Refereed Publications (Google scholar) (*, Liao as the senior author)
2023
Erhunmwunse AS, Queiroz LMD, Zhang K, Mackowiak CL, Blount ARS, Dubeux JCB, Liao H-L*. 2023. Changes in soil microbial diversity and community composition across bahiagrass and rhizome peanut pastures. Biology and Fertility of Soils. doi.org/10.1007/s00374-023-01701-z
Guo Y, Liao H-L, Boughton EH, Martens-Habbena W, Qiu J. 2023. Interactive effects of land-use intensity, grazing and fire disturbances on soil bacterial and fungal communities in subtropical wetlands. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment. 345:108314. doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108314
Ke Y-H, Branco S, Bazzicalupo A, Nguyen NH, Liao H-L, Kennedy P, Bruns T, Kuo A, LaButti K, Kerrie B, Grigoriev I, Vilgalys R. 2023. Genomic determination of breeding systems and trans-specific evolution of HD MAT genes in suilloid fungi. Genetics. 224(2). doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyad069
Zhang K, Rodolfo Zentella R, Burkey K, Liao H-L*, Tisdale R. 2023. Microbial community dynamics responding to nutrient allocation associated with soybean cultivar ‘Jake’ ozone adaptation, Science of the Total Environment. 864:161008. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161008
Guo Y, Boughton EH, Liao H-L, Sonnier G, Qiu J. 2023. Direct and indirect pathways of land management effects on wetland plant litter decomposition. Science of the Total Environment. 854:158789. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158789
Garzon JE, Vendramini JMB, Silveira ML, Sollenberger LE, Dubeux JCB, Liao H-L, da Silva HMS, Gomes VC, Oliveira HMR. 2023. Overseeding aeschynomene and N fertilization effects on forage characteristics, N fixation and N2O emissions of bahiagrass pastures. Crop Science. doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20981
2022
Zhang K, Maltais-Landry G, James M, Mendez V, Wright D, George S, Liao H-L*. 2022. Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation. Biology and Fertility of Soils. Doi.org/10.1007/s00374-022-01675-4
Chen K-H, Marcon F, Duringer J, Blount A, Mackowiak C, Liao H-L*. 2022. Leaf mycobiome and mycotoxin profile of warm-season grasses structured by plant species, geography and apparent black-stromata fungal structure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Doi:10.1128/aem.00942-22
Branco S, A Schauster, Liao H-L, Ruytinx J. 2022. Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal partners. New Phytologist. (Review article; Manuscript ID: NPH-TR-2021-38570, accepted)
Zhang K, Maltais-Landry G, George S, Grabau Z, Small I, Wright D, Liao H-L*. 2022. Long-term sod-based rotation promotes beneficial root microbiomes and increases crop productivity. Biology and Fertility of Soils. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-022-01626-z
Chen K-H, Liao H-L, Arnold AE, Korotkin H; Wu S, Matheny PB, Lutzoni F. 2022. Comparative transcriptomics of fungal endophytes in co-culture with their moss host Dicranum scoparium reveals fungal trophic lability and moss unchanged to slightly increased growth rates. New Phytologist (Accepted) doi: 10.1111/nph.18078
Tigrero-Vaca J, Maridueña-Zavala MG, Liao H-L, Prado-Lince M, Zambrano-Vera CS, Monserrate-Maggi B, Cevallos-Cevallos JM. 2022. Microbial diversity and contribution to the formation of volatile compounds during fine-flavor cacao bean fermentation. Foods. 11(7), 915. doi.org/10.3390/foods11070915
Garzon Alfonso JE, Vendramini JMB, Silveira ML, Dubeux, JC, Sollenberger LE, Liao H-L, Moriel P, Silva HMS, Gomes VC, Ferreira IM, Alencar NM. 2022. Residue management and genotype effects on sunn hemp organic matter and nitrogen decomposition. Agronomy. DOI: 10.1002/agj2.21193
Schumacher LA, Grabau ZJ, Wright DL, Small IM, Liao H-L. 2022. Effects of a perennial grass-based crop rotation system, nematicide, and irrigation on nematode community structure in cotton. Journal of Nematology. 54: doi.org/10.2478/jofnem-2022-0046
2021
Liao H-L, Bonito G, Hameed K, Wu S, Ko-Hsuan Chen K-H, Labbé J, Schadt CW, Tuskan GA, Martin F, Kuo A, Barry K, Grigoriev I, Vilgalys R. 2021. Heterospecific neighbor plants impact root microbiome diversity and molecular function of root fungi. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12:3355. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.680267
Erlandson S, Margis R, Ramirez A, Nguyen N, Lofgren L, Liao H-L, Vilgalys R, Kennedy P, Peay K. 2021. Transcriptional acclimation and spatial differentiation characterize drought response by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus pungens. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17816 (Letter)
Zhang K, Tappero R, Ruytinx J, Branco S, Liao H-L*. Disentangling the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in plant nutrient acquisition along a Zn gradient using in-situ X-ray imaging. Science of the Total Environment. 801:149481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149481 (Short Communication)
Guerra V, Beule L, Liao H-L*, Dubeux J, Blount A, Rowland D, Wang X-B, Mackowiak C. 2021. Soil Bacterial community response to rhizoma peanut incorporation into Florida pastures. J Environmental Qual. doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20307 (Technical Report)
Zhang K, Schumacher L, Maltais-Landry G, Grabau Z, George S, Wright D, Small I, Liao H-L*. 2021. Integrating perennial bahiagrass into the conventional rotation of cotton and peanut enhances interactions between microbial and nematode communities. Applied Soil Ecology. 170:104254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104254
Zhang K, Maltais-Landry G, Liao H-L*. 2021. How biota regulates carbon cycling underlying crop rotations. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 156:108219. doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108219 (Review Article)
Chen K-H, Longley R, Bonito G, Liao H-L*. 2021. A two-step PCR protocol enabling flexible primer choice and high sequencing yield for Illumina MiSeq meta-barcoding. Agronomy 2021, 11, 1274. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071274 (Technical Note)
Lofgren L, Nguyen N, Vilgalys R, Ruytinx J, Liao H-L, Branco S, Kuo A, LaButti K, Lipzen A, Andreopoulos W, Pangilinan J, Riley R, Hundley H, Na H, Barry K, Grigoriev I, Stajich J, Kennedy P. 2021. Comparative genomics reveals dynamic genome evolution in host specialist ectomycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17160
Zhang K, Maltais-Landry G, George S, Grabau Z, Small I, Wright D, Liao H-L*. 2021. Long-term sod-based rotation promotes beneficial root microbiomes and increases crop productivity. Biology and Fertility of Soils. (Manuscript ID: BFSO-D-21-00560, in review)
2020
Schumacher LA, Grabau Z, Wright DL, Small IM, Liao H-L. Nematicide influence on cotton yield and plant-parasitic nematodes in conventional and sod-based crop rotation. Journal of Nematology. 52:1-14. doi:10.21307/jofnem-2020-034.
Zhang K, Bonito G, Hsu C-M, Hameed K, Vilgalys R, Liao H-L*. 2020. Mortierella elongate increases plant biomass among non-leguminous crop species. Agronomy. (Brief Report). 10:754. Doi:10.3390/agronomy10050754.
Guerra V, Beule L, Lehtsaar E, Liao H-L, Karlovsky P. 2020. Improved protocol for DNA extraction from subsoils using phosphate lysis buffer. Microorganisms. 8(4):532 doing:10.3390/microorganisms8040532.
Hoeksema J, Averill C, Bhatnagar JM, Brzostek E, Buscardo E, Chen K-H, Liao H-L, Nagy L, Policelli N, Ridgeway J, Rojas JA, Vilgalys R. 2020. Ectomycorrhizal plant-fungal co-invasions as natural experiments for connecting plant and fungal traits to their ecosystem consequences (review article). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, section Forest Soils. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00084
2019
Chen K-H, Blount A, Justesen B, Walter, JH, Wallau M, Liao H-L*. 2019. First report of the association of Myriogenospora atramentosa with the Plant Genus Hemarthria. Plant Health Progress. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-07-19-0043-BR (Brief Report)
Veličković D, Liao H-L, Vilgalys R, Chu R, Anderton C. 2019. Spatiotemporal transformation in the alkaloid profile of Pinus roots in response to mycorrhization. Journal of Natural Products 82(5): 1382-1386. DOI:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b01050
Beule L, Chen K-H, Hsu C-M, Mackowiak C, Dubeux JCB, Blount A, Liao H-L*. 2019. Soil bacterial and fungal communities of six bahiagrass cultivars. Peer J. 29 (7):e7014. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7014 download
Wang X-B, Hsu C-M, Bubeux Jr JCB, Han X-G, Liao H-L*. 2019. Effects of rhizome peanut cultivars (Arachis glabrata Benth.) on the soil bacterial diversity and predicted function in nitrogen fixation. Ecology and Evolution. 9(22):12676-12687. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5735
Liao H-L, Bonito G, Rojas A, Hameed K, Wu S, Schadt C, Labbe J, Tuskan G, Martin F, Grigoriev I, Vilgalys R. 2019. Metatranscriptomics reveals contrasting functions of fungal root endophytes in the rhizobiome of Populus trichocarpa. MPMI. 32(7):853-864. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-18-0133-R.
Chen K-H, Liao H-L, Bellenger J-P, Lutzoni F. 2019. Differential gene expression associated with fungal trophic shifts along the senescence gradient of the moss Dicranum scoparium. Environmental Microbiology. 21(7), 2273-2289. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14605 download
2018
Chen K-H, Liao H-L, Arnold AE, Bonito G, Lutzoni F. 2018. RNA-based analyses reveal fungal communities structured by a senescence gradient in the moss Dicranum scoparium and the presence of putative multi-trophic fungi. New Phytologist 218: 1597–1611doi: 10.1111/nph.15092
Gryganskyi AP, Golan J, Dolatabadi S, Mondo S, Robb S, Idnurm A, Muszewska A, Steczkiewicz K, Masonjones S, Liao H-L, Gajdeczka MT, Anike F, Vuek A, Anishchenko IM, Voigt K, de Hoog GS, Smith ME, Heitman J, Vilgalys R, Stajich JE. 2018. Phylogenetic and Phylogenomic Definition of Rhizopus G3. 8:2007–2018. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200235
2017
Bonito G, Hameed K, Toome M, Healy R, Reid C, Liao H-L, Cathie Aime C, Schadt C, Vilgalys R. 2017. Atractiella rhizophilia, sp. nov., an endorrhizal fungus isolated from the populus root microbiome. Mycologia page 1-
Rosenthal LM, Larsson K-H, Branco S, Chung JA, Glassman SI, Liao H-L, Peay KG, Smith DP, Talbot JM, Taylor JW, Vilgalys R, Bruns TD. 2017. Survey of corticioid fungi in North American pinaceous forests reveals hyperdiversity, underpopulated sequence databases and species that are potentially ectomycorrhizal. Mycologia ISSN: 0027-5514 (Print) 1557-2536 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/umyc20
Branco S, Bi K, Liao H-L, Gladieux P, Badouin H, Ellison CE, Nguyen N, Vilgalys R, Peay KG, Taylor, JW, Bruns TD. 2017. Continental-level population differentiation and environmental adaptation in the mushroom Suillus brevipes. Molecular Ecology 26:2063-2076.
2016
Liao H-L, Chen Y, Vilgalys R. 2016. Metatranscriptomic Study of Common and Host-Specific Patterns of Gene Expression between Pines and Their Symbiotic Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in the Genus Suillus. PLoS Genet 12(10): e1006348. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006348 download
2015
Branco S, Gladieux P, Ellison CE, Kuo A, LaButii K, Lipzen A, Grigoriev IV, Liao H-L, Vilgalys R, Peay KG, Taylor JW, Bruns TD. 2015. Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. Mol. Ecol. 24:2747-2758.
2014
Liao H-L, Chen Y, Bruns TD, Peay KG, Taylor JW. Branco S, Talbot JM, Vilgalys R. 2014. Metatranscriptomic analysis of ectomycorrhizal roots reveal genes associated with Piloderma-Pinus symbiosis: Improved methodologies for assessing gene expression in situ. Environ. Microbiol. 16:3730-3742.download
Talbot JM, Bruns TD, Taylor J, Smith DP, Branco S, Glassman SI, Erlandson S, Vilgalys R, Liao H-L, Smith M, Peay KG. 2014. Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome. PNAS 111:6341-6346.
2013 and before
Liao H-L, Alferez F, Burns JK. 2013. Assessment of blue light treatments on citrus postharvest diseases. Postharvest Biol. Tech. 81:81-88.
Bai J, Baldwin E, Liao H-L, Kostenyuk I, Burns JK, Irey M. 2013. Extraction of DNA from orange juice, and detection of bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus by real-time PCR. J. Agric. Food Chem. 61:9339-9346.
Liao H-L, Burns JK. 2012. Gene expression in Citrus sinensis fruit tissues harvested from huanglongbing-infected trees: comparison with girdled fruit. J. Expt. Bot. 63: 3307-3319.
Alferez F, Liao H-L, Burns JK. 2012b. Blue light alters infection by Penicillium digitatum in tangerines. Postharvest Biol. Tech. 63: 11-15.
Liao H-L, Burns JK. 2010. Light controls phospholipaseA2α and β gene expression in Citrus sinensis. J. Expt. Bot. 61: 2469-2478.
Wang L-Y, Liao H-L, Bau, H-J, Chung K-R. 2009. Characterization of pathogenic variants of Elsinoë fawcettii of citrus implies the presence of new pathotypes and cryptic species in Florida. Canadian J. Plant Pathol. 31: 28-37.
Wang L-Y, Bau H-J, Liao H-L, Chung K-R. 2009. Factors affecting the production of elsinochrome phytotoxin by the citrus scab pathogen, Elsinoë fawcettii. Open Mycol. J. 3: 1-8.
Liao H-L, Chung K-R. 2008. Cellular toxicity of elsinochromes phytotoxins produced by the pathogenic fungus, Elsinoë fawcettii causing citrus scab. New Phytologist 117: 239-250.
Liao H-L, Chung K-R. 2008. Genetic dissection defines the roles of elsinochromes phytotoxin for fungal pathogenesis and conidiation of the citrus pathogen Elsinoë fawcettii. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 21: 469-479.
Chung K-R, Liao H-L. 2008. Determination of a transcriptional regulator-like gene involved in biosynthesis of elsinochromes phytotoxin by the citrus scab fungus, Elsinoë fawcettii. Microbiol. 154: 3556-3566.
Dekkers KL, You B-J, Chen H, Gowda VS, Liao H-L, M-H, Ueng PP, Chung K-R. 2007. The Cercospora nicotianae gene encoding dual O-methyltransferase and FAD-dependent monooxygenase domains mediates cercosporin biosynthesis. Fungal Genet. Biol. 44: 444-454.
Non-refereed Publications
Alferez, F., Liao, H.-L. and Burns, J. K. 2012. Light from different wavelengths affects expression of genes encoding phospholipases A2 and D in peel from mandarins at different maturation stage during postharvest storage. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 956:629-634.
Liao, H.-L., Chen, H., and Chung, K.-R. 2006. Plant hormone inhibitors for reducing postbloom fruit drop (PFD) of citrus. Proc. Fla. State. Hort. Soc. 119:78-81.
Liao, H.-L., Huang, T. C., and Chen, C.-Y. 2001. Characteristics of rose and aster strains of Agrobacterium in Taiwan. Plant Pathol. Bull. 10: 27-36.
Chen, C.-Y., Liao, H.-L., and Chung, J. C. 1999. Amplification of virD1 and opine synthase genes from tumorigenic rose and aster strains of Agrobacterium in Taiwan by polymerase chain reaction. Plant Pathol. Bull. 8: 143-148.2019.