ARID Center 

Sanyal, D., Dari, B., & Mandal, S. N. (2026). Climate-smart agriculture: Enhancing sustainable crop production in arid and semi-arid environments through conservation of natural resources. Frontiers in Agronomy.

Frost, C. J., Johnson, S. M., Pauli, D., & Melandri, G. (2026). Identification of a volatile chemotype associated with resilience to water stress in domesticated varieties of cotton. BMC Biology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02693-6

Arán, P. S., Oyekanmi, O. J., Spraker, J., & Arnold, A. E. (2026). Draft genome sequences of 12 fungi occurring in cyanobacteria-dominated biotic soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 15(9), e00637-26. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00637-26

Pauli, D., Huppenthal, B., Wang, D., Schnable, J., & Benes, B. (2026). Digital twins for plant and crop improvement. Trends in Plant Science. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.06.005

Yu, L., Melandri, G., Dittrich, A. C. N., Calleja, S., Ganguly, D. R., Palos, K., Brewer, E. K., Fischer, H., Rozzi, B., Srinivasan, A., Obata, T., Elgawad, H. A., Beemster, G. T. S., Henderson, R., Garcia, C. D., Zhang, X., Stern, D., Eveland, A. L., Lyons, E., Arnold, A. E., Skirycz, A., Schroeder, S. J., Gregory, B. D., Pauli, D., & Nelson, A. D. L. (2026). The mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during plant abiotic stress. The Plant Cell, koag196. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag196

Yu, L., Melandri, G., Dittrich, A. C. N., Elgawad, H. A., Beemster, G. T. S., Garcia, C. D., Arnold, A. E., Gregory, B. D., Pauli, D., & Nelson, A. D. L. (2026). Integrated multi-omic analyses uncover a regulatory link between photosynthesis and drought tolerance in field-grown sorghum. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.70649

Legins, J., Pauli, D., & Arnold, A. E. (2026). High-performing upland cotton shifts root-associated microbiomes under water limitation. Discover Plants, 3, 121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44372-026-00575-3

Obih, C. E., Li, J., Melandri, G., Pauli, D., Lyons, E., Nelson, A. D. L., & Gregory, B. D. (2025). HAMRLNC: A comprehensive and scalable pipeline for integrated epitranscriptomic analysis. Academia Molecular Biology and Genomics, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.20935/AcadMolBioGen8059

Berlingeri, J., Fuentes, A., Ranario, E., Yun, H., Rim, E. Y., Garrett, O., Howard, A., LaPorte, M. F., Lo, S., Pauli, D., Hershberger, J., Earles, M., Van Deynze, A., Brummer, E. C., Michelmore, R., Wong, C. Y. S., Magney, T. S., Ronald, P. C., Runcie, D. E., Bailey, B. N., & Diepenbrock, C. H. (2025). Integration of crop modeling and sensing into molecular breeding for nutritional quality and stress tolerance. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 138, 205. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-04984-y

Garcia, G., Pauli, D., Baltrus, D., & Arnold, A. E. (2025). Genomes of three root-associated bacteria isolated from Sorghum bicolor L. Moench under arid-land conditions. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 14, e00401-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00401-25

Demieville, J., Dilkes, B., Eveland, A. L., & Pauli, D. (2025). High-resolution phenomics dataset collected on a field-grown, EMS-mutagenized sorghum population evaluated in hot, arid conditions. BMC Research Notes, 18, 332. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-025-07407-9

Arad, N., Spraker, J., Garcia, K., Pauli, D., & Arnold, A. E. (2025). Draft genome sequences of five endophytic fungi isolated from Lactuca serriola, a wild relative of cultivated lettuce. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 14, e00444-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00444-25

Arad, N., Spraker, J., Garcia, K., Pauli, D., & Arnold, A. E. (2025). Biosynthetic potential of the culturable foliar mycobiome associated with field-grown lettuce. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 109, 197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-025-13581-4

Arnold, A. E., Arad, N., Cortez, E. J., Maro, C. N., Legins, J., Porch, T., & Pauli, D. (2025). Field-grown tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) reveals symbiotic competence under arid-land agriculture conditions. Annual Report of the Bean Improvement Cooperative. In press.

Yu, L., Legins, J., Nelson, A. D. L., Melandri, G., Arnold, A. E., Porch, T., & Pauli, D. (2025). Preliminary characterization and genetic mapping of nutritional compounds in tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius). Annual Report of the Bean Improvement Cooperative. In press.

Arad, N., Pauli, D., Truco, M., Lavelle, D., Michelmore, R., & Arnold, A. E. (2025). Diversity of leaf- and root microbiomes among genotypes and market classes of desert-grown lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). FEMS Microbiology Letters, 372, fnaf121. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaf121

Garcia, G., Pauli, D., & Arnold, A. E. (2025). Untargeted metabolomics unveils an accumulation of flavonoids associated with the microbiome of low-performing sorghum. Discover Plants, 2, 197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44372-025-00273-6

Garcia, C., Pauli, D., Plecki, C., Alnasser, H., Rozzi, B., Calleja, S., & Arnold, A. E. (2024). The root endophytic microbiome shifts under drought in high-performing sorghum. Phytobiomes Journal, 8(3), 282–296. https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-09-23-0095-R

Christenson, C. G., Gohardoust, M. R., Calleja, S., Thorp, K. R., Tuller, M., & Pauli, D. (2024). Monitoring cotton water status with microtensiometers. Irrigation Science, 42(5), 995–1011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-024-00930-w

Gonzalez, E., Zarei, A., Ryngler, D., Calleja, S., Christenson, C., Rozzi, B., Demieville, J., Hu, J., Eveland, A. L., Dilkes, B., Barnard, K., Lyons, E., & Pauli, D. (2024). Quantifying leaf symptoms of sorghum charcoal rot in images of field-grown plants using deep neural networks. The Plant Phenome Journal, 7(1), e20110. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.20110

Yu, L., Nelson Dittrich, A. C., Zhang, X., Brock, J. R., Thirumalaikumar, V. P., Melandri, G., Skirycz, A., Edger, P. P., Thorp, K. R., Hinze, L., Pauli, D., & Nelson, A. D. L. (2024). Regulation of a single inositol 1-phosphate synthase homeologue by HSFA6B contributes to fibre yield maintenance under drought conditions in upland cotton. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 22(10), 2756–2772. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14402