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Last published 2026
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Brett M. Hale

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Graduate Research Assistant

Also affiliated: Arkansas State University System (2024); Corteva (United States) (2021); Arkansas Biosciences Institute (2020–2026)

9 h-index 33 pubs 321 cited

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

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Brett Hale's research interests encompass plant biology, focusing on soybean responses to environmental stressors and disease, as well as investigating microbial communities. Hale has studied the effects of nanoparticle applications, such as zinc oxide and selenium nanoparticles, on mitigating arsenic toxicity in soybean seedlings by regulating photosynthetic and antioxidant pathways. Further work has examined the interplay of these nanoparticles in enhancing arsenic tolerance through gene expression and transporter activity. Hale has also contributed to understanding plant disease resistance, specifically in resolving intergenotypic Striga resistance in sorghum and assessing the soybean– Phytophthora sojae pathosystem. Additionally, Hale has explored methods for analyzing poultry microbiota using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, raising questions about standardization protocols for this research area. Hale's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 10, with 32 total publications and 378 total citations. Hale has collaborated extensively with researchers at Arkansas State University, including Asela Wijeratne (13 shared publications), Emily S. Bellis (5 shared publications), Naina Rao (3 shared publications), and Callie Phipps (3 shared publications).

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 33
  • Citations: 321

Positions

  • Head 2019–present
    AgriGro Research and Development ORCID
  • Graduate Research Assistant publications 2020–2026
    Arkansas State University Listing

Selected Publications

  • Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis Provides Insights into the Rhizosphere Microbial Dynamics in Soybean– Fusarium virguliforme Interaction (2026)
    Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Cell Wall Dynamics in the Parasitic Plant (Striga) 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 9 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
  • Peer Review Report For: Evaluation of cytosine conversion methods for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling [version 1; peer review: 2 not approved] (2023)
  • Peer Review Report For: Evaluation of cytosine conversion methods for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling [version 1; peer review: 2 not approved] (2023)
  • Gene regulatory network inference in soybean upon infection by Phytophthora sojae (2023)
    PLoS ONE 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Transcriptome atlas of Striga germination: Implications for managing an intractable parasitic plant (2023)
    Plants People Planet 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Resolving intergenotypic Striga resistance in sorghum (2023)
    Journal of Experimental Botany 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An updated assessment of the soybean– Phytophthora sojae pathosystem (2023)
    Plant Pathology 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluation of cytosine conversion methods for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling (2022)
    F1000Research DOI OpenAlex
  • Resolving intergenotypic Striga resistance in sorghum (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A transcriptome atlas of Striga hermonthica germination (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Gene regulatory network inference in soybean upon infection by Phytophthora sojae (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex

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