Robert L Last

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2014-2024
Publications (10 Years): 32

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Michigan State University

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Affiliation History

Michigan State University

United States

Barnett Rosenberg Professor :: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Plant Biology

Publications

Rachel E Kerwin, Jaynee E Hart, Paul D Fiesel, Yann-Ru Lou, Pengxiang Fan, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster. Science advances 10 (17) (2024)
Rachel E Kerwin, Jaynee E Hart, Paul D Fiesel, Yann-Ru Lou, Pengxiang Fan, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster. Science advances 10 (17) (2024)
Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Xingxing Li, Alan W Bowsher, Robert L Last, Ashley Shade
Disentangling plant- and environment-mediated drivers of active rhizosphere bacterial community dynamics during short-term drought. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Xingxing Li, Alan W Bowsher, Robert L Last, Ashley Shade
Disentangling plant- and environment-mediated drivers of active rhizosphere bacterial community dynamics during short-term drought. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Paul D Fiesel, Rachel E Kerwin, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Trading acyls and swapping sugars: metabolic innovations in Solanum trichomes. Plant physiology (2024)
Paul D Fiesel, Rachel E Kerwin, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Trading acyls and swapping sugars: metabolic innovations in Solanum trichomes. Plant physiology (2024)
Rachel E Kerwin, Jaynee E Hart, Paul D Fiesel, Yann-Ru Lou, Pengxiang Fan, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster. Science advances 10 (17) (2024)
Xingxing Li, Ming-Yi Chou, Gregory M Bonito, Robert L Last
Anti-fungal bioactive terpenoids in the bioenergy crop switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) may contribute to ecotype-specific microbiome composition. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Paul D Fiesel, Rachel E Kerwin, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Trading acyls and swapping sugars: metabolic innovations in Solanum trichomes. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Craig A Schenck, Thilani M Anthony, MacKenzie Jacobs, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Natural variation meets synthetic biology: Promiscuous trichome-expressed acyltransferases from Nicotiana. Plant physiology 190 (1) (2022)
Paul D Fiesel, Hannah M Parks, Robert L Last, Cornelius S Barry
Fruity, sticky, stinky, spicy, bitter, addictive, and deadly: evolutionary signatures of metabolic complexity in the Solanaceae. Natural product reports 39 (7) (2022)
Kira J Tiedge, Xingxing Li, Amy T Merrill, Danielle Davisson, Yuxuan Chen, Ping Yu, Dean Joseph Tantillo, Robert L Last, Philipp Zerbe
Comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics reveal specialized metabolite drought stress responses in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). The New phytologist 236 (4) (2022)
Xingxing Li, Saurav J Sarma, Lloyd W Sumner, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Switchgrass Metabolomics Reveals Striking Genotypic and Developmental Differences in Specialized Metabolic Phenotypes. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 70 (26) (2022)
Bryan J Leong, Steven M Hurney, Paul D Fiesel, Thilani M Anthony, Gaurav D Moghe, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Identification of BAHD acyltransferases associated with acylinositol biosynthesis in Solanum quitoense (naranjilla). Plant direct 6 (6) (2022)
Yann-Ru Lou, Thilani M Anthony, Paul D Fiesel, Rachel E Arking, Elizabeth M Christensen, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
It happened again: Convergent evolution of acylglucose specialized metabolism in black nightshade and wild tomato. Science advances 7 (46) (2021)
Saleh Alseekh, Itai Ofner, Zhongyuan Liu, Sonia Osorio, José G Vallarino, Robert L Last, Dani Zamir, Takayuki Tohge, Alisdair Robert Fernie
Quantitative trait loci analysis of seed-specialized metabolites reveals seed-specific flavonols and differential regulation of glycoalkaloid content in tomato. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology 103 (6) (2020)
Bryan J Leong, Steven M Hurney, Paul D Fiesel, Gaurav D Moghe, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Specialized Metabolism in a Nonmodel Nightshade: Trichome Acylinositol Biosynthesis. Plant physiology 183 (3) (2020)
Daniel B Lybrand, Thilani M Anthony, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
An Integrated Analytical Approach Reveals Trichome Acylsugar Metabolite Diversity in the Wild Tomato Solanum pennellii. Metabolites 10 (10) (2020)
Pengxiang Fan, Peipei Wang, Yann-Ru Lou, Bryan J Leong, Bethany M Moore, Craig A Schenck, Rachel Combs, Pengfei Cao, Federica Brandizzi, Shin-Han Shiu, Robert L Last
Evolution of a plant gene cluster in Solanaceae and emergence of metabolic diversity. eLife 9 (2020)
Bryan J Leong, Daniel B Lybrand, Yann-Ru Lou, Pengxiang Fan, Anthony L Schilmiller, Robert L Last
Evolution of metabolic novelty: A trichome-expressed invertase creates specialized metabolic diversity in wild tomato. Science advances 5 (4) (2019)
Craig A Schenck, Robert L Last
Location, location! cellular relocalization primes specialized metabolic diversification. The FEBS journal 287 (7) (2019)
Bethany M Moore, Peipei Wang, Pengxiang Fan, Bryan J Leong, Craig A Schenck, John P Lloyd, Melissa D Lehti-Shiu, Robert L Last, Eran Pichersky, Shin-Han Shiu
Robust predictions of specialized metabolism genes through machine learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (6) (2019)
Robert L Last
Put on Your Sunscreen: The Birth of Arabidopsis Abiotic Stress Genetics. The Plant cell 31 (7) (2019)
Wei Li, Daniel B Lybrand, Fei Zhou, Robert L Last, Eran Pichersky
Pyrethrin Biosynthesis: The Cytochrome P450 Oxidoreductase CYP82Q3 Converts Jasmolone To Pyrethrolone. Plant physiology 181 (3) (2019)
Pengfei Cao, Sang-Jin Kim, Anqi Xing, Craig A Schenck, Lu Liu, Nan Jiang, Jie Wang, Robert L Last, Federica Brandizzi
Homeostasis of branched-chain amino acids is critical for the activity of TOR signaling in Arabidopsis. eLife 8 (2019)
Pengxiang Fan, Abigail M Miller, Xiaoxiao Liu, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Evolution of a flipped pathway creates metabolic innovation in tomato trichomes through BAHD enzyme promiscuity. Nature communications 8 (1) (2017)
Anqi Xing, Robert L Last
A Regulatory Hierarchy of the Arabidopsis Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolic Network. The Plant cell 29 (6) (2017)
Haiyang Xu, Gaurav D Moghe, Gaurav D Moghe, Anthony L Schilmiller, Cornelius S Barry, Robert L Last, Eran Pichersky
Coexpression Analysis Identifies Two Oxidoreductases Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Monoterpene Acid Moiety of Natural Pyrethrin Insecticides in Tanacetum cinerariifolium. Plant physiology 176 (1) (2017)
Jun Liu, Robert L Last
A chloroplast thylakoid lumen protein is required for proper photosynthetic acclimation of plants under fluctuating light environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (38) (2017)
Gaurav D Moghe, Bryan J Leong, Steven M Hurney, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Evolutionary routes to biochemical innovation revealed by integrative analysis of a plant-defense related specialized metabolic pathway. eLife 6 (2017)
Anthony L Schilmiller, Karin Gilgallon, Banibrata Ghosh, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Acylsugar Acylhydrolases: Carboxylesterase-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Acylsugars in Tomato Trichomes. Plant physiology 170 (3) (2016)
Cheng Peng, Cheng Peng, Melissa D Lehti-Shiu, Robert L Last, Shin-Han Shiu
Utility and Limitations of Using Gene Expression Data to Identify Functional Associations. PLoS computational biology 12 (12) (2016)
Gaurav D Moghe, Robert L Last
Something Old, Something New: Conserved Enzymes and the Evolution of Novelty in Plant Specialized Metabolism. Plant physiology 169 (3) (2015)
Jing Ning, Gaurav D Moghe, Bryan J Leong, Jeongwoon Kim, Itai Ofner, Zhenzhen Wang, Christopher Adams, Arthur Daniel Jones, Dani Zamir, Robert L Last
A Feedback-Insensitive Isopropylmalate Synthase Affects Acylsugar Composition in Cultivated and Wild Tomato. Plant physiology 169 (3) (2015)
Anthony L Schilmiller, Gaurav D Moghe, Pengxiang Fan, Banibrata Ghosh, Jing Ning, Arthur Daniel Jones, Robert L Last
Functionally divergent alleles and duplicated Loci encoding an acyltransferase contribute to acylsugar metabolite diversity in Solanum trichomes. The Plant cell 27 (4) (2015)
Cheng Peng, Shin-Han Shiu, Robert L Last
The Impact of the Branched-Chain Ketoacid Dehydrogenase Complex on Amino Acid Homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Plant physiology 169 (3) (2015)
Rikard Fristedt, Andrei Herdean, Crysten E Blaby-Haas, Fikret Mamedov, Sabeeha S Merchant, Robert L Last, Björn Lundin
PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN33, a protein conserved in the plastid lineage, is associated with the chloroplast thylakoid membrane and provides stability to photosystem II supercomplexes in Arabidopsis. Plant physiology 167 (2) (2014)
Jeongwoon Kim, Yuki Matsuba, Jing Ning, Anthony L Schilmiller, Dagan Hammar, A Daniel Jones, Eran Pichersky, Robert L Last
Analysis of natural and induced variation in tomato glandular trichome flavonoids identifies a gene not present in the reference genome. The Plant cell 26 (8) (2014)

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