* = graduate student, ** = undergraduate student
Publications
Presotto, A., F. Hernández, and K. Mercer. 2019. Phenotypic selection under two contrasting environments in wild sunflower and their crop-wild hybrids. Evolutionary Applications doi: 10.1111/EVA.12828.
Wade, J., S. W. Culman, S. Sharma, M. Mann, M. S. Demyan, K. L. Mercer and N. T. Basta. How does phosphorus restriction impact soil health parameters in Midwestern corn-soybean cropping systems? Accepted: Agronomy Journal 111: 1-11. doi: 10.2134/agronj2018.11.0739
Mercer, K.L., Y. Vigouroux, N.P. Castañeda-Álvarez, S. de Haan, R.J. Hijmans, C. Leclerc, D. McKey, and S.Vanek. 2019. Crop evolutionary agroecology: genetic and functional dimensions of agrobiodiversity and associated knowledge. In: Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, edited by K. S. Zimmerer and S. de Haan. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 24, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
https://esforum.de/forums/esf24_Agrobiodiversity.html
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/agrobiodiversity
Pérez-Alquicira, J., A. Michel, E. vander Knaap, K. Mercer, L. McHale,T. Mitchell, J. Luna-Ruiz, E. Texocotitla-Vázquez, O. Vargas-Ponce. 2019. Genetic structure of Liriomyza trifolii (Diptera: Agromyzidae) associated to host plants and pepper landraces in Mexico. Environmental Entomology 13: 253-262. doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvy184
Mercer, K. L. and J. D. Wainwright. 2018. Science in ‘the storm’: Reflections on politics and plant sciences today. Human Geography 11: 1-10.
Mercer, K.L. and H.R. Perales. Structure of local adaptation across the landscape: flowering time and fitness in Mexican maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) landraces. 2018. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. doi: 10.1007/s10722-018-0693-7
Correction: Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 66:289-290
Taitano, N., V. Bernau*, L. Jardón-Barbolla, B. Leckie, M. Mazourek, K. Mercer, L. McHale, A. Michel, D. Baumler, M. Kantar, and E. Vanderknaap. 2018. Genome-wide genotyping of novel Mexican chile pepper collection illuminates the history of landrace differentiation after Capsicum annuum L. domestication. Evolutionary Applications. doi: org/10.1111/eva.12651
Taitano, N., V. Bernau*, L. Jardón-Barbolla, B. Leckie, M. Mazourek, K. Mercer, L. McHale, A. Michel, D. Baumler, M. Kantar, and E. Vanderknaap. 2019. Genome-wide genotyping of novel Mexican chile pepper collection illuminates the history of landrace differentiation after Capsicum annuum L. domestication. Evolutionary Applications 12: 78-92. doi: org/10.1111/eva.12651
Mercer, K.L. 2018. Towards evolutionary agroecology. Interdisciplina 6(14): 51-68.
Kost, M.A.*, H.R. Perales, S. Wijeratne, A.J. Wijeratne, E. Stockinger and K.L. Mercer. 2017. Differentiated transcriptional signatures in the maize landraces of Chiapas, Mexico. BMC Genomics 18:707. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4005-y