liechty, Z., Santos-Medelln, C., Edwards, J., Nguyen, B., Mikhail, D., Eason, S., Phillips, G., & Sundaresan, V. (2020). Comparative Analysis of Root Microbiomes of Rice Cultivars with High and Low Methane Emissions Reveals Differences in Abundance of Methanogenic Archaea and Putative Upstream Fermenters. mSystems. 5(1), Edwards, J., Santos-Medelln, C., Nguyen, B., Kilmer, J., Liechty, Z., Veliz, E., ... Sundaresan, V. (2019). Soil domestication by rice cultivation results in plant-soil feedback through shifts in soil microbiota. 20(1), Edwards, J., Santos-Medelln, C., & Sundaresan, V. (2018). Extraction and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis of Microbiomes Associated with Rice Roots. Bio-protocol. 8(12), Santos-Medelln, C., Edwards, J., Liechty, Z., Nguyen, B., & Sundaresan, V. (2017). Drought Stress Results in a Compartment-Specific Restructuring of the Rice Root-Associated Microbiomes. mBio. 8(4), Battenberg, K., Wren, J. A., Hillman, J., Edwards, J., Huang, L., & Berry, A. M. (2017). The Influence of the Host Plant Is the Major Ecological Determinant of the Presence of Nitrogen-Fixing Root Nodule Symbiont Cluster II Frankia Species in Soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83(1), Edwards, J., Johnson, C., Santos-Medelln, C., Lurie, E., Podishetty, N. K., Bhatnagar, S., Eisen, J. A., & Sundaresan, V. (2015). Structure, variation, and assembly of the root-associated microbiomes of rice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112(8), Murphy, K. M., Edwards, J., Louie, K. B., Bowen, B. P., Sundaresan, V., Northen, T. R., & Zerbe, P. Bioactive diterpenoids impact the composition of the root-associated microbiome in maize (Zea mays). Scientific Reports. 11(1), Edwards, J. A., Santos-Medelln, C. M., Liechty, Z. S., Nguyen, B., Lurie, E., Eason, S., Phillips, G., & Sundaresan, V. Compositional shifts in root-associated bacterial and archaeal microbiota track the plant life cycle in field-grown rice. PLoS Biology. 16(2), e2003862-e2003862. Liu, X., Weng, X., Edwards, J., Wang, L., Zhang, C., Qiu, J., & Li, Z. Editorial: Adaptive evolution of grasses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. Santos-Medelln, C., Liechty, Z., Edwards, J., Nguyen, B., Huang, B., Weimer, B. C., & Sundaresan, V. Prolonged drought imparts lasting compositional changes to the rice root microbiome. Nature Plants. 7(8), 1065-1077. institutional repository document Edwards, J. A., Saran, U. B., Bonnette, J., MacQueen, A., Yin, J., Nguyen, T. U., ... Juenger, T. E. (2022). Heritability and host genomic determinants of switchgrass root-associated microbiota in field sites spanning its natural range Santos-Medellin, C., Liechty, Z., Edwards, J., Nguyen, B., Huang, B., Weimer, B. C., & Sundaresan, V. (2020). Drought duration determines the recovery dynamics of rice root microbiomes
education and training Ph.D. in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2017 B.S. in Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech - (Blacksburg, Virginia, United States) 2011