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Last published 2026
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Brett Hale

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Graduate Research Assistant

Also affiliated: National Agrarian University (2025–2026); University of San Diego (1989); Arkansas State University System (2024); University of California San Diego (1989); Don State Agrarian University (2025–2026); Corteva (United States) (2021); Arkansas Biosciences Institute (2020–2026)

Graduate Student Researcher

10 h-index 30 pubs 369 cited

  • Glycine max
  • Striga
  • Plant Diseases
  • Bacteria
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • Zinc Oxide
  • Plant Roots
  • Nanoparticles
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
  • Chickens
  • Poultry
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sorghum
  • Humans
  • Phytophthora

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Brett Hale's research investigates plant stress responses and tolerance, particularly in soybean and sorghum. His work has focused on understanding how nanoparticles, such as zinc oxide and selenium nanoparticles, can mitigate arsenic toxicity in soybean seedlings by regulating photosynthetic indexes and antioxidant levels. Hale has also studied the genetic regulation of arsenic tolerance in soybean and explored gene regulatory networks involved in the interaction between soybean and *Phytophthora sojae*. In parallel, his research has examined *Striga* germination and resistance in sorghum, aiming to develop strategies for managing this parasitic plant. Additionally, Hale has contributed to research on the gastrointestinal microbiome in poultry, assessing the standardization of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing protocols for microbiota research.

Metrics

  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 30
  • Citations: 369

Selected Publications

  • 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
  • Cell Wall Dynamics in the Parasitic Plant (<i>Striga</i>) and Rice Pathosystem (2024)
    Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 3 citations 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
  • Correction to: Soybean androgenesis II: non-gametophytic morphologies in isolated microspore culture (2024)
    In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant 1 citation 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
  • Resolving intergenotypic <i>Striga</i> resistance in sorghum (2023)
    Journal of Experimental Botany 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An updated assessment of the soybean– <i>Phytophthora sojae</i> pathosystem (2023)
    Plant Pathology 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluation of cytosine conversion methods for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling (2022)
    F1000Research DOI OpenAlex
  • Resolving intergenotypic <i>Striga</i> resistance in sorghum (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A transcriptome atlas of <i>Striga hermonthica</i> germination (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Gene regulatory network inference in soybean upon infection by <i>Phytophthora sojae</i> (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Androgenesis-Based Doubled Haploidy: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives (2022)
    Frontiers in Plant Science 49 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Interplay of ZnONPs and/or SeNPs induces arsenic tolerance in soybean by regulation of antioxidants pool, WRKY genes, and expression of arsenic transporters (2022)
    Environmental and Experimental Botany 32 citations DOI OpenAlex

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