Publications

Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Akshay B. Tawale, Matías Schierenbeck, Daniele Sandoni, Dylan Hugo Jones, Gwendolyn K. Kirschner, Hannah M. Schneider (2026) Root phenotypic plasticity improves yield stability when directed toward an adaptive integrated phenotype. bioRxiv Full Record
Matías Schierenbeck, Akshay B. Tawale, Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Dylan H. Jones, Annegret Wolf, Petra Linow, Corinna Trautewig, Hannah M. Schneider (2026) A thermal time framework drives coordinated below- and above-ground development in temperate cereal crops. bioRxiv Full Record
Giuliano, E., Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Rafaela Feola Conz, Cody L. DePew, Jonathan P. Lynch, Johan Six, Martin Hartmann & Tania Galindo-Castañeda. (2026) Digging for meaningful connections: associations between root phenotypes and rhizosphere microbial diversity in maize. Plant and soil Full Record
Giuliano, E., Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Feola Conz, R., Depew, C., Lynch, J. P., Six, J., Hartmann, M., & Galindo-Castañeda, T. (2026). Shovelomics meets microbiomics: root phenotype-microbiome associations and links with maize yield under nitrogen limitation. Rhizosphere, Full Record

Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, Harini Rangarajan, Kelly Swarts, Bruce F. Benz, Michael Blake, Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Sergio Perez-Limon, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Hannah Schneider, Jonathan P. Lynch. In silico analysis of the evolution of root phenotypes during maize domestication in Neolithic soils of Tehuacán, New Phytologist Full Record

Dylan H. Jones, Kaisa Kajala, Dorota Kawa, Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Tino Kreszies & Hannah M. Schneider (2025) The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue. Plant and Soil. Full Record

Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Harini Rangarajan, Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, Jonathan P. Lynch Exploring yield stability and the fitness landscape of maize landrace root phenotypes in silico. biorxiv Full Record

Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Ivan Lopez-Valdivia, Christopher F Strock, Hannah M Schneider, Jonathan Lynch. 2024. Cortical parenchyma wall width regulates root metabolic cost and maize performance under suboptimal water availability. Journal of Experimental Botany Full Record

Ivan Lopez-Valdivia; Xiyu Yang; Jonathan P. Lynch. 2023. Large root cortical cells and reduced cortical cell files improve growth under suboptimal nitrogen in silico. Plant Physiology, Full Record

Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada; Guillermo G. Hernández-Robles; Eduardo González-Orozco; Ivan Lopez-Valdivia; Teresa Rosales Tham; Víctor Vásquez Sánchez; Kelly Swarts; Tom D. Dillehay; Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada; Rafael Montiel. 2023. Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru. eLife, Full Record

Lopez-Valdivia Ivan, Alden Perkins, Hannah Schneider, Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, James Burridge, Eduardo González-Orozco, Aurora Montufar, Rafael Montiel, Jonathan Lynch, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada. 2022. Gradual domestication of root traits in the earliest maize from Tehuacan. PNAS Vol. 119 No. 17 e2110245119 Full Record

Lopez-Valdivia Ivan (2019) Caracterización de raíces milenarias de maíz provenientes de Tehuacán: comparación con poblaciones actuales del género Zea. CINVESTAV. Mexico. Tesis de Maestria. Full Record