Publications

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Lafferty, D.J., T.A. Robison, A. Gunadi, P.W. Schafran, L.H. Gunn, J. Van Eck and F.-W. Li. 2024. Biolistics-mediated transformation of hornworts and its application to study pyrenoid protein localization. Journal of Experimental Biology erae243. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae243

Lane, C., Y. Al Shoffe, P. Schafran, F.-W. Li, J. Kao-Kniffin, C.B. Watkins. 2024. Amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics reveal functional impacts of aminoethoxyvinylglycine-mediated ripening and cold storage on the microbiome of 'NY1' apples. Postharvest Biology and Technology 213: 112969. doi: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2024.112969

Hisanaga, T., S. Wu, P.W. Schafran, E. Axelsson, S. Akimcheva, L. Dolan, F.-W. Li and F. Berger. 2023. The ancestral chromatin landscape of land plants. New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.19311

Schafran, P.W., F.-W. Li and C.J. Rothfels. 2023. PURC Provides Improved Sequence Inference for Polyploid Phylogenetics and Other Manifestations of the Multiple-Copy Problem. In: Van de Peer, Y. (eds) Polyploidy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2545. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2561-3_10 | PDF

Chatterjee, P., P.W. Schafran, F.-W. Li and J.C. Meeks. 2022. Nostoc Talks Back: Temporal Patterns of Differential Gene Expression During Establishment of Anthoceros-Nostoc Symbiosis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 35(10): 917-932. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-05-22-0101-R

Marchant, D.B., G. Chen, S. Cai, F. Chen, P.W. Schafran, et al. 2022. Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern. Nature Plants. doi: 10.1038/s41477-022-01226-7. | PDF

Suissa, J.S., S.P. Kinosian, P.W. Schafran, J.F. Bolin, W. Carl Taylor, and E.A. Zimmer. 2021. Homoploid hybrids, allopolyploids, and high ploidy levels characterize the evolutionary history of a western North American quillwort (Isoëtes) complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: 107332. | PDF | Supplementary Files (in zip archive)

Musselman, L.J. and P.W. Schafran. 2021. Edible Wild Plants of the Carolinas: a Forager's Companion. UNC Press, Chapel Hill, NC.

Schafran, P.W. 2019. Molecular Systematics of Isoetes (Isoetaceae) in eastern North America. PhD dissertation. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. | PDF

Schafran, P.W., Zimmer, E.A., Taylor, W.C., and L.J. Musselman. 2018. A whole chloroplast genome phylogeny of diploid species of Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae, Lycopodiophyta) in the southeastern United States. Castanea 83(2): 224-235. | PDF | Supplement

Bray, R.D., Schafran, P.W., and L. J. Musselman. 2018. Interesting, provocative, and enigmatic: morphological observations on southeastern quillworts (Isoetes, Isoetaceae, Lycopodophyta). Castanea 83(2): 263-269. | PDF

Schafran, P.W., Johnson, G., Taylor, W.C., Zimmer, E.A., and L.J. Musselman. 2018. Low-copy nuclear markers in Isoëtes L. (Isoëtaceae, Lycopodiophyta) identified with transcriptomes. Applications in Plant Sciences 6(4): e1142. | PDF

Bolin, J.F., Hartwig, C.L., Schafran, P.W. and S. Komarnytsky. 2018. Application of DNA flow cytometry to aid species delimitation in Isoetes. Castanea 83(1): 38-47. | PDF

Schafran, P.W., Leonard, S., Bray, R.D., Taylor, W.C., and L.J Musselman. 2016. Isoëtes mississippiensis: A new quillwort from Mississippi, USA. Phytokeys 74: 97-106. | PDF

Pre-Prints

Schafran, P.W., V. Cai, H.-P. Yang, and F.-W. Li. 2020. Metagenomic characterization of a harmful algal bloom using nanopore sequencing

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