Gabriel Johnson

• MS, Southern Illinois University
• BS, Lebanon Valley College

Molecular research, pteridophyte morphology, plant ultrastructure, and cell wall physiology

Journal Article

• Gallego-Narbón, Angélica, Johnson, Gabriel, Fernández-Mazuecos, Mario, Wen, Jun, and Valcárcel, Virginia. 2025. "Ancient polyploidization events influence the evolution of the ginseng family (Araliaceae)." Frontiers in Plant Science, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1595321.
• Sparreo, Luke, Talavera, Alicia, Nie, Ze‐Long, Johnson, Gabriel, Literman, Robert, Handy, Sara, and Wen, Jun. 2025. "Phylogenomic insights into the origin of the Norton grape." PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70012.
• Wen, Jun, Quintanar Castillo, Angélica, Pace, Marcelo R., Talavera, Alicia, Sparreo, Luke, Johnson, Gabriel, Krupnick, Gary A., and Nie, Ze-Long. 2025. "Phylogenomic analyses support a new subgenus, Rojovitis, of the grape genus Vitis from Mexico." Frontiers in Plant Science, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1580648.
• De Silva, Shashini, Cagliero, Cecilia, Gostel, Morgan R., Johnson, Gabriel, and Anderson, Jared L. 2024. "Versatile DNA extraction from diverse plant taxa using ionic liquids and magnetic ionic liquids: a methodological breakthrough for enhanced sample utility." Plant Methods, 20, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-024-01217-z.
• Lan, Zhi-Qiong, Zheng, Wen, Talavera, Alicia, Nie, Ze-Long, Liu, Jing, Johnson, Gabriel, Yin, Xian-Mei, Zhao, Wen-Qi, Zhao, Zong-Yi, Handy, Sara M., and Wen, Jun. 2024. "Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of plastid genomes of the medicinally important genus Alisma (Alismataceae)." Frontiers in Plant Science, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1415253.
• Ren, Chen, Wang, Long, Nie, Ze-Long, Tang, Ming, Johnson, Gabriel, Tan, Hui-Tong, Xia, Nian-He, Wen, Jun, and Yang, Qin-Er. 2024. "Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline." Systematic Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae046.
• Zhang, Meng‐Hua, Nie, Ze‐Long, Fairbanks, Regina A., Liu, Jing, Literman, Robert, Johnson, Gabriel, Handy, Sara, and Wen, Jun. 2024. "Phylogenomic insights into species relationships, reticulate evolution, and biogeographic diversification of the ginseng genus Panax (Araliaceae), with an emphasis on the diversification in the Himalayan‐Hengduan Mountains." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13138.
• De Silva, Shashini, Ocaña-Rios, Iran, Cagliero, Cecilia, Gostel, Morgan R., Johnson, Gabriel P., and Anderson, Jared L. 2023. "Isolation of DNA from plant tissues using a miniaturized matrix solid-phase dispersion approach featuring ionic liquid and magnetic ionic liquid solvents." Analytica Chimica Acta, 1245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2023.340858.
• Nie, Ze‐Long, Hodel, Richard, Ma, Zhi‐Yao, Johnson, Gabriel, Ren, Chen, Meng, Ying, Ickert‐Bond, Stefanie M., Liu, Xiu‐Qun, Zimmer, Elizabeth, and Wen, Jun. 2023. "Climate‐influenced boreotropical survival and rampant introgressions explain the thriving of New World grapes in the north temperate zone." Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 65, (5) 1183–1203. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13466.
• Ballantine, David L., Norris, James N., Johnson, Gabe P., and Ruiz, Hector J. 2023. "Dasya hispida sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico and Grenada, Caribbean sea." Botanica Marina, https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2022-0065.
• Johnson, Gabriel, Canty, Steven W. J., Lichter‐Marck, Isaac H., Wagner, Warren, and Wen, Jun. 2023. "Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species." Applications in Plant Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11519.
• Talavera, Alicia, Nie, Ze-Long, Ma, Zhi-Yao, Johnson, Gabriel, Ickert-Bond, Stefanie, Zimmer, Elizabeth A., and Wen, Jun. 2023. "Phylogenomic analyses using a new 1013-gene Vitaceae bait-set support major groups of North American Vitis." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107866.
• Emaus, Miranda N., Cagliero, Cecilia, Gostel, Morgan R., Johnson, Gabriel, and Anderson, Jared L. 2022. "Simple and efficient isolation of plant genomic DNA using magnetic ionic liquids." Plant Methods, 18, (1) 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00860-8.
• Ren, Chen, Wang, Long, Nie, Ze-Long, Johnson, Gabriel, Yang, Qin-Er, and Wen, Jun. 2021. "Development and phylogenetic utilities of a new set of single-/low-copy nuclear genes in Senecioneae (Asteraceae), with new insights into the tribal position and the relationships within subtribe Tussilagininae." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107202.
• Leao, Luis Alfredo S., Bahia, Ricardo G., Jesionek, Michel B., Adey, Walter H., Johnson, Gabriel, Salgado, Leonardo T., and Pereira, Renato C. 2020. "Sporolithon franciscanum sp. nov. (Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a New Rhodolith-Forming Species from Northeast Brazil." Diversity-Basel, 12, (5). https://doi.org/10.3390/d12050199.
• Lichter‐Marck, Isaac H., Freyman, William A., Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Mandel, Jennifer R., Castro‐Castro, Arturo, Johnson, Gabriel, and Baldwin, Bruce G. 2020. "Phylogenomics of Perityleae (Compositae) provides new insights into morphological and chromosomal evolution of the rock daisies." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 58, (6 (Special Issue)) 853–880. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12711.
• Lorence, David H., Wagner, Warren L., Wood, Kenneth R., and Johnson, Gabriel. 2020. "Pogostemon guamensis Lorence & W.L.Wagner (Lamiaceae), a new species from Guam, Mariana Islands." PhytoKeys, 169 61–73. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.169.58107.
• Knope, Matthew L., Funk, Vicki Ann, Johnson, Melissa A., Wagner, Warren L., Datlof, Erin M., Johnson, Gabriel, Crawford, Daniel J., Bonifacino, J. Mauricio, Morden, Clifford W., Lorence, David H., Wood, Kenneth R., Meyer, Jean-Yves, and Carlquist, Sherwin. 2020. "Dispersal and adaptive radiation of Bidens (Compositae) across the remote archipelagoes of Polynesia." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 58, (6) 805–822. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12704.
• Wen, Jun, Herron, Sterling A., Yang, Xue, Liu, Bin-Bin, Zuo, Yun-Juan, Harris, Aj, Kalburgi, Yash, Johnson, Gabriel, and Zimmer, Elizabeth A. 2020. "Nuclear and Chloroplast Sequences Resolve the Enigmatic Origin of the Concord Grape." Frontiers in Plant Science, 11 Article 263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00263.
• Ballantine, David L., Brooks, Barrett L., and Johnson, Gabe P. 2019. "Some rarely reported deep-water macroalgal species from Bonaire, Caribbean Sea, including Verdigellas discoidea sp. nov. (Palmophyllaceae, Chlorophyta) based on submersible collections." Botanica Marina, 62, (6). https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2019-0026.
• Johnson, Gabriel. 2019. "High throughput DNA extraction of legume root nodules for rhizobial metagenomics." AMB Express, 9, (1) 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-019-0771-z.
• Liu, Bin-Bin, Hong, De-Yuan, Zhou, Shi-Liang, Xu, Chao, Dong, Wen-Pan, Johnson, Gabriel, and Wen, Jun. 2019. "Phylogenomic analyses of the Photinia complex support the recognition of a new genus Phippsiomeles and the resurrection of a redefined Stranvaesia in Maleae (Rosaceae)." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 57, (6) 678–694. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12542.
• Shivakumar, Vikram S., Johnson, Gabriel, and Zimmer, Elizabeth A. 2019. "Transcriptome analysis of the curry tree (Bergera koenigii L., Rutaceae) during leaf development." Scientific Reports, 9 Article 4230. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40227-z.
• Troia, Angelo, Johnson, Gabriel, and Taylor, W. Carl. 2019. "A contribution to the phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Isoetes (Isoetaceae, Lycopodiidae) in the Mediterranean region." Phytotaxa, 395, (3) 168–178. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.395.3.2.
• Jiang, Lan, Wang, Qingqing, Yu, Jue, Gowda, Vinita, Johnson, Gabriel, Yang, Jianke, Kan, Xianzhao, and Yang, Xiaojun. 2018. "miRNAome expression profiles in the gonads of adult Melopsittacus undulatus." PeerJ, 6 e4615. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4615.
• Schafran, Peter W., Johnson, Gabriel, Taylor, W. Carl, Zimmer, Elizabeth A., and Musselman, Lytton J. 2018. "Low-copy nuclear markers in Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae) identified with transcriptomes." Applications in Plant Sciences, 6, (4). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1142.
• Wen, Jun, Harris, Aj, Kalburgi, Yash, Zhang, Ning, Xu, Yuan, Zheng, Wei, Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M., Johnson, Gabriel, and Zimmer, Elizabeth A. 2018. "Chloroplast phylogenomics of the New World grape species (Vitis, Vitaceae)." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 56, (4) 297–308. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12447.
• Zhao, Liang, Potter, Daniel, Xu, Yuan, Liu, Pei-Liang, Johnson, Gabriel, Chang, Zhao-Yang, and Wen, Jun. 2018. "Phylogeny and spatio-temporal diversification of Prunus subgenus Laurocerasus section Mesopygeum (Rosaceae) in the Malesian region." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 56, (6) 637–651. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12467.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Wurdack, Kenneth J., Ferrucci, M. S., Johnson, Gabriel, Dias, Pedro, Coelho, Rubens G., Somner, Genise V., Steinmann, Victor W., Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne, and Strong, Mark T. 2017. "Generic Relationships and Classification of Tribe Paullinieae (Sapindaceae) with a New Concept of Supertribe Paulliniodae." Systematic Botany, 42, (1) 96–114. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364417X694926.
• Shi, Wei, Wen, Jun, Zhao, Yanfeng, Johnson, Gabriel, and Pan, Borong. 2017. "Reproductive biology and variation of nuclear ribosomal ITS and ETS sequences in the Calligonum mongolicum complex (Polygonaceae)." PhytoKeys, (76) 71–88. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.76.10428.
• Shivakumar, Vikram S., Appelhans, Marc S., Johnson, Gabriel, Carlsen, Monica, and Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne. 2017. "Analysis of whole chloroplast genomes from the genera of the Clauseneae, the curry tribe (Rutaceae, Citrus family)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 117 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.015.
• Duan, Lei, Yang, Xue, Liu, Peiliang, Johnson, Gabriel, Wen, Jun, and Chang, Zhaoyang. 2016. "A molecular phylogeny of Caraganeae (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) reveals insights into new generic and infrageneric delimitations." PhytoKeys, (70) 111–137. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.70.9641.
• Schuettpelz, Eric, Chen, Cheng-Wei, Kessler, Michael, Pinson, Jerald B., Johnson, Gabriel, Davila, Alex, Cochran, Alyssa T., Huiet, Layne, and Pryer, Kathleen M. 2016. "A revised generic classification of vittarioid ferns (Pteridaceae) based on molecular, micromorphological, and geographic data." Taxon, 65, (4) 708–722. https://doi.org/10.12705/654.2.
• Adey, Walter H., Hernández-Kantún, Jazmin J., Johnson, Gabriel, and Gabrielson, Paul W. 2015. "DNA sequencing, anatomy, and calcification patterns support a monophyletic, subarctic, carbonate reef-forming Clathromorphum (Hapalidiaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta)." Journal of Phycology, 51, (1) 189–203. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12266.
• Bahia, Ricardo G., Amado-Filho, Gilberto, Maneveldt, Gavin W., Adey, Walter H., Johnson, Gabriel, Jesionek, Michel B., and Longo, Leila L. 2015. "Sporolithon yoneshigueae sp. nov. (Sporolithales, Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta), a new rhodolith-forming coralline alga from the southwest Atlantic." Phytotaxa, 224, (2) 140–158. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.224.2.2.
• Laughinghouse, Haywood Dail, Müller, Kirsten M., Adey, Walter H., Lara, Yannick, Young, Robert, and Johnson, Gabriel P. 2015. "Evolution of the Northern Rockweed, Fucus distichus, in a Regime of Glacial Cycling: Implications for Benthic Algal Phylogenetics." PloS One, 10, (12) 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143795.
• Bahia, Ricardo G., Amado-Filho, Gilberto, Maneveldt, Gavin W., Adey, Walter H., Johnson, Gabriel, Marins, Bianca V., and Longo, Leila L. 2014. "Sporolithon tenue sp. nov. (Sporolithales, Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta): A new rhodolith-forming species from the tropical southwestern Atlantic." Phycological Research, 62, (1) 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/pre.12033.
• Liu, Xiao-Lin, Wen, Jun, Nie, Ze-Long, Johnson, Gabriel, Liang, Zong-Suo, and Chang, Zhao-Yang. 2013. "Polyphyly of the Padus group of Prunus (Rosaceae) and the evolution of biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and eastern North America." Journal of Plant Research, 126, (3) 351–361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-012-0535-1.
• Peterson, Paul M., Romaschenko, Konstantin, Snow, Neil, and Johnson, Gabriel P. 2012. "A Molecular Phylogeny and Classification of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) Sensu Lato and Related Genera." Annals of Botany, 109, (7) 1317–1330. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcs077.
• Bacon, Christine D., Johnson, Gabriel P., Meimberg, Harald, Puppo, Pamela, Simmons, Mark P., and Wagner, Warren L. 2011. "Development of microsatellites in the Hawaiian endemic palm Pritchardia martii (Arecaceae) and their utility in congeners." American Journal of Botany, 98, (6) e139–e140. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100073.
• Chin, Siew-Wai, Wen, Jun, Johnson, Gabriel P., and Potter, Dan. 2010. "Merging Maddenia with the morphologically diverse Prunus (Rosaceae)." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 164, (3) 236–245. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01083.x.
• Peterson, Paul M., Romaschenko, Konstantin, and Johnson, Gabriel P. 2010. "A phylogeny and classification of the Muhlenbergiinae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae) based on plastid and nuclear DNA sequences." American Journal of Botany, 97, (9) 1532–1554. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0900359.
• Peterson, Paul M., Romaschenko, Konstantin, and Johnson, Gabriel P. 2010. "A classification of the Chloridoideae (Poaceae) based on multi-gene phylogenetic trees." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 55, (2) 580–598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.018.
• Johnson, Gabriel P. and Renzaglia, Karen S. 2009. "Evaluating the diversity of pteridophyte embryology in the light of recent phylogenetic analyses leads to new inferences on character evolution." Plant Systematics and Evolution, 283, (3-4) 149–164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-009-0222-4.

Dataset

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro, Wurdack, Kenneth J., Ferrucci, M. S., Johnson, Gabriel, Dias, Pedro, Coelho, Rubens G., Somner, Genise V., Steinmann, Victor W., Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne, and Strong, Mark T. 2017. [Dataset] Generic Relationships and Classification of Tribe Paullinieae (Sapindaceae) with a New Concept of Supertribe Paulliniodae. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p2g6p.