Dr. Rebecca Deramus Bray

Adjuct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Herbarium Manager

Education:

University of Alabama
B.S. 1961
M.S. 1963
Ph.D. 1970

Biol 221, Field Botany

Research Interests:

1.Cytology of Isoetes -- working with undergraduate and graduate students to obtain chromosome counts in species of quillworts.

2. Contribution to Atlas of the Virginia Flora --a long term project to note occurrence and distribution of native and naturalized vascular plants in Virginia--working with several field workers to verify plant identifications.

3. Cytological & Morphological Investigations in the genus Isoetes. Teaching graduate & undergraduate students techniques which are applicable to a variety of organisms in addition to Isoetes. Teaching them the process of scientific investigation, etc.

Selected Publications:

Knepper, D.A., Rebecca D. Bray, Surbala Chaudhary, Cynthia Caplen & Lytton J. Musselman. Battle at Passage Creek--Isoetes lacustris vs. I. tuckermanii. ASB Bulletin, 41(2), 1994.

Bray, R.D., Cynthia A. Caplen & Surbala Chaudhury. Cytological studies on southeastern quillworts (Isoetes). ASB Bulletin, 42(2). 1995.

Caplen, Cynthia A. Rebecca D. Bray, Lytton Musselman, & David Knepper. An unusual Isoetes from the Shenandoah Valley--A glacial relict? ASB Bulletin, 42(2). 1995.

Musselman, L.J. , D. A. Knepper, Rebecca D. Bray, Cynthia A. Caplan & Charles Ballou. Two new Isoetes hybrids from Virginia. ASB Bulletin, 42(2). 1995.

Lytton J. Musselman, David A. Knepper, Rebecca D. Bray, Cynthia A. Caplen & Charles Ballou. A new hybrid from Virginia. Castanea 603: 245-254. Sept. 1995.

Bray, Rebecca D. & Lytton J. Musselman. Tetraploid quillworts of Virginia's Coastal Plain & their hybrids. ASB Bulletin, 43(2). 1996.

Musselman L.J., Rebecca D. Bray & David A. Knepper. Isoetes xbruntonii (Isoetes engelmannii X Isoetes hyemalis) a new hybrid quillwort from Virginia. American Fern Journal 86(1): 8-15. 1996.

Bray, Rebecca D. & Lytton J. Musselman. Autopolyploidy in southeastern quillworts. ASB Bulletin, 43(2). 1997.

Russell, Cameron L. & Rebecca D. Bray. A comparative study of Isoetes boomii and I. georgiana. ASB Bulletin, Vol. 44(2). 1997.

Musselman,L.J.,R.D. Bray, D.A.Knepper. Isoetes xcarltaylorii (Isoetes acadiensis X Isoetes engelmannii),a new interspecific quillwort hybrid from the Chesapeake Bay. Canadian Journal of Botany 75(2). 1997.

Heafner, K.D, R. D. Bray and L. J. Musselman. Review of Southeastern Quillworts, AIBS Quillwort Symposium (Invited); Montreal, Canada. August, 1997.

Bray, Rebecca D. Colonial QuillwortBA new species of Isoetes from York County, Virginia. ASB Bulletin, 46(2). 1999.

Heafner, Kerry D. & R. D. Bray. Distribution of Isoetes virginica in Virginia. Noteworthy Collections, Castanea 65(1): 83-84. March, 2000.

Musselman, L.J., W. Carl Taylor and Rebecca D. Bray. Isoetes mattaponica (Isoetaceae), a New Diploid Quillwort from Freshwater Tidal Marshes of Virginia. Novon 11: 200-204. 2001.

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