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Loren Rieseberg
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Latest papers
PLANeT: Understanding and leveraging the genome of land plants for a sustainable future.
Cell · 2026
Editorial 2026.
Molecular ecology · 2026 · first author
Mini Reviews: A new manuscript category for summarizing emerging topics.
Molecular ecology · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $2,997,935
Canadian organic vegetable improvement: integrating genomics, ecophysiology, and farmer participation for more climate-resilient vegetable production
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $500,000
HelEx: Use of extremophile Helianthus species to mitigate climate change impact on feedstock and ecosystem services provided by sunflower
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $285,000
Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Adaptation and Speciation
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
PLANeT: Understanding and leveraging the genome of land plants for a sustainable future.
Wang L, Amar M, Arbizu CI, Bowman JL, Cannon CH, Cantrill DJ, Cao X, Chen S, Chen X, Chen X, Chong K, Deng X, Weinan E, Guo H, He C, Hollingsworth P, Hu Q, Kong H, Leitch IJ, Li D, Li J, Liu H, Lucas W, Mizrachi E, Rakotoarinivo M, Ren H, Rieseberg L, Ruan J, Scherson R, Schneider H, Soltis DE, Sun H, Silva-Filho MC, Smith S, Twyford A, Usadel B, Van de Peer Y, Van den Berg C, Varshney RK, Viccini LF, Wang Q, Wang XQ, Wang Y, Wendel J, Wing R, Wong GK, Xing Y, Xu X, Yan N, Yang H, Zhang S, Zhu Y, Soltis PS, Weigel D, Huang S
Editorial 2026.
Rieseberg L, Sibbett B, Freeland J, Rivera-Colón AG
Mini Reviews: A new manuscript category for summarizing emerging topics.
Freeland J, Sibbett B, Rieseberg L
Editorial 2024.
Rieseberg L, Warschefsky E, Burton J, Huang K, Sibbett B
Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code.
Jenkins GB, Beckerman AP, Bellard C, Benítez-López A, Ellison AM, Foote CG, Hufton AL, Lashley MA, Lortie CJ, Ma Z, Moore AJ, Narum SR, Nilsson J, O'Boyle B, Provete DB, Razgour O, Rieseberg L, Riginos C, Santini L, Sibbett B, Peres-Neto PR
Genome-Wide Association Mapping in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) Reveals Common Loci and Putative Candidate Genes for Resistance to Diaporthe gulyae and D. helianthi Causing Phomopsis Stem Canker.
Guidini R, Jahani M, Huang K, Rieseberg L, Mathew FM
The EICAT+ framework enables classification of positive impacts of alien taxa on native biodiversity.
Vimercati G, Probert AF, Volery L, Bernardo-Madrid R, Bertolino S, Céspedes V, Essl F, Evans T, Gallardo B, Gallien L, González-Moreno P, Grange MC, Hui C, Jeschke JM, Katsanevakis S, Kühn I, Kumschick S, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Rieseberg L, Robinson TB, Saul WC, Sorte CJB, Vilà M, Wilson JRU, Bacher S
Quantitative trait loci mapping reveals an oligogenic architecture of a rapidly adapting trait during the European invasion of common ragweed.
Prapas D, Scalone R, Lee J, Nurkowski KA, Bou-Assi S, Rieseberg L, Battlay P, Hodgins KA
Editorial 2022.
Rieseberg L, Warschefsky E, O'Boyle B, Taberlet P, Ortiz-Barrientos D, Kane NC, Sibbett B
The genome of Draba nivalis shows signatures of adaptation to the extreme environmental stresses of the Arctic.
Nowak MD, Birkeland S, Mandáková T, Roy Choudhury R, Guo X, Gustafsson ALS, Gizaw A, Schrøder-Nielsen A, Fracassetti M, Brysting AK, Rieseberg L, Slotte T, Parisod C, Lysak MA, Brochmann C
Canadian organic vegetable improvement: integrating genomics, ecophysiology, and farmer participation for more climate-resilient vegetable production
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Keywords: Agriculture and primary food production; Agriculture
HelEx: Use of extremophile Helianthus species to mitigate climate change impact on feedstock and ecosystem services provided by sunflower
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Keywords: drought and heat adaptation; extremophile sunflowers; climate change impacts; genetics and genomics; sunflower breeding; pollinator visitation; genetic diversity
Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Adaptation and Speciation
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Keywords: genetics of adaptation; genetics of speciation; gene flow; reproductive isolation; recombination; inversions; structural variation; hybridization; sunflowers; population genomics
Non-invasive method of biotic and abiotic stress detection in sunflowers
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
ePlant Pipeline and Navigator for Accessing and Integrating Multi-Level 'Omics Data for 15 Agronomically-Important Species for Hypothesis Generationion.
Principal investigators: Provart, Nicholas J
Keywords: Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Adaptation and Speciation
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Keywords: CRC
Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
Evolutionary genomics of plant adaptation and speciation
Principal investigators: Rieseberg, Loren
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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