Colleen Doherty

Bio

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

• Assessing the effect of spaceflight stress on DNA sequence mutation using RNA-sequencing data , (2025)
• Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for space exploration and planetary sustainability , (2025)
• Nondestructive Detection and Quantification of Dysprosium in Plant Tissues , (2025)
• Physiological and molecular responses to high-temperature stress at anthesis in Brazilian flooded rice , AOB PLANTS (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 , 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)
• Conserved plant transcriptional responses to microgravity from two consecutive spaceflight experiments , FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2024)
• Flexible Self-Powered Organic Photodetector with High Detectivity for Continuous On-Plant Sensing , ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS (2024)
• Mitigating Illumination-, Leaf-, and View-Angle Dependencies in Hyperspectral Imaging Using Polarimetry , Plant Phenomics (2024)