Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Telephone : (865)574-7833
Email : jawdys@ornl.gov
Sara S. Jawdy
Technical Staff
- M.S., Plant Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, 2006
- B.S., Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Research Interests:
- Populus and its potential as a bioenergy feedstock
- Molecular interactions between perennial woody plants and soil microbes
- Plant transcriptomics of P. trichocarpa, P. Hallii and Alamo AP13
- CAM of Agave and related species
Recent Publications:
- Weston DJ, Pelletier DA, Morrell-Falvey JL, Tschaplinski TJ, Jawdy SA, Lu TY, Allen SM, Karve A, Melton SJ, Martin MZ, Schadt CW, Chen JG, Yang X, Doktycz MJ, Tuskan G. 2012. Pseudomonas fluorescens induces strain-dependent and strain-independent host plant responses in defense networks, primary metabolism, photosynthesis and fitness. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 25: 765-778.
- Genetic and physical mappping of Melampsora rust resistance genes in Populus and characterization of linkage disequilibrium and flanking genomic sequence (New Phytology, 2004)
- Leaf dynamics of a deciduous forest canopy: no response to elevated CO2 (Oceologia, 2003)