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Last published 2026
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Asela Wijeratne

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Researcher

Also affiliated: College of Wooster (2014); Natural History Museum Vienna (2020); Pennsylvania State University (2006–2014); Agricultural Research Service (2014); Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (2014); Arkansas State University System (2024); Quality Research (2014); Arkansas Biosciences Institute (2020–2026); Walker (United States) (2018–2020); The Ohio State University (2007–2020); University of Memphis (2017–2020)

Faculty Researcher

21 h-index 95 pubs 1,697 cited

  • Animals
  • Arabidopsis
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Transcriptome
  • Glycine max
  • Meiosis
  • Plant Diseases
  • Mites
  • Mutation
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA
  • Genes, Plant
  • Crossing Over, Genetic
  • Microbiota

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Asela Wijeratne's research focuses on understanding gene expression and regulatory networks in response to environmental stressors and pathogen interactions. Her work has investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying plant responses to water deficit in Petunia × hybrida using time-course transcriptomic analysis and RNA sequencing. Additionally, she has examined host-pathogen interactions, specifically in the soybean-Phytophthora sojae pathosystem, by inferring gene regulatory networks.

Her research also extends to the study of parasitic plants and symbiont population structures. Wijeratne has contributed to understanding gene expression during the germination of Striga, a parasitic plant, and has investigated the host specificity and population dynamics of avian feather mites. Her publications include work on resolving intergenotypic resistance in sorghum and assessing the soybean-Phytophthora sojae pathosystem.

Wijeratne holds a high-impact researcher designation, evidenced by her h-index of 21 and over 1,678 citations across 95 publications. She is a Co-PI on an NSF grant totaling $1,999,484, aimed at understanding invasion and disease ecology and evolution through computational data education. She collaborates with several faculty members at Arkansas State University, including Brett Hale, Than J. Boves, Emily S. Bellis, and Andrew D. Sweet, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 21
  • Publications: 95
  • Citations: 1,697

Selected Publications

  • Genome-wide Analysis of Soybean Demethylase Genes (2026)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis Provides Insights into the Rhizosphere Microbial Dynamics in Soybean– <i>Fusarium virguliforme</i> Interaction (2026)
    Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Assessment of rhizosphere microbial activity using optimized RNA extraction coupled with universal ribosomal RNA depletion techniques (2025)
    BMC Methods 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Assessment of rhizosphere microbial activity using optimized RNA extraction coupled with universal ribosomal RNA (rRNA) depletion techniques  (2024)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Cell Wall Dynamics in the Parasitic Plant (<i>Striga</i>) and Rice Pathosystem (2024)
    Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts (2024)
    Journal of Animal Ecology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Unveiling the immune dynamics of Neisseria persistent oral colonization: a roadmap for innovative vaccine strategies (2024)
    The Journal of Immunology DOI OpenAlex
  • Fine-scale characterization of the soybean rhizosphere microbiome via synthetic long reads and avidity sequencing (2024)
    Environmental Microbiome 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Correction: Hale et al. Differential Expression Profiling Reveals Stress-Induced Cell Fate Divergence in Soybean Microspores. Plants 2020, 9, 1510 (2024)
    Plants DOI OpenAlex
  • Unveiling the immune dynamics of <i>Neisseria</i> persistent oral colonization (2024)
    Infection and Immunity 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Unveiling the Immune Dynamics of Neisseria Persistent Oral Colonization: A Roadmap for Innovative Vaccine Strategies (2023)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Population Genomics of Pooled Samples: Unveiling Symbiont Infrapopulation Diversity and Host–Symbiont Coevolution (2023)
    Life 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Novel insights into symbiont population structure: Globe‐trotting avian feather mites contradict the specialist–generalist variation hypothesis (2023)
    Molecular Ecology 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Gene regulatory network inference in soybean upon infection by Phytophthora sojae (2023)
    PLoS ONE 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Transcriptome atlas of <i>Striga</i> germination: Implications for managing an intractable parasitic plant (2023)
    Plants People Planet 8 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $1,999,484 total

NSF Co-PI Jul 2022 - Jun 2027

Understanding Invasion and Disease Ecology and Evolution through Computational Data Education

NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) $1,999,484

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