• Plant Ecology
• Evolutionary Ecology
• Seed biology
• Ecophysiology

• Layman, N.C, M.T.R. Fernando, C.R. Herlihy, and J.W. Busch. 2017. Cost of selfing prevent the spread of self compatibility mutation that causes reproductive assurance. Evolution 71: 884–897.

• Norton, N.A., M.T.R. Fernando, C.R. Herlihy, and J.W. Busch. 2015. Reproductive character displacement shapes a spatially structured petal color polymorphism in Leavenworthia stylosa. Evolution 69: 1191-1207.

• Sanjeewani, B.L.G., K. Jayasuriya, M.T.R. Fernando, and J.W. Damunupola. 2013. Storage and germination treatments for seeds of an ornamentally important palm, Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 41: 273-277.

• Fernando, M.T.R., K.G. Jayasuriya, J.L Walck, and A. Wijetunga. 2013. Identifying dormancy class and storage behaviour of champak (Magnolia champaca) seeds, an important tropical timber tree. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 41: 141-146.

• Walck, J.L., M.S. Cofer, K.G. Jayasuriya, M.T.R. Fernando, and S.N. Hidayati. 2012. A temperate rhamnaceous species with a non-enclosing stone and without physical dormancy. Seed Science Research 22: 269-278.

• Jayasuriya, K.M.G.G., J.M. Baskin, C.C. Baskin, and M.T.R. Fernando. 2012. Variation in seed dormancy and storage behavior of three liana species of Derris (Fabaceae, Faboideae) in Sri Lanka and ecological implications. Research Journal of Seed Science 5: 1-18.

   

• Ecological interactions of Native species with their co-occurring invasive species
• Effect of climate change on early life history stages of montane forest species 

Plant Physiology, plant biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Conservation genetics, Cell biology