Alonso Favela

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Assistant Professor - School of Plant Sciences
alonsof@arizona.edu, Marley 322
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Educational Background

  • B.S. University of Arizona, Biology
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
  • USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology, Rules of Life, University of California Irvine

Research Interests

  • Microbial Contributions to Climate Change Resilience and Sustainability
  • Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology of Agroecosystems
  • Microbiome Assembly and Function of the Plant Rhizosphere
  • Ecosystem Cycling of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Water
  • Genomic Biodiversity and Domestication

Selected Publications

Favela, Alonso, Martin O. Bohn, and Angela D. Kent. "Application of plant extended phenotypes to manage the agricultural microbiome belowground." Frontiers in Microbiomes 2 (2023): 1157681.
Favela, Martin O. Bohn, and Angela D. Kent. "N-cycling microbiome recruitment differences between modern and wild Zea mays." Phytobiomes Journal 6.2 (2022): 151-160.
York, Larry M., et al. "Bioenergy Underground: Challenges and opportunities for phenotyping roots and the microbiome for sustainable bioenergy crop production." The Plant Phenome Journal 5.1 (2022): e20028.
Favela, Alonso, Martin O. Bohn, and Angela D. Kent. "Maize germplasm chronosequence shows crop breeding history impacts recruitment of the rhizosphere microbiome." The ISME Journal 15.8 (2021): 2454-2464.

Research Areas

  • Biochemistry and Physiology
  • Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environmental and Stress Biology
  • Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology
  • Microbiology

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