Rachel Knapp, Braidon Johnson, Lucas Busta
Nicole Babineau, Le Thanh Dien Nguyen, Davis Mathieu, Clint McCue, Nicholas Schlecht, Taylor Abrahamson, Bjorn Hamberger, Lucas Busta
A Molecular Representation Learning Approach To Recommend Reference Frame For Natural Products Pathway Discovery And Structural Diversity Tasks
Plant Communications, 2025.
Lucas Busta, Alan R. Oyler
Small Language Model Enhances Literature Processing Workflow: An Example With Plants And Their Secondary Metabolites
Quantitative Plant Biology, 2025.
Madison Larson, Marshall Hampton, Lucas Busta
Wax Bloom Dynamics On Sorghum Bicolor Under Different Environmental Stresses Reveal Signaling Modules Associated With Wax Production
Physiologia Plantarum, 2025.
Emma Fitzgibbons, Jacob Lastovich, Samuel Scott, Nicole Groth, Amanda L Grusz, Lucas Busta
Herbarium Specimens As Tools For Exploring The Evolution Of Fatty Acid-Derived Natural Products In Plants
The Plant Journal, 2024.
Lucas Busta, Drew Hall, Braidon Johnson, Madelyn Schaut, Caroline M. Hanson, Anika Gupta, Megan Gundrum, Yuer Wang, Hiroshi A. Maeda.
Mapping Of Specialized Metabolite Terms Onto A Plant Phylogeny Using Text Mining And Large Language Models
The Plant Journal, 2024.
Dien Nguyen, Nicole Groth, Kylie Mondloch, Edgar B. Cahoon, Keith Jones, Lucas Busta.
Project ChemicalBlooms: Collaborating with Citizen Scientists to Survey the Chemical Diversity and Phylogenetic Distribution of Plant Epicuticular Wax Blooms
Plant Direct, 2024.
Guillaume Chomicki, Gustavo Burin, Lucas Busta, Jedrzej Gozdzik, Reinhard Jetter, Beth Mortimer, Ulrike Bauer
Convergence In Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Reveals A Mechanism For Composite Trait Evolution
Science, 2024.
Alex H. Crum, Lisa Philander, Lucas Busta, Ya Yang
Traditional Medicinal Use Is Linked With Apparency, Not Specialized Metabolite Profiles In The Order Caryophyllales
American Journal of Botany, 2024.
Jianfeng Yang, Lucas Busta, Reinhard Jetter, Yingpeng Sun, Tianyu Wang, Wenlan Zhang, Yu Ni, and Yanjun Guo
Diversifed Chemical Profles Of Cuticular Wax On Alpine Meadow Plants Of The Qinghai‑tibet Plateau
Planta, 2023.
Lucas Busta, Ismail Dweikat, Shirley J. Sato, Haolin Qu, Yong Xue, Bangjun Zhou, Lu Gan, Bin Yu, Thomas E. Clemente, Edgar B. Cahoon, Chi Zhang
Chemical And Genetic Variation In Feral Cannabis Sativa Populations Across The Nebraska Climate Gradient
Phytochemistry, 2022.
Samuel Scott, Edgar B. Cahoon, and Lucas Busta*
Variation on a Theme: The Structures and Biosynthesis of Specialized Fatty Acid Natural Products in Plants
The Plant Journal, 2022.
Lucas Busta*, Kent D Chapman, and Edgar B Cahoon*
Better Together: Protein Partnerships for Lineage-Specific Oil Accumulation
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022.
Patrícia Santos*, Lucas Busta, Won Cheol Yim, Edgar B Cahoon, Dylan K Kosma*
Structural Diversity, Biosynthesis, and Function of Plant Falcarin-type Polyacetylenic Lipids
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2022.
Craig Schenck†* and Lucas Busta†
Using interdisciplinary, phylogeny-guided approaches to understand the evolution of plant metabolism
Plant Molecular Biology, 2021.
Xuefeng Zhang, Yu Ni, Daixiang Xu, Lucas Busta, Yu Xiao, Reinhard Jetter, and Yanjun Guo*
Integrative analysis of the cuticular lipidome and transcriptome of Sorghum bicolor reveals cultivar differences in drought tolerance
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2021.
Lucas Busta*, Elizabeth Schmitz, Dylan Kosma, James Schnable, and Edgar B. Cahoon*
A co-opted steroid synthesis gene, maintained in sorghum but not maize, is associated with a divergence in leaf wax chemistry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
Lucas Busta and Sabrina Russo
Enhancing interdisciplinary and systems thinking with an integrative plant chemistry module applied in diverse undergraduate course settings
Journal of Chemical Education, 2020.
Henry V. Jakubowski, Nicholas Bock, Lucas Busta, Matthew Pearce, Rebecca L. Roston, Zachery D. Shomo, Cassidy Terrell
Introducing climate change into the biochemistry and molecular biology curriculum
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2020.
Jovana V. Milić†, Andreas Ehnbom†, Mahlet Garedew†, Paulette Vincent-Ruz, Tracy H. Schloemer, Gregory K. Hodgson, Meagan S. Oakley, Koichi Sasaki, Subhash Chander, Marc-André Légaré, Cassandra E. Callmann, Aisha N. Bismillah, Dannie J.G.P. van Osch, Vanessa Sanchez, Nathan R.B. Boase, Dickson Mambwe, Connor W. Coley, Yuanxin Deng, Kerry N. Betz, Jesús Sanjosé-Orduna, Sean Natoli, Liang Zhang, Olga Bakulina, Ehsan Fereyduni, Jazmín Ciciolil Hilario-Martínez, Lucas Busta, Arianne Hunter, Yoonsu Park, and Farnaz Haidar Zadeh
The future of scientific leadership is interdisciplinary: the 2019 CAS Future Leaders share their vision
iSCIENCE, 2020. † co-first authors
Lucas Busta†, Olga Serra†, Ok Tae Kim, Marisa Molinas, Irene Peré-Fossoul, Mercè Figueras, and Reinhard Jetter
Oxidosqualene cyclases involved in the biosynthesis of triterpenoids in Quercus suber cork
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2020. † co-first authors
Gianfranco Diretto, Sarah Frusciante, Claudia Fabbri, Nicolas Schauer, Lucas Busta, Zhonghua Wang, Antonio J. Matas, Alessia Fiore, Jocelyn K.C. Rose, Alisdair R. Fernie, Reinhard Jetter, Benedetta Mattei, Jim Giovannoni, and Giovanni Giuliano
Manipulation of β‐carotene levels in tomato fruits results in increased ABA content and extended shelf‐life
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL, 2019
Tao Feng, Ya Yang, Lucas Busta, Edgar B. Cahoon, Hengchang Wang, and Shiyou Lü
Lineage specific gene radiations and positive selection on FAD2 underlie the origin of polyacetylene metabolism in campanulids
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 2019, 181(2): 714-728.
Lucas Busta, Won Yim, Evan William LaBrant, Peng Wang, Lindsey Grimes, Kiah Malyszka, John C. Cushman, Patricia Santos, Dylan K Kosma, and Edgar B. Cahoon
Identification of genes encoding enzymes catalyzing the early steps of carrot polyacetylene biosynthesis
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 2018, 178(4): 1507
Xiangjun Li, Alicen M. Teitgen, Asghar Shirani, Juan Ling, Lucas Busta, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Wei Zhang, Zaiyun Li, Kent D. Chapman, Diana Berman, Chunyu Zhang, Robert E. Minto and Edgar B. Cahoon
Discontinuous fatty acid elongation yields hydroxylated seed oil with improved function
NATURE PLANTS, 2018, 4(9): 711
Yanjun Guo, June Li, Lucas Busta, and Reinhard Jetter
Coverage and composition of cuticular waxes on the fronds of the temperate ferns Pteridium aquilinum, Cryptogramma crispa, Polypodium glycyrrhiza, Polystichum munitum and Gymnocarpium dryopteris
ANNALS OF BOTANY, 2018, 122(4): 555
Ok Tae Kim, Yurry Um, Mei Lan Jin, Young Chang Kim, Kyong Hwan Bang, Daniela Hegebarth, Lucas Busta, Radu Racovita, and Reinhard Jetter
A Novel Multifunctional C-23 Oxidase, CYP714E19, is Involved in Asiaticoside Biosynthesis
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, 2018, 59(6): 1200
Tongjun Sun, Lucas Busta, Qian Zhang, Pingtao Ding, Reinhard Jetter, and Yuelin Zhang
TGACG-BINDING FACTOR 1 (TGA1) and TGA4 regulate salicylic acid and pipecolic acid biosynthesis by modulating the expression of SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE DEFICIENT 1 (SARD1) and CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEIN 60g (CBP60g)
NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 2018, 217(1): 344
Lucas Busta and Reinhard Jetter
Moving beyond the ubiquitous: the diversity and biosynthesis of specialty compounds in plant cuticular waxes
PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS, 2017: 1-30.
Yanjun Guo†, Lucas Busta†, and Reinhard Jetter
Cuticular wax coverage and composition differ among organs of Taraxacum officinale
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, 2017, 115: 372. † co-first authors
Lucas Busta and Reinhard Jetter
Structure and biosynthesis of branched wax compounds on wild type and wax biosynthesis mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, 2017, 58(6): 1059
Lucas Busta†, Daniela Hegebarth†, Edward Kroc, and Reinhard Jetter
Changes in cuticular wax coverage and composition on developing Arabidopsis leaves are influenced by wax biosynthesis gene expression levels and trichome density
PLANTA, 2016, 245(2): 297. † co-first authors
Pingtao Ding†, Dmitrij Rekhter†, Yuli Ding†, Kirstin Feussner, Lucas Busta, Sven Haroth, Shaohua Xu, Xin Li, Reinhard Jetter, Ivo Feussner, and Yuelin Zhang
Characterization of a Pipecolic Acid Biosynthesis Pathway Required for Systemic Acquired Resistance
THE PLANT CELL, 2016, 28: 2603. † co-first authors
Lucas Busta, Jessica M. Budke, and Reinhard Jetter
Cuticular wax coverage on Funaria hygrometrica is similar to vascular plants, but wax composition differs between surfaces of the leafy gametophyte, calyptra, and sporophyte capsule
ANNALS OF BOTANY, 2016, 118(3): 551
Lucas Busta, Jessica M. Budke, and Reinhard Jetter