L. Busta

Phylochemical mapping of natural products onto the plant tree of life using text mining and large language models.

This paper maps natural products onto the plant tree of life using text mining and large language models, revealing lineage-specific distributions and demonstrating automation potential.

Project ChemicalBlooms: Collaborating with Citizen Scientists to Survey the Chemical Diversity and Phylogenetic Distribution of Plant Epicuticular Wax Blooms

The paper surveys plant epicuticular wax blooms using citizen scientists, finding lineage-specific chemical patterns and suggesting non-biosynthetic mechanisms for triterpenoid-rich blooms.

Traditional medicinal use is linked with apparency, not specialized metabolite profiles in the order Caryophyllales

The paper links traditional medicinal use with plant apparency rather than specialized metabolite profiles in Caryophyllales.

Herbarium specimens as tools for exploring the evolution of biosynthetic pathways to fatty acid-derived natural products in plants

This study uses herbarium specimens to analyze fatty acid-derived natural products in plants and finds whole genome duplication likely drove the evolution of two chemical pathways in monocots.