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Evolution, Biogeography & Population Genetics

Cantley, J.T., Jordon-Thaden, I.E., Roche, M.D., Hayes, D., Kate, S. & Martine, C.T. (2023). Foundational population genetics investigation of the sexual systems of Solanum in the Australian Monsoon Tropics suggests dioecious taxa may benefit from increased genetic admixture via obligate outcrossing. Plants 12: 2200.

 

Bullock, M. & Cantley, J.T. (2022). Exploring evolutionary adaptations of leaf heteroblasty in subspecific taxa of Hawaiian Chenopodium oahuense. American Journal of Botany.
Graduate student-led research from the Cantley Lab.

 

Keeley, S.C., Cantley, J.T. & Gallaher, T.A. (2021). The “evil tribe” spreads across the land: A dated molecular phylogeny provides insight into dispersal, expansion, and biogeographic relationships within one of the largest tribes of the sunflower family. American Journal of Botany 108: 505–519.

 

Cantley, J.T., McDonnell, A.J., Branson, J., Kobara, J., Long, S.R., Garnett, W. & Martine, C.T. (2020). Temperate Eurasian origins of Hawaiian Chenopodium plus description of a new species endemic to Moloka‘i. Systematic Botany 45: 554–566.

 

Edwards, R.D., Cantley, J.T., Chau, M.M., Keeley, S.C. & Funk, V.A. (2018). Biogeography and relationships within the Melanthera alliance: A pan-tropical lineage. Taxon 67: 552–564.

Cantley, J.T., Swenson, N., Markey, A. & Keeley, S.C. (2014). Biogeographic insights on Pacific Coprosma indicate two colonizations to the Hawaiian Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 412–424.

 

Plant Reproduction & Sexual Diversity

McDonnell, A.J., Wetreich, H.B., Cantley, J.T., Jobson, P. & Martine, C.T. (2019). Solanum plastisexum, an enigmatic new bush tomato from the Australian Monsoon Tropics exhibiting breeding system fluidity. PhytoKeys 124: 39–55.

 

Martine, C.T., Jordon-Thaden, I.E., McDonnell, A.J., Cantley, J.T., Hayes, D.S., Roche, M.D., Frawley, E.S., Gilman, I.S. & Tank, D.C. (2019). Phylogeny of the Australian Solanum dioicum group, with consideration of fruit and seed dispersal hypotheses. PLOS ONE 14: e0207564.

 

Cantley, J.T., Frohlich, D. & Martine, C.T. (2016). Multiple records of monoecy and leakiness in dioecious taxa of Hawaiian Coprosma. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 118: 9–12.

 

Species Discovery & Description

Martine, C.T., Brennan, K., Cantley, J.T., Webb, A.T. & Newton, G. (2025). A new dioecious bush tomato, Solanum nectarifolium, from the northern Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, with reassessment of S. ossicruentum and a change in the circumscription of S. dioicum. PhytoKeys 268: 183–205.

 

Williams, T.M., Hayes, J., McDonnell, A.J., Cantley, J.T., Jobson, P. & Martine, C.T. (2022). Solanum scalarium, a newly described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. PhytoKeys 216: 103–117.

 

Cantley, J.T., Sporck-Koehler, M.J. & Chau, M.M. (2016). New and resurrected Hawaiian species of pilo (Coprosma, Rubiaceae) from the island of Maui. PhytoKeys 60: 33–48.

 

Martine, C.T., Cantley, J.T., Frawley, E.S., Butler, A.R. & Jordon-Thaden, I.E. (2016). A new functionally dioecious bush tomato from northwestern Australia, Solanum ossicruentum, may utilize “trample burr” dispersal. PhytoKeys 63: 19–29.

 

Martine, C.T., Frawley, E.S., Cantley, J.T. & Jordon-Thaden, I.E. (2016). Solanum watneyi, a new bush tomato species from the Northern Territory, Australia, named for Mark Watney of The Martian. PhytoKeys 61: 1–13.

 

Teaching, Mentoring & Botanical Infrastructure

Aranda, M., Diaz, M., Mena, L., Ortiz, J., Rivera-Nolan, C., Sanchez, D., Sanchez, M., Upchurch, A., Williams, C., et al., Cantley, J.T., et al. (2020). Student-authored Scientist Spotlights: Investigating the impacts of engaging undergraduates as developers of inclusive curriculum through a service-learning course. CBE—Life Sciences Education 20: ar55.

 

Hayes, D.S., Jordon-Thaden, I.E., Cantley, J.T., McDonnell, A.J. & Martine, C.T. (2019). Integrated pest management in the academic small greenhouse setting: A case study using Solanum spp. Applications in Plant Sciences: e11281.

Jordon-Thaden, I.E., Beck, J.B., Rushworth, C.A., Windham, M.D., Diaz, N., Cantley, J.T., Martine, C.T. & Rothfels, C.J. (2020). A basic ddRADseq two-enzyme protocol performs well with herbarium and silica-dried tissues across four genera. Applications in Plant Sciences 8: e11344.

 

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