Liana Burghardt

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Assistant Professor, Plant Science

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Recent Publications

The evolutionary ecology of rhizobia: multiple facets of competition before, during, and after symbiosis with legumes

Burghardt, L. T. & diCenzo, G. C., Apr 2023, In: Current Opinion in Microbiology. 72, 102281.

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Combining GWAS and population genomic analyses to characterize coevolution in a legume-rhizobia symbiosis

Epstein, B., Burghardt, L. T., Heath, K. D., Grillo, M. A., Kostanecki, A., Hämälä, T., Young, N. D. & Tiffin, P., Jul 2023, In: Molecular ecology. 32, 14, p. 3798-3811 14 p.

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Precipitation timing and soil substrate drive phenology and fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana in a Mediterranean environment

Martínez-Berdeja, A., Okada, M., Cooper, M. D., Runcie, D. E., Burghardt, L. T. & Schmitt, J., Sep 2023, In: Functional Ecology. 37, 9, p. 2471-2487 17 p.

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Phenotypic and genomic signatures of interspecies cooperation and conflict in naturally occurring isolates of a model plant symbiont

Batstone, R. T., Burghardt, L. T. & Heath, K. D., Jul 13 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289, 1978, 20220477.

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Host-Associated Rhizobial Fitness: Dependence on Nitrogen, Density, Community Complexity, and Legume Genotype

Burghardt, L. T., Epstein, B., Hoge, M., Trujillo, D. I. & Tiffin, P., Aug 2022, In: Applied and environmental microbiology. 88, 15

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Comparison of nodule endophyte composition, diversity, and gene content between medicago truncatula genotypes

Burns, M., Epstein, B. & Burghardt, L. T., 2021, In: Phytobiomes Journal. 5, 4, p. 400-407 8 p.

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A select and resequence approach reveals strain-specific effects of medicago nodule-specific PLAT-domain genes

Burghardt, L. T., Trujillo, D. I., Epstein, B., Tiffin, P. & Young, N. D., Jan 2020, In: Plant physiology. 182, 1, p. 463-471 9 p.

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Evolving together, evolving apart: measuring the fitness of rhizobial bacteria in and out of symbiosis with leguminous plants

Burghardt, L. T., Oct 1 2020, In: New Phytologist. 228, 1, p. 28-34 7 p.

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Legacy of prior host and soil selection on rhizobial fitness in planta

Burghardt, L. T., Epstein, B. & Tiffin, P., Sep 1 2019, In: Evolution. 73, 9, p. 2013-2023 11 p.

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Filling in the gaps in survival analysis: using field data to infer plant responses to environmental stressors

Tomasek, B. J., Burghardt, L. T. & Shriver, R. K., Oct 1 2019, In: Ecology. 100, 10, e02778.

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Select and resequence reveals relative fitness of bacteria in symbiotic and free-living environments

Burghardt, L. T., Epstein, B., Guhlin, J., Nelson, M. S., Taylor, M. R., Young, N. D., Sadowsky, M. J. & Tiffin, P., Mar 6 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. 2425-2430 6 p.

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Genome-wide association analyses in the model rhizobium Ensifer meliloti

Epstein, B., Abou-Shanab, R. A. I., Shamseldin, A., Taylor, M. R., Guhlin, J., Burghardt, L. T., Nelson, M., Sadowsky, M. J. & Tiffin, P., Sep 1 2018, In: mSphere. 3, 5, e00386-18.

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A Guide to Genome-Wide Association Mapping in Plants

Burghardt, L. T., Young, N. D. & Tiffin, P., Mar 1 2017, In: Current protocols in plant biology. 2, 1, p. 22-38 17 p.

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Transcriptomic basis of genome by genome variation in a legume-rhizobia mutualism

Burghardt, L. T., Guhlin, J., Chun, C. L., Liu, J., Sadowsky, M. J., Stupar, R. M., Young, N. D. & Tiffin, P., Nov 2017, In: Molecular ecology. 26, 21, p. 6122-6135 14 p.

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Canalization of seasonal phenology in the presence of developmental variation: Seed dormancy cycling in an annual weed

Edwards, B., Burghardt, L. T., Kovach, K. E. & Donohue, K., Nov 1 2017, In: Integrative and comparative biology. 57, 5, p. 1021-1039 19 p.

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