top of page

Publications

2025

A unified framework for hydromechanical signaling can explain transmission of local and long-distance signals in plants.
V. Bacheva, F.E. Rockwell, J. Salmon, J.D. Woodson, M.H. Frank, & A.D. Stroock
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (17) e2422692122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422692122 (2025).

Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems.
Bacheva, V., Madison, I., Baldwin, M., Baker, J., Beilstein, M., Call, D.F., Deaver, J.A., Efimenko, K., Genzer, J., Grieger, K., Gu, A.Z., Ilman, M.M., Liu, J., Li, S., Mayer, B.K., Mishra, A.K., Nino, J.C., Rubambiza, G., Sengers, P., Shepherd, R., Woodson, J., Weatherspoon, H., Frank, M., Jones, J.L., Sozzani, R. and Stroock, A.D.
(2025), Glob Change Biol. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70142

Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication.
Pirita Paajanen, Melissa Tomkins, Franziska Hoerbst, Ruth Veevers, Michelle Heeney, Hannah Rae Thomas, Federico Apelt, Eleftheria Saplaoura, Saurabh Gupta, Margaret Frank, Dirk Walther, Christine Faulkner, Julia Kehr, Friedrich Kragler, Richard J Morris.
Nat. Plants (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01979-x

2024

Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato elicits an immune response and triggers localized cell death.

Hannah Rae Thomas, Alice Gevorgyan, Alexandra Hermanson, Samantha Yanders, Lindsay Erndwein, Matthew Norman-Ariztía, Erin E Sparks, Margaret H Frank 

Horticulture Research, Volume 11, Issue 12, December 2024, uhae255, https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhae255

A transcriptional dissection of the petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus L.) reproductive structure
Arielle Rose Johnson, Ashley Bao, Margaret Hannah Frank
bioRxiv 2024.05.06.592779; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.06.592779

 

Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.

Crystal D. Rogers, Chris Amemiya, Swathi Arur, Leslie Babonis, Michael Barresi, Madelaine Bartlett, Richard Behringer, Blair Benham-Pyle, Dominique Bergmann, Ben Blackman, C. Titus Brown, Bill Browne, Jasmin Camacho, Chiswili Yves Chabu, Ida Chow, Ondine Cleaver, Jonah Cool, Megan Y. Dennis, Alexandra Jazz Dickinson, Stefano Di Talia, Margaret Frank, Stewart Gillmor, Eric S. Haag, Iswar Hariharan, Richard Harland, Aman Husbands, Loydie Jerome-Majewska, Kristen Koenig, Carole LaBonne, Michael Layden, Chris Lowe, Madhav Mani, Megan Martik, Katelyn McKown, Cecilia Moens, Christian Mosimann, Joyce Onyenedum, Robert Reed, Ajna Rivera, Dan Rokhsar, Loic Royer, Flora Rutaganira, Rachel Shahan, Neelima Sinha, Billie Swalla, Jaimie M. Van Norman, Daniel E. Wagner, Athula Wikramanayake, Sophia Zebell, Siobhán M. Brady

Development 1 February 2024; 151 (3): dev202342. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202342

2023

Anatomical and biophysical basis for graft incompatibility within the Solanaceae.

Hannah R Thomas, Alice Gevorgyan, Margaret H Frank

Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 74, Issue 15, 17 August 2023, Pages 4461–4470, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad155 

Highlighted in Science Magazine:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9203

​​​

Introduction of barnase/barstar in soybean produces a rescuable male sterility system for hybrid breeding.

Szeluga, N., Baldrich, P., DelPercio, R., Meyers, B. C., & Frank, M. H.

Plant Biotechnology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14155

​

The mRNA mobileome: challenges and opportunities for deciphering signals from the noise.

Michelle Heeney, Margaret H Frank

The Plant Cell, Volume 35, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 1817–1833, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad063

​

Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of Euphorbia peplus, a Model System for Plant Latex, Reveals that Relative Lack of Ty3 Transposons Contributed to Its Small Genome Size. 

Arielle R Johnson, Yuanzheng Yue, Sarah B Carey, Se Jin Park, Lars H Kruse, Ashley Bao, Asher Pasha, Alex Harkess, Nicholas J Provart, Gaurav D Moghe, Margaret H Frank

Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2023, evad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad018

​

2022

Integrated PET and confocal imaging informs a functional timeline for the dynamic process of vascular reconnection during grafting.

Frank, MH, Komarov, S, Wang, Q, Li, K, Hecking, M, Fowler, H, Ravenburg, C, Widmier, A, Johnson, A, Thomas, H, Coneva, V, Chitwood, DH, Tai, Y-C. (2022) In Review

Preprint on BioRxvi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.27.513862

​

ColourQuant: a high-throughput technique to extract and quantify color phenotypes from plant images. Book chapter in High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping.

Li, M, Frank, MH, Migicovsky, Z (2022) Methods Mol Biol​ 2539:77-85. Editor: Dr. Argelia Lorence.

Preprint on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01652

​

The evolutionary history of small RNAs in the Solanaceae.

Baldrich, P, Bélanger, S, Kong, S, Pokhrel, S, Tamim, S, Teng, C, Schiebout, C, Gurazada, SGR, Gupta, P, Patel, P, Nakano, M, Dusia, A, Meyers, BC, Frank, MH

Plant Physiology​ 2022, 189(2): 644-665. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac089  

Preprint on BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.26.445884

​

Gene regulatory networks for compatible versus incompatible grafts identify a role for SlWOX4 during junction formation.

Thomas, H*, Van den Broeck*, L, Spurney, R, Sozzani, R, Frank, M

(2022) The Plant Cell 34(1): 535-556. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab246

Preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/02/27/2021.02.26.433082.full.pdf

2021

A quantitative dissection of color patterning in the foliar ornamental, coleus.

Li, M, Coneva, V, Clark, D, Chitwood, DH, Frank, MH 

Plant Physiology 187(3): 1310-1324. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab393

Preprint on BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.11.426252

 

Growing a glue factory: open questions in laticifer development.

Johnson, A, Moghe, G, Frank MH

Current Opinion in Plant Biology 64: 102096

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102096

​

​

Getting to the root of grafting-induced traits.

Williams, Brandon, Muhammad Umair Ahsan, and Margaret Frank

Current Opinion in Plant Biology 59: 101988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.101988

2020

Li Chengjie Chen, Hao Chen, Yi Zhang, Hannah R.Thomas, Margaret H.Frank, Yehua He, and Rui Xia (2020) TBtools - an integrative toolkit developed for interactive analyses of big biological data. Molecular Plant 13(8): 1194-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.06.009

​

Preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/289660v3 

Download TBtools HERE: https://github.com/CJ-Chen/TBtools/releases

​

Daniel H. Chitwood, Joey Mullins, Zoë Migicovsky, Margaret H. Frank, Robert VanBuren, Jason P. Londo (2020) Vein-to-blade ratio is an allometric indicator of climate-induced changes in grapevine leaf size and shape.  

BioRxiv 2020.05.20.106906; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.20.106906​

​

Abigail E. Bryson et al. (2020) Composite modeling of leaf shape across shoots discriminates Vitis species better than individual leaves.

BioRxiv 2020.06.22.163899; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.22.163899​

2019

Li Li, M, Frank, MH, and Migicovsky, Z (2019) ColourQuant: a high-throughput technique to extract and quantify colour phenotypes from plant images. AriXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01652 and In Review for Springer Books


Thomas, HR and Frank, MH (2019) Connecting the pieces: uncovering the molecular basis for long-distance communication through plant grafting. New Phytologist. 223(2): 582-589.

DOI:10.1111/nph.15772

2018

Lee, J-Y and Frank, MH (2018) Plasmodesmata in phloem: different gateways for different cargoes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 43:119-124

DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.04.014


Li, M, Frank, MH, Coneva, V, Mio, W, Topp, CN, and Chitwood, DH (2018) The persistent homology mathematical framework provides enhanced genotype-to-phenotype associations for plant morphology. Plant Physiology

DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00104

​

Li, M, An, H, Angelovici, R, Bagaza, C, Batushansky, A, Clark, L, Coneva, V, Donoghue, MJ, Edwards, E, Fajardo, D, Fang, H, Frank, MH, Gallaher, T, Gebken, S, Hill, T, Jansky, S, Kaur, B, Klahs, PC, Klein, LL, Kuraparthy, V, Londo, J, Migicovsky, Z, Miller, A, Mohn, R, Myles, S, Otoni, WC, Pires, JC, Rieffer, E, Schmerler, S, Spriggs, E, Topp, CN, Van Deynze, A, Zhang, K, Zhu, L, Zink, BM, and Chitwood DH (2018) Topological Data Analysis as a Morphometric Method: Using Persistent Homology to Demarcate a Leaf Morphospace. Frontiers in Plant Science 553

DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00553

2015-2017

2017


Coneva, V, Frank, MH, de Luis Balaguer, MA, Sozzani, R, and Chitwood, DH (2017) Genetic architecture and molecular networks underlying leaf thickness in desert-adapted tomato Solanum pennellii. Plant Physiology 175(1):376-391.

DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00790

​

Andres, RJ, Coneva, V, Frank, MH, Tuttle, JR, Han, S-W, Samayoa, LF, Kaur, B, Zhu, L, Fang, H, Bowman, DT, Rojas- Pierce, M, Haigler, CH, Jones, DC, Holland, JB, Chitwood, DH, and Kuraparthy, V. Modifications to a LATE MERISTEM IDENTITY-1 gene are responsible for the major leaf shapes of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plus 114(1):E57-E66.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613593114

​

​

2016


Frank, MH and Chitwood, DH (2016) Plant Chimeras: the good, the bad, and the ‘Bizzaria’. Developmental Biology 419: 41-53.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.07.003

​

Warschefsky, EJ, Klein, LL, Frank, MH, Chitwood, DH, Londo, JP, von Wettberg, EJB, and Miller, AJ (2016) Rootstocks: Diversity, Domestication, and Impacts on Shoot Phenotypes. Trends in Plant Science 21: 418-37.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.008



2015


Frank, MH and Scanlon, MJ (2015) Cell-Specific Transcriptomic Analyses of 3-Dimensional Shoot Development in the moss Physcomitrella patens. The Plant Journal 83: 743-751.

DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12928

​

Frank, MH, Edwards, MB, Schultz, ER, McKain, MR, Fei, Z, Sorensen, I, Rose, JKC, Scanlon, MJ (2015) Dissecting the molecular signatures of apical cell-type shoot meristems from two ancient land plant lineages. New Phytologist 207: 893-904.

DOI: 10.1111/nph.13407

​

Frank, MH and Scanlon MJ (2015) Transcriptomic Evidence for the Evolution of Shoot Meristem Function in Sporophyte-Dominant Land Plants through Concerted Selection of Ancestral Gametophytic and Sporophytic Genetic Programs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 355-367.

DOI: 10.1093/mol- bev/msv182

©2020 by Frank Lab at Cornell University. Proudly created with Wix.com

bottom of page