The evolutionary paths towards complexity: a metabolic perspective

Structure and Functions of the Bacterial Microbiota of Plants

(2013) Davide Bulgarelli et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Chemodiversity in Selaginella: a reference system for parallel and convergent metabolic evolution in terrestrial plants

(2013) Jing-Ke Weng et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Adaptive Mutations that Prevent Crosstalk Enable the Expansion of Paralogous Signaling Protein Families

(2012) Emily J. Capra et al.   CELL

The Rise of Chemodiversity in Plants

(2012) J.-K. Weng et al.   SCIENCE

Assembly of an Evolutionarily New Pathway for  -Pyrone Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

(2012) J.-K. Weng et al.   SCIENCE

Diminishing returns and tradeoffs constrain the laboratory optimization of an enzyme

(2012) Nobuhiko Tokuriki et al.   Nature Communications

Convergent Evolution in Plant Specialized Metabolism

(2011) Eran Pichersky et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters

(2011) Arren Bar-Even et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Divergent evolution of oxidosqualene cyclases in plants

(2011) Zheyong Xue et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Independent Recruitment of an O-Methyltransferase for Syringyl Lignin Biosynthesis in Selaginella moellendorffii

(2011) J.-K. Weng et al.   PLANT CELL

The family of terpene synthases in plants: a mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom

(2011) Feng Chen et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Evolution of the Eye

(2011) Trevor D. Lamb   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

The origin and evolution of lignin biosynthesis

(2010) Jing-Ke Weng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Convergent Evolution of Syringyl Lignin Biosynthesis via Distinct Pathways in the LycophyteSelaginellaand Flowering Plants

(2010) Jing-Ke Weng et al.   PLANT CELL

Over-expression of F5H in COMT-deficient Arabidopsis leads to enrichment of an unusual lignin and disruption of pollen wall formation

(2010) Jing-Ke Weng et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Protein Sectors: Evolutionary Units of Three-Dimensional Structure

(2009) Najeeb Halabi et al.   CELL

Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis

(2009) Thomas Vogt   Molecular Plant

Evolution of efficient pathways for degradation of anthropogenic chemicals

(2009) Shelley D Copley   Nature Chemical Biology

TrichOME: A Comparative Omics Database for Plant Trichomes

(2009) X. Dai et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Protein Dynamism and Evolvability

(2009) N. Tokuriki et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of a Novel Phenolic Pathway for Pollen Development

(2009) M. Matsuno et al.   SCIENCE

A Specialized Citric Acid Cycle Requiring Succinyl-Coenzyme A (CoA):Acetate CoA-Transferase (AarC) Confers Acetic Acid Resistance on the Acidophile Acetobacter aceti

(2008) E. A. Mullins et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Quantitative exploration of the catalytic landscape separating divergent plant sesquiterpene synthases

(2008) Paul E O'Maille et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Independent origins of syringyl lignin in vascular plants

(2008) J.-K. Weng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Caffeine and related purine alkaloids: Biosynthesis, catabolism, function and genetic engineering

(2007) Hiroshi Ashihara et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY