Dr Sofie Pearson
Affiliate of ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Journal Articles
Wei, Chuanzheng, Sun, Shichao, Wang, Yinzi, Liu, Li, Pearson, Sofie, Wang, Yanbo, Dorjee, Tashi, Mace, Emma, Jordan, David, Yang, Yan and Tao, Yongfu (2025). Complete telomere-to-telomere genomes of cowpea reveal insights into centromere evolution in Phaseoleae. Horticulture Research uhaf359. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhaf359
Ofem, Ngozi Paulinus, Kamal, Nasrein Mohamed, Pearson, Sofie, Shatte, Tracey, Jordan, David, Mace, Emma and Ishii, Takayoshi (2025). Genetic diversity and structure of Asian cowpea germplasm. Scientific Reports, 15 (1) 27909, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-13511-4
Meudt, Heidi M., Pearson, Sofie M., Ning, Weixuan, Prebble, Jessica M. and Tate, Jennifer A. (2025). Forget-me-not phylogenomics: Improving the resolution and taxonomy of a rapid island and mountain radiation in Aotearoa New Zealand (Myosotis; Boraginaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 204 108250, 108250. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108250
Pearson, Sofie M., Griffiths, Andrew G., Maclean, Paul, Larking, Anna C., Hong, S. Won, Jauregui, Ruy, Miller, Poppy, McKenzie, Catherine M., Lockhart, Peter J., Tate, Jennifer A., Ford, John L. and Faville, Marty J. (2023). Outlier analyses and genome-wide association study identify glgC and ERD6-like 4 as candidate genes for foliar water-soluble carbohydrate accumulation in Trifolium repens. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13 1095359. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1095359
Van Etten, Megan L., Lehnebach, Carlos A., Pearson, Sofie M., Robertson, Alastair W. and Tate, Jennifer A. (2018). Microsatellite markers for Corybas (Orchidaceae) species in New Zealand. Applications in Plant Sciences, 6 (11) e01192. doi: 10.1002/aps3.1192
Data Collection
Pearson, Sofie, Mace, Emma and Hathorn, Adrian (2025). Cowpea diversity genetic data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/659a65b