Olson, M. E., L. Trejo-Hernández, and W. Nouman. in preparation. Genetic variation in cultivated and putatively wild Moringa oleifera: the importance of proper species identification.
Fahey, J. W., and M. E. Olson. in preparation. Glucosinolate diversity in Moringa (Moringaceae).
Olson, M. E., J. A. Rosell, C. León, S. Zamora, A. Weeks, L. O. Alvarado-Cárdenas, N. I. Cacho, and J. Grant. 2013. Convergent vessel diameter-stem diameter scaling across five clades of New- and Old- World eudicots from desert to rain forest. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174(7):1062–1078. pdf
Olson, M. E. and J. W. Fahey. 2011. Moringa oleifera: un árbol multiusos para las zonas tropicales secas (Moringa oleifera: a multipurpose tree for the dry tropics). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82(4): 1071-1082. pdf
Olson, M. E. 2010. Moringaceae: Drumstick Family. Pp. 167-169 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 15+ vols. New York and Oxford. Vol. 7. pdf
Olson, M. E. 2007. Wood ontogeny as a model for studying heterochrony, with an example of paedomorphosis in Moringa (Moringaceae). Systematics and Biodiversity 5(2): 145–158. pdf
Olson, M. E. and J. Rosell. 2006. Using heterochrony to infer modularity in the evolution of stem diversity in Moringa (Moringaceae). Evolution 60 (4): 724–734. pdf
Olson, M. 2003. Developmental origins of floral bilateral symmetry in Moringaceae. American Journal of Botany 90(1): 49-71. pdf App. 1
Olson, M. E. 2002. Intergeneric relationships within the Caricaceae-Moringacecae clade (Brassicales), and potential morphological synapomorphies of the clade and its families. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163(1):51-65. pdf
Olson, M. E. 2002. Combining data from DNA sequences and morphology for a phylogeny of Moringaceae. Systematic Botany 27(1): 55-73. pdf
Olson, M. E., and S. Carlquist. 2001. Stem and root anatomical correlations with life form diversity, ecology, and systematics in Moringa (Moringaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135(4): 315-348. pdf
Olson, M. 2001. Stem and root anatomy of Moringa (Moringaceae). Haseltonia 8: 56-96.
Lianli, L., and M. E. Olson. 2001. Moringaceae. in Raven, P. H., I. Al-Shehbaz, and G. Zhu, eds. Flora of China vol. 8: 196. Missouri Botanical Garden Press.
Olson, M. E. 2001. Introduction to the Moringa Family. Pp. 11-28 in Fuglie, L. J., ed. The miracle tree: The multiple attributes of Moringa. Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands, and Church World Service, New York. (Second edition with revised chapter in press).
Olson, M. E., and S. G. Razafimandimbison. 2000. Moringa hildebrandtii: A tree extinct in the wild but preserved by indigenous horticultural practices in Madagascar. Adansonia sér. 3 22(2) 217-221. pdf