Rhizosphere Microbial Ecology-Publications
1. Morello, JE, EA Pierson, and LS Pierson III. (2004). Negative cross-communication among wheat rhizosphere bacteria: Effect on antibiotic production by the biological control bacterium Pseudomonas aureofaciens 30-84. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(5):3103-9.

2. Loh, J, Pierson, EA, Pierson, LS III, Stacy, G, and A. Chatterjee. 2002. Quorum sensing in plant-associated bacteria. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5:1-5.

3. Chancey, S. T., D. W. Wood, E. A. Pierson, and L. S. Pierson III. 2002. Survival of GacS/GacA mutants of the biological control bacterium Pseudomonas aureofaciens 30-84 in the wheat rhizosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68: 3308-3314.

4. Pierson, E. A., D. W. Wood, J. A. Cannon, F. M. Blachere, and L. S. Pierson III. 1998. Interpopulation signaling via N-acyl homoserine lactones among bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 11:1078-1084.

5. Pierson, L. S. III, D. W. Wood, and E. A. Pierson. 1998. Homoserine lactone-mediated gene regulation in plant-associated bacteria. Annual Review of Phytopathology 36:207-225.

Microarrays--Publications
6. Galbraith, D. W.; Macas, J.; Pierson, E. A., Xu, W., and Nouzová, M. (2001). Printing DNA microarrays using the Biomek® Laboratory Automation Workstation. Methods in Molecular Biology (DNA Arrays Methods and Protocols); Rampal, J. B., ed., Humana Press, New Jersey.

7. Fernandes, J., Brendel, V., Gai, X., Lal, S., Chandler, V., Galbraith, D. Elumalai, R., Pierson, E, Walbot, V. 2002. Comparison of RNA expression profiles based on maize expressed sequence tag frequency analysis and micro-array hybridization. Plant Physiology 128:896-910.
Terrestrial Plant Ecology--Publications

8. Harris, LK, EA Pierson, C Funicelli, S Morales, K Hutton, and J Ashbeck. (In Press). Long-term study of preserved and transplanted saguaros in an urban housing and golf course Development. Desert Plants.

9. Bowers, J. E. and E. A. Pierson. 2001. Implications of seed size for seedling survival in Carnegiea gigantea and Ferocactus wislizeni (Cactaceae). The Southwestern Naturalist 46(3):272-281.

10. Pierson, E. A. and R. M. Turner. 1998. An 85-yr study of saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) demography at the Desert Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill. Ecology 79:2676-2693.

11. Bowers, J. E., R. H. Webb, and E. A. Pierson. 1997. Primary succession of desert plants on debris flow terraces, Grand Canyon, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 36(1):67-86.