Colleen Doherty

Area(s) of Expertise

The Doherty Lab investigates the connections between time and stress in plants. We have two major research objectives. The first is to use time as a tool to interrogate the signaling networks that allow a plant to perceive and respond to a stress. Secondly, we are interested in understanding how changes in temporal patterns (earlier springs, warmer nights) affect the productivity of crop species.

Publications

• Detection and Quantification of Dysprosium in Plant Tissues , Plant Direct (2026)
• Practical RNA-Seq with Spike-Ins: A Bench-to-Bioinformatics Guide , Methods in molecular biology (2026)
• Assessing the effect of spaceflight stress on DNA sequence mutation using RNA-sequencing data , Gravitational and Space Research (2025)
• Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for space exploration and planetary sustainability , New Phytologist (2025)
• Nondestructive Detection and Quantification of Dysprosium in Plant Tissues , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)
• Physiological and molecular responses to high-temperature stress at anthesis in Brazilian flooded rice , AoB Plants (2025)
• Plant’s developmental decision to either abort a flower or set seed , Trends in Plant Science (2025)
• Transcriptomic analysis reveals time-of-day-specific genes and gene regulatory networks in response to chilling stress in sorghum , Plant Physiology Reports (2025)
• A normalization method that controls for total RNA abundance affects the identification of differentially expressed genes, revealing bias toward morning‐expressed responses , The Plant Journal (2024)
• An Arabidopsis Cell Culture With Weak Circadian Rhythms Under Constant Light Compared With Constant Dark Can Be Rescued by ELF3 , Plant Direct (2024)