David L. Des Marais

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

29h-index5.9kcitations102works2.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Planetary Science and Exploration(26), Astro and Planetary Science(16), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(13), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance(12), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(12)

Publications102 total

Breeding of microbiomes conferring salt tolerance to plants
Microbiome·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Does genetic variation in controlled experiments predict phenology of wild plants?
Journal of Evolutionary Biology·2025
Genotype by Environment Interactions in Gene Regulation Underlie the Response to Soil Drying in the Model Grass <i>Brachypodium distachyon</i>
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Machine learning-enabled non-targeted metabolomics reveals nutritional and metabolic responses of <i>Brachypodium distachyon</i> to drought and elevated CO2
Journal of Experimental Botany·2025· 3 cited
Gene Regulatory Changes Associated With Phenological Transitions in an Ecologically Significant Tree Species
Plant-Environment Interactions·2025Open Access
A machine learning-enabled approach to assess trade-offs between growth and stress tolerance in <i>Pooideae</i> grasses following domestication
Journal of Experimental Botany·2025· 2 cited
Genomics highlight an underestimation of phenology sensitivity to the urban heat island effect
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Breeding of microbiomes conferring salt tolerance to plants
2025
Gene regulatory changes associated with phenological transitions in an ecologically significant tree species
2025Open Access
Plant nutritional and metabolic responses to drought and elevated CO <sub>2</sub> revealed by machine learning-enabled non-targeted metabolomics
2025Open Access
Does domestication trade-off stress tolerance for leaf growth? A search for evidence across eight Pooideae grass species
2024Open Access
Dynamics of Expression Variability Underpin Retention of Small-Scale vs. Whole-Genome Duplicates
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Disentangling variational bias: the roles of development, mutation, and selection
Trends in Genetics·2024· 5 cited
Does genetic variation in controlled experiments predict phenology of wild plants?
2024Open Access
The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 17 cited
Disentangling variational bias: the roles of development, mutation and selection
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Timing is everything: How plants optimize reproduction in a variable environment
Cell·2024
Genotype by environment interactions in gene regulation underlie the response to soil drying in the model grass <i>Brachypodium distachyon</i>
2024Open Access
Nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics' relationship to leaf development under varying environments
New Phytologist·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Digest: Multivariate genetic variation constrains adaptation to environmental changes during range expansion
Evolution·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas Juenger(21), R. V. Morris(7), Jesse R. Lasky(6), R. E. Arvidson(5), Bruno Contreras‐Moreira(4), Pilar Catalán(4), Jack D. Farmer(4), John McKay(4), James H. Richards(4), S. L. Murchie(3), F. P. Seelos(3), Sean Gordon(3), John P. Vogel(3), D. F. Blake(3), D. T. Vaniman(3), C. N. Achilles(3), D. L. Bish(3), J. A. Crisp(3), A. H. Treiman(3), Paul E. Verslues(3)