Publications

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Selected Publications

Whitaker BK, Heiniger RW, Hawkes CV (2026) Crop performance traits predict the phyllosphere mycobiome. Fungal Ecology doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2026.10153

Allen XJ, Cowger C, Brown-Guedira G, Hawkes CV (2026) Mycobiome simplification in wheat is associated with the pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.70485

Broderick CM, Benucci GMN, Bachega LR, Miller GD, Evans SE, Hawkes CV (2025) Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits. ISME J doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf005

Parnell JJ, Pal G, Awan A, Simina V, Houdinet G, Hawkes CV, Balint-Kurti P, Wagner WR, Kleiner M (2024) Effective seed sterilization methods require optimization across maize genotypes. Phytobiomes doi: 10.1094/PBIOMES-12-23-0137-R

Lennon JT, Abramoff RZ, Allison SD, Burckhardt RM, DeAngelis KM, Dunne JP, Frey SD, Friedlingstein P, Hawkes CV, Hungate BA, Khurana S, Kivlin SN, Levine NM, Manzoni S, Martiny AC, Martiny JBH, Nguyen NK, Rawat M, Todd-Brown K, Vogt M, Wieder WR, Zakem EJ (2024) Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction. mBio doi: 10.1128/mbio.00455-24

Hawkes CV, Allen X, Balint-Kurti P, Cowger C (2023) Manipulating the plant mycobiome to enhance resilience: ecological and evolutionary opportunities and challenges. PLoS Pathogens doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011816

Dutta S, Houdinet G, Nanda Kafle G, Kafle A, Hawkes CV, Garcia K (2023) Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Nigrospora sp. isolated from switchgrass leaves and antagonistic toward plant pathogens. Journal of Microbiological Methods doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2023.106849

Whitaker BK, Heiniger RW, Hawkes CV (2023) Foliar fungal communities in agroecosystems depend on crop identity and neighboring vegetation. Frontiers in Microbiomes doi: 10.3389/frmbi.2023.1216462

Aimone CD, Giauque H, Hawkes CV (2023) Fungal symbionts generate water-saver and water-spender plant drought strategies via diverse effects on host gene expression. Phytobiomes Journal doi: 10.1094/PBIOMES-01-22-0006-FI Editor’s Pick Aug 2023

deVries F, Lau J, Hawkes CV, Semchenko M (2023) Plant-soil feedback under drought: does history shape the future? Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.03.001

Heckman RW, Rueda A, Bonnette JE, Aspinwall MJ, Khasinova A, Hawkes CV, Juenger TE, Fay PA (2023) Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum. Oecologia doi: 10.1007/s00442-022-05281-x

Evans S, Allison S, Hawkes CV (2022) Microbes, memory, and moisture: predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14034

Sandy MS, Bui T, Segura-Aba K, Ruiz N, Paszalek J, Connor EW, Hawkes CV (2022) Plant host traits mediated by foliar fungal endophytes and secondary metabolites. Microbial Ecology doi: 10.1007/s00248-022-02057-x

Whitaker B, Giauque H, Timmerman C, Birk N, Hawkes CV (2022) Local plants, not soils, are the primary source of foliar fungal community assembly in a C4 grass. Microbial Ecology doi: 10.1007/s00248-021-01836-2

Hawkes CV, Kjøller R, Raaijmakers JM, Riber L, Christensen S, Rasmussen S, Christensen JH, Dahl AB, Westergaard JC, Nielsen M, Brown-Guedira G, Hansen LH (2021) Extension of plant phenotypes by the foliar microbiome. Annual Review Plant Biology doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-080620-114342

Zhalnina K, Hawkes CV, Shade A, Firestone M, Pett-Ridge J (2021) Managing plant microbiomes for sustainable biofuel production. Phytobiomes J doi: 10.1094/PBIOMES-12-20-0090-E

Lee MR, Hawkes CV (2021) Widespread co-occurrence of Sebacinales and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in switchgrass roots and soils has limited dependence on soil carbon or nutrients. Plants, People, Planet doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10181

Leizeaga A, Hicks LC, Manoharan L, Hawkes CV, Rousk J (2021) Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savanna-grassland precipitation gradient. J Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13550

Lee MR, Hawkes CV (2020) Plant and soil drivers of whole-plant microbiomes: variation in switchgrass fungi from coastal to mountain sites. Phytobiomes J doi: 10.1094/PBIOMES-07-20-0056-FI

Kiniry JR, ArthurU C, BanickU K, Fritschi F, Wu Y, Hawkes CV (2020) Effects of plant-soil feedback on switchgrass productivity related to microbial origin. Agronomy  doi: 10.3390/agronomy10121860

Crawford KM, Hawkes CV (2020) Soil precipitation legacies influence intraspecific plant-soil feedback. Ecology doi: 10.1002/ecy.3142

Hawkes CV, Bull JJ, Lau JA (2020) Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0590

Hawkes CV, Shinada M, Kivlin SN (2020) Historical climate legacies on soil respiration persist despite extreme changes in rainfall. Soil Biology and Biochemistry doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107752 Editor’s Choice May 2020

Kivlin SN, Hawkes CV (2020) Spatial and temporal turnover of soil microbial communities is not linked to function in a primary tropical forest. Ecology doi: 10.1002/ecy.2985

Giauque H, Connor EW, Hawkes CV (2019) Endophyte traits relevant to stress tolerance, resource use, and habitat of origin predict effects on host plants. New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/nph.15504

Connor EW, Hawkes CV (2018) Effects of extreme changes in precipitation on the physiology of C4 grasses. Oecologia doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4212-5

Waring B, Hawkes CV (2018) Ecological mechanisms underlying soil bacterial responses to rainfall along a steep natural precipitation gradient. FEMS Microbiology Ecology doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy001

Hawkes CV, Kiniry JR (2018) Legacies in switchgrass resistance and resilience to drought suggest that good years can sustain plants through bad years. BioEnergy Research doi: 10.1007/s12155-017-9879-7

Bailey VL, Bond-Lamberty B, DeAngelis K, Grandy AS, Hawkes CV, Heckman K, Lajtha K, Phillips R, Sulman BN, Todd-Brown KEO, Wallenstein MD (2018) Soil carbon cycling proxies: understanding their critical role in predicting climate change feedbacks. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.13926

Hawkes CV, Connor EW (2017) Translating phytobiomes from theory to practice: ecological and evolutionary considerations. Phytobiomes J doi: 10.1094/PBIOMES-05-17-0019-RVW

Hawkes CV, Waring B, Rocca JD, Kivlin SN (2017) Historical climate controls soil respiration responses to current moisture. Proceedings National Academy Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1620811114

Connor EW, Sandy M, Hawkes CV (2017) Microbial tools in agriculture require an ecological context: stress-dependent non-additive symbiont interactions. Agronomy J doi: 10.2134/agronj2016.10.0568

Averill C, Waring B, Hawkes CV (2016) Historical precipitation predictably alters the shape and magnitude of functional responses to soil moisture. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.13219

Giauque H, Hawkes CV (2016) Historical and current climate drive spatial and temporal variation in patterns of fungal endophyte diversity. Fungal Ecology doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2015.12.00

Hawkes CV, Keitt TH (2015) Resilience vs. historical contingency in microbial responses to climate change. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.12451