Bio 125 Plant Morphology and Physiology
Bio 127 Medicinal Botany
Bio 128 Plant Systematics
Utilizing genetic data (microsatellites) to inform conservation, species delimitation using geometric morphometrics and/or DNA sequence data, Using evolutionary relationships among plants (phylogeny) to inform plant classification and utilizing their predictive value, species distribution modeling of Philippine flora, Datamining of the Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines database
Obico JJ, Barcelona JF, Bonhomme V, Hale M, Pelser PB. Resolving the Tetrastigma loheri sl Species Complex (Vitaceae) in the Philippines: No Evidence for Recognizing More than One Species. Systematic Botany. 2021 Aug.
Salares VB, Obico JJ, Ormerod PA, Barcelona JF, Pelser PB. Taxonomic novelties from Cebu: a new species of Vaccinium (Ericaceae) and a new record of Phaius (Orchidaceae) for the Philippines. Phytotaxa. 2018;360(3):255-62.
Obico JJ, Ragragio EM. A survey of plants used as repellents against hematophagous insects by the Ayta people of Porac, Pampanga province, Philippines. Philipp Sci Lett. 2014;7(1):179-86.
Obico JJ, Alejandro GJ. A new species of Antherostele (Urophylleae, Rubioideae, Rubiaceae) from Mt. Sohoton, Samar, Philippines. Phytotaxa. 2013 May 29;104(1):53-7.
Ragragio EM, Zayas CN, Obico JJ. Useful plants of selected Ayta communities from Porac, Pampanga, twenty years after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Philipp J Sci. 2013;142(3):169-82.
Obico JJ, Alejandro GJ. Molecular phylogeny of the Philippine endemic genus Antherostele Bremek.(Rubiaceae) inferred from ITS data (nrDNA) and its conservation status.
Obico JJ, Bagay CK, Asencion AS, Agoo EM, Medecilo MM. Comparative Study of the Leaf Morphology of Epipremnum Schott and Rhaphidophora Hassk.(Araceae) in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology. 2007;1(1):15-26.
Bayas QE, Salvador SA, Ragragio EM, Obico JJ. Taxonomic Survey of Nickel Hyperaccumulating Plants in a Mining Site on Luzon Island, Philippines. hilippine Journal of Systematic Biology. 2018; 12(1):103-108.