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  1. Convergent biosynthesis of insect molting hormones in plants

    Article • August 2026, openRxiv

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  2. Ancient origins of alkaloid biosynthesis in medicinal clubmosses

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  3. Vaccine-enhancing plant extract could be mass produced in yeast

    Article • Nature, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  4. Emerging functions within the enzyme families of plant alkaloid biosynthesis

    Article • Phytochemistry Reviews, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  5. Plant carbonic anhydrase-like enzymes in neuroactive alkaloid biosynthesis

    Article • Nature, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  6. Neofunctionalized carbonic anhydrases in the biosynthesis of neuroactive plant alkaloids

    Article • November 2022, openRxiv

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  7. Production of the plant hormone gibberellin by rhizobia increases host legume nodule size

    Article • The ISME Journal, April 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  8. Total Biosynthesis of the Tubulin-Binding Alkaloid Colchicine

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  9. A metabolic regulon reveals early and late acting enzymes in neuroactive Lycopodium alkaloid biosynthesis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  10. Publisher Correction: Discovery and engineering of colchicine alkaloid biosynthesis

    Article • Nature, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  11. Discovery and engineering of colchicine alkaloid biosynthesis

    Article • Nature, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  12. Unraveling a Tangled Skein: Evolutionary Analysis of the Bacterial Gibberellin Biosynthetic Operon

    Article • mSphere, June 2020, ASM Journals

    Professor Trevor C Charles, Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  13. Unraveling a tangled skein: Evolutionary analysis of the bacterial gibberellin biosynthetic operon

    Article • December 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Trevor C Charles, Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  14. A Third Class: Functional Gibberellin Biosynthetic Operon in Beta-Proteobacteria

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2018, Frontiers

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett, Professor Reuben J Peters

  15. Measuring active biosynthesis in plants with isotope labeling

    Article • AIChE Journal, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  16. Characterizing the enzyme that catalyzes the final step bacterial gibberellin biosynthesis

    Article • ACS Chemical Biology, February 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  17. Production of gibberellin, a plant hormone, by Xanthomonas oryzae, a bacterial pathogen of rice

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett, Jan Leach

  18. Insight into the mechanism of the ring contraction reaction in bacterial gibberellin biosynthesis

    Article • Organic Letters, November 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Reuben J Peters, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett

  19. A biosynthetic gene cluster in rhizobia is responsible for producing gibberellin phytohormones

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Reuben J Peters, Professor Trevor C Charles, Dr. Ryan Stephan Nett