Carolyn Lowry

Assistant Professor of Plant Science


Carolyn Lowry

Huck Graduate Students

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Crop and Weed Management Practices of Snap Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Production Fields in the United States

Pavle Pavlovic, Jed B. Colquhoun, Nicholas E. Korres, Rui Liu, Carolyn J. Lowry, Ed Peachey, Barbara Scott, Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Mark J. VanGessel, Martin M. Williams, 2025, Hortscience: A Publication of the American Society for Hortcultural Science on p. 267-272

Soil-mediated effects of cover crops on weed-crop competition

Alicia Rouge, John Wallace, Stéphane Cordeau, Delphine Moreau, Jean Philippe Guillemin, Carolyn J. Lowry, 2025, Weed Research

Effect of increasing temperature and temperature fluctuations on alfalfa and orchardgrass in the establishment year

Ashley Isaacson, Alexandra Contosta, Richard G. Smith, Christopher Stamplis, Carolyn J. Lowry, 2024, Ecosphere

Weed communities of snap bean fields in the United States

Pavle Pavlovic, Jed B. Colquhoun, Nicholas E. Korres, Rui Liu, Carolyn J. Lowry, Ed Peachey, Barbara Scott, Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Mark J. VanGessel, Martin M. Williams, 2024, Weed Science

If you can’t beat them, join them: using invasive plants to understand rhizodeposits as drivers of plant-soil feedbacks

Carolyn J. Lowry, Katherine M. Blocklove, Kara E. Eckert, Nasib Koirala, Emma K. Rice, 2024, Frontiers in Agronomy

Estimating local eradication costs for invasive Miscanthus populations throughout the eastern and midwestern United States

Carolyn J. Lowry, David P. Matlaga, Natalie M. West, Martin M. Williams, Adam S. Davis, 2022, Invasive Plant Science and Management on p. 115-121

Weed seed mass affects seedling establishment and resource allocation patterns across a cereal rye surface residue gradient

Teala Ficks, Carolyn J. Lowry, John M. Wallace, 2022, Weed Research on p. 49-58

Weed germinable seedbanks of rice–wheat systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: Do tillage and edaphic factors explain community variation?

Carolyn J. Lowry, Daniel C. Brainard, Virender Kumar, Richard G. Smith, Madhulika Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Rajiv K. Joon, Raj K. Jat, Shishpal Poonia, Ram K. Malik, Andrew McDonald, 2021, Weed Research on p. 475-485

Strip-tillage decreases soil nitrogen availability and increases the potential for N losses in a cover cropped organic system

Carolyn Lowry, G. Robertson, Daniel Brainard, 2021, Agro-Ecosystems on p. 107524

Has agricultural intensification impacted maize root traits and rhizosphere interactions related to organic N acquisition?

Jennifer E. Schmidt, Amisha Poret-Peterson, Carolyn J. Lowry, Amélie C.M. Gaudin, 2020, AoB PLANTS

Most-Cited Papers

Mustard cover crops for biomass production and weed suppression in the great lakes region

Thomas Björkman, Carolyn Lowry, Joseph W. Shail, Daniel C. Brainard, Daniel S. Anderson, John B. Masiunas, 2015, Journal of Production Agriculture on p. 1235-1249

Weed control through crop plant manipulations

Carolyn J. Lowry, Richard G. Smith, 2018, on p. 73-96

Organic farmer perceptions of reduced tillage: A Michigan farmer survey

Carolyn J. Lowry, Daniel C. Brainard, 2019, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems on p. 103-115

Strip-intercropping of rye–vetch mixtures affects biomass, carbon/ nitrogen ratio, and spatial distribution of cover crop residue

C. J. Lowry, D. C. Brainard, 2016, Journal of Production Agriculture on p. 2433-2443

An optimized rhizobox protocol to visualize root growth and responsiveness to localized nutrients

Jennifer E. Schmidt, Carolyn Lowry, Amelie C.M. Gaudin, 2018, Journal of Visualized Experiments

Effects of expanding functional trait diversity on productivity and stability in cultivar mixtures of perennial ryegrass

Carolyn J. Lowry, Sidney C. Bosworth, Sarah C. Goslee, Richard J. Kersbergen, Fredric W. Pollnac, R. Howard Skinner, Nicholas D. Warren, Richard G. Smith, 2020, Agro-Ecosystems on p. 106691

Strip intercropping of rye-vetch mixtures: Effects on weed growth and competition in strip-tilled sweet corn

Carolyn J. Lowry, Daniel C. Brainard, 2019, Weed Science on p. 114-125

Strip-tillage decreases soil nitrogen availability and increases the potential for N losses in a cover cropped organic system

Carolyn Lowry, G. Robertson, Daniel Brainard, 2021, Agro-Ecosystems on p. 107524

Has agricultural intensification impacted maize root traits and rhizosphere interactions related to organic N acquisition?

Jennifer E. Schmidt, Amisha Poret-Peterson, Carolyn J. Lowry, Amélie C.M. Gaudin, 2020, AoB PLANTS

Rye–vetch spatial arrangement and tillage: Impacts on soil nitrogen and sweet corn roots

C. J. Lowry, D. C. Brainard, 2017, Journal of Production Agriculture on p. 1013-1023

News Articles Featuring Carolyn Lowry

Feb 04, 2026

Helping soil microbes kill weed seeds to aid organic farmers

To better equip organic farmers to control weeds, a team of Penn State agricultural scientists received a four-year, $935,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study how promoting soil microbes to infect and kill weed seeds might reduce problematic weed species.

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Jan 10, 2025

College of Ag Sciences graduate students receive research grant awards

Thirteen graduate students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences received research grants recently awarded by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Feb 28, 2024

Three Ecology students receive Ag Sci awards

A trio of graduate researchers from the Huck's Ecology program were recently honored by the College of Agricultural Sciences.

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Oct 17, 2023

USDA grant awarded for study on soil health, weed control in organic operations

A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded to Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences will support research on soil health and weed suppression in organic farming.

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Sep 12, 2023

USDA grant to fund research on ‘farm tuning’ cover crop mixtures

With a new $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Carolyn Lowry will lead a research team designing cover crop mixtures that are more effective at providing an array of ecosystem services.

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Aug 21, 2023

Cover crops project provides fertile ground for USDA graduate fellows

Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences graduate students received more predoctoral fellowships from the U.S. Department of Agriculture than any other institution over the last five years.

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