Preprints
Strigolactone effects on Sorghum bicolor ecophysiology and symbioses. Chloee M. McLaughlin, Margarita Takou, Joel Masanga, Erica H. Lawrence-Paul, Evelyn J. Abraham, Melanie Perryman, Anna Calabritto, Amandeep Cheema, Yuxing Luo, Baloua Nebie, Steven Runo, Joshua J. Kellogg, Roberta Croce, Daniel P. Schachtman, Huirong Gao, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Jesse R. Lasky. bioRxiv 2025.08.07.669140.
Leveraging species-wide variation and patterns of adaptation to inform pecan crop improvement efforts. Paul P Grabowski, Chloee M McLaughlin, Joanna Rifkin, Jerry J Jenkins, Angelyn Hilton, Hormat Shadgou Rhein, Kimberly Cervantes, Motoyuki Ishimori, Avinash Sreedasyam, Chris Plott, Jenell Webber, Nolan Bentley, Gaurab Bhattarai, Paul Oladimeji Gabriel, Anna Harmon, Keith Kubenka, Clive Bock, Warren Chatwin, Patrick Conner, LJ Grauke, Jane Grimwood, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Patricia Klein, Christopher P Mattison, Cristina Pisani, Jeremy Schmutz, Joshua Udall, Xinwang Wang, Jennifer Randall, John T Lovell. bioRxiv 2025.12.19.695279.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Morris G. P., Harder A. M., Healey A. L., McLaughlin C. M., Rifkin J. R. et al. (2026) A sorghum pangenome refernce improves global crop trait discovery. Nature 652, 1245 - 1253. LINK
McLaughlin C. M., Shi Y., Viswanathan V. et al. (2025). Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe. Nature Communications 16, 4289. LINK
McLaughlin C. M., Hinshaw C., Sandoval-Arango S., Zavala-Paez M., Hamilton J. A. (2025). Redlisting genetics: towards incorporation of genomic data in conservation assessments. Conservation Genetics 26 (2), 213-223. LINK
Yu P., Li C., Li M. et al. (2024). Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion. Nature Genetics 56, 1245–1256. LINK
He X., Wang D., Jiang Y. et al. (2024). Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties. Nature Plants 10, 598–617. LINK
McLaughlin C. M., Li M., Perryman, M. Heymans, A. Schneider H., Lasky J. R., & Sawers R. J. H. (2024). Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize. Evolutionary Applications 17, e13673. LINK
Bellis E.S., McLaughlin C.M., dePamphilis C.W., & Lasky J.R. (2021). The geography of parasite local adaptation to host communities. Ecography 44, 1205-1217. LINK
Posters and Presentations
Chloee McLaughlin. Predicting maladaptation in crop landraces following a global climate catastrophe. AGBT-Ag. April 2025 (Orlando, FL).
Chloee McLaughlin. Predicting maladaptation in crop landraces following a global climate catastrophe. Botany. July 2023 (Boise, ID).
Chloee McLaughlin. Predicting maladaptation in crop landraces following a global climate catastrophe. Conservation Genomics at the Population Level. November 2022 (Virtual).
Chloee McLaughlin. Count the cost: Trade-offs associated with LOW GERMINATION STIMULANT 1 resistance in Sorghum bicolor. Global Sorghum Conference. July 2023 (Montpellier, France).
Chloee McLaughlin. Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize. Penn State Plant Science Departmental Seminar. 2023.
Chloee McLaughlin. Linking phenotypes, environments, and genotypes in Zea mays landraces. Evolution. June 2022 (Cleveland, OH).
Chloee McLaughlin. Predicting landrace maladaptation under nuclear winter conditions. Penn State Food Resilience Research Group. 2022.
Chloee McLaughlin, Meng Li. Detection of root traits and environmental associations in Zea mays landraces. ISRR 2021.
Chloee Collins. Development of Ocimum recombinant inbred lines with downy mildew resistance. IPBC 2018.
Patents
Dave Clark, Chloee McLaughlin. Besto Pesto. Proven Winners. (Available in Garden Centers and Online, Spring 2021)
Dave Clark, Chloee McLaughlin. Ocimum hybrid. Scotts. (Available in Garden Centers, Spring 2022)