Natalie Thompson, Rekha Kandaswamy, Aliya Fathima Anwar, Jane Polston, Garry Sunter, Wayne R Curtis A geminivirus attenuation vector for crop protection using episomal plant gene therapy. Scientific Reports 15(1):25085. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09038-3 . D Samson, NS Thompson, VR Sheri, SV Rudrabhatla, WR Curtis
Expression of a multigene mushroom luciferin biosynthesis pathway as a pseudo-polycistron in plants. Scientific reports 15 (1), 25385, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98717-2
Natalie S Thompson, Aliya Fathima Anwar, David Krum, Michael Ream, Eva Shouse, Zachary Weston, Yun-Ru Chen, Aisa Sam, Michihito Deguchi, Samwel M Kariuki, Sairam V Rudrabhatla, Wayne R Curtis. Transgenic tomato strategies targeting whitefly eggs from apoplastic or ovary-directed proteins BMC plant biology 24 (1), 1262, 2024. Natalie S Thompson, David Krum, Yun-Ru Chen, Mariela C Torres, Marena A Trauger, Dalton Strike, Zachary Weston, Jane E Polston, Wayne R Curtis Enabling biocontained plant virus transmission studies through establishment of an axenic whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) colony on plant tissue culture. Scientific Reports, 14(1),30074, 2024. Michihito Deguchi, Seema Dhir, Shobha D. Potlakayala, Sarwan Dhir, Wayne R. Curtis, Sairam V. Rudrabhatla (2022) In planta female flower agroinfiltration alters the cannabinoid composition in industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:921970 (July 2022) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.921970 Trauger M,, April Hile A., Sreenivas K., Shouse E.-M., Bhatt J., Lai T, Mohandass R., Tripathi L., Ogden A.J., Wayne R Curtis. CO2 supplementation eliminates sugar-rich media requirement for plant propagation using a simple inexpensive temporary immersion photobioreactor, Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture, 150:57–71 (April 2022 ). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-021-02210-3 Thompson N., Waterton N., Armaou A., Polston J.E., Wayne R. Curtis, Establishing an inexpensive, space efficient colony of Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 utilizing modeling and feedback control principles, Journal of Applied Entomology, 146(5): 648-658, March 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jen.12995 Rajathirajan Siva Dharshini , Ranjani Manickam, Wayne R Curtis, Pasupathi Rathinasabapathi, Mohandass Ramya, Genome analysis of alginate synthesizing Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain SW1 isolated from degraded seaweed. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 114(12):2205-2217, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s10482-021-01673-w. (ScholarSphere accepted Manuscript URL). Dušan Veličković, Rosalie K. Chu, Corinna Henkel, Annika Nyhuis, Nannan Tao, Jennifer E. Kyle, Joshua N. Adkins, Christopher R. Anderton, Vanessa Paurus, Kent Bloodsworth, Lisa M. Bramer, Dale S. Cornett, Wayne R. Curtis, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson. Preserved and variable spatial‐chemical changes of lipids across tomato leaves in response to central vein wounding reveals potential origin of linolenic acid in signal transduction cascade. Plant Environment Interactions. 2(1): 28-35, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10038 Deguchi M, Kane S, Potlakayala S, George H, Proano R, Sheri V, Curtis WR, Rudrabhatla S. Metabolic Engineering Strategies of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.): A Brief Review of the Advances and Challenges. Frontiers in Plant Sci. 2020 Dec 8;11:580621. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.580621.Aaron J. Ogden, Wardatou Boukari, Alba Nava, Natalia Lucinda, Garry Sunter, Wayne R. Curtis, Joshua N. Adkins and Jane E. Polston. Characterization of Local and Systemic Impact of Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Feeding and Whitefly-Transmitted Tomato Mottle Virus Infection on Tomato Leaves by Comprehensive Proteomics. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(19), 7241; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197241 Aaron J. Ogden, Jishnu J. Bhatt, Heather M. Brewer, Jack Kintigh, Samwel M. Kariuki, Sairam Rudrabhatla, Joshua N. Adkins and Wayne R. Curtis. Phloem Exudate Protein Profiles during Drought and Recovery Reveal Abiotic Stress Responses in Tomato Vasculature. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(12), 4461; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21124461Shires ME, Florez SL, Lai TS, Curtis WR (2017) Inducible somatic embryogenesis in Theobroma cacao achieved using the DEX-activatable transcription factor-glucocorticoid receptor fusion. Biotechnol Lett. 2017 Jul 31. doi: 10.1007/s10529-017-2404-4Wang, J., Rosov, T., Wensel, P., McGowen, J., Curtis, W.R. (2016) A preliminary implementation of metabolic-based pH control to reduce CO2 usage in outdoor flat-panel photobioreactor cultivation of Nannochloropsis oceanica microalgae. Algal Research, 18: 288-295. DOI:10.1016/j.algal.2016.07.001Devi, S.G., Fathima, A.A., Iyappan, S., Curtis, W.R., Ramya, M. (2016) Expression and characterization of alkaline protease from the metagenomic library of tannery activated sludge. Journal of Bioscience & Bioengineering. 122(6): 694-700. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2016.05.012.Florez, Sergio L., Curtis, Matthew S., Shaw, Sydney E., Hamaker, Nathaniel K, Larsen, Jeffrey S. Curtis Wayne R. (2016) A Temporary Immersion Plant Propagation Bioreactor with Decoupled Gas and Liquid Flows. Biotechnology Progress, 32(2): 337-345. DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2221) Muzika, William A., Khan, Nymul E., Jackson, Lauren M., Winograd, Nicolas, Curtis WR. (2016) Production of Biofuel-related Isoprenoids Derived from Botryococcus braunii Algae, Chapter 187. In: Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols (McGenity, T.J., Timmis, K.N., Nogales, B., eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45179-3.Erbakan, M., Curtis, B., Nixon, T., Kumar, M., Curtis, W.(2015) Advancing Rhodobacter sphaeroides as a platform for expression of functional membrane proteins. Protein Expression and Purification, 115:109-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2015.05.012. Epub 2015 May 22.Devi, S.D., Fathima, A.A., Radha, S., Arunraj, R., Curtis, W.R., Ramya, M. (2015) A rapid and economical method for efficient DNA extraction from diverse soils suitable for metagenomic applications. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132441Tolonen, A. Zuroff, T., Mohandass, R. Boutard, M., Cerisy, T., Curtis, W. (2015) Physiology, genomic, and pathway engineering of an ethanol-tolerant strain of Clostridium phytofermentans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 15;81(16):5440-5448, doi: 10.1128/AEM.00619-15.Nybo, SE, Khan, N, Woolston, BM, Curtis, WR. (2015) Metabolic engineering in chemolothoautotrophic hosts for the production of fuels and chemicals. Metabolic Engineering, 30: 105–120 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2015.04.008. Florez, Sergio L., Erwin, Rachel L., Maximova, Siela N., Guiltinan, Mark J., and Curtis, Wayne R. (2015) Enhanced Somatic embryogenesis in Theobroma cacao using the homologous BABYBOOM transcription factor. BMC Plant Biology. DOI:10.1186/s12870-015-0479-4Wang, Jun, Curtis, Wayne R. (2015) Proton stochiometric imbalance during algae photosynthetic growth on various nitrogen sources: Toward metabolic pH control. Journal of Applied Phycology. DOI: 10.1007/s10811-015-0551-3Khan, Nymul. Nybo, Eric S., Chappell, Joe, Curtis, Wayne R. (2015) Triterpene hydrocarbon production engineered into a metabolically versatile host - Rhodobacter capsulatus. Biotechnology & Bioengineering. 112(8):1523-32, DOI: 10.1002/bit.25573.Kristin M. O'Neill, Anne M. Schilthuis, Calvin A. Leiter, Kurt M. Neihaus, Nicole A. Judge, Edda Twiddy, Alison D. O'Brien, Curtis, W.R. (2015) Scale-up of transgenic tobacco cells that express intimin of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coil 0157:H7 for use as a transitional platform for an oral cattle vaccine. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant. 51(3): 315-323. DOI: 10.1007/s11627-015-9673-1Khan NE, Myers JA, Amalie L. Tuerk AL, Curtis WR (2014) A process economic assessment of hydrocarbon biofuels production using chemoautotrophic organisms, Bioresource Technology, 172:201–211, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.08.118.Pena-Francesch, A., Florez, S., Jung, H., Sebastian, A., Albert, I., Curtis, W. and Demirel, M. C. (2014), Materials Fabrication from Native and Recombinant Thermoplastic Squid Proteins. Adv. Funct. Mater.. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201401940 Maximova SN, Florez S, Xiangling Shen X, Niemenak N, Zhang Y, Curtis WR, Guiltinan MJ (2014) Genome-wide analysis reveals divergent patterns of gene expression during zygotic and somatic embryo maturation of Theobroma cacao L., the chocolate tree. BMC Plant Biology 2014, 14:185 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-14-185.Zuroff TR, Weimin Gu W, Fore RL, Leschine SB, Curtis WR (2014) Insights into Clostridium phytofermentans biofilm formation: aggregation, micro-colony development and the role of extracellular DNA, Microbiology, 160(6): 1134-1143. Curtis WR, Curtis MS (2014) Biomass-2-Energy, Chapter 3, In: Systems Engineering for Clean and Renewable Energy Manufacturing in Europe and Asia, NSF sponsored Report, WTEC. (Full Report on Web; http://wtec.org/SEEM/) Erbakan M, Shen Y-x, Butler PJ, Grelakowski M, Kumar M, Curtis WR (2014) Molecular cloning, overexpression and characterization of a novel water channel protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. PLoS1, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086830Khatri W, Hendrix R, Niehaus T, Chappell J, Curtis WR (2013) Hydrocarbon Production in High Density Botryococcus braunii Race B Continuous Culture, Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 111 (3), 493-503doi:10.1002/bit.25126Zuroff TR, Salvador Barri Xiques SB, Curtis WR (2013) Consortia-mediated bioprocessing of cellulose to ethanol with a symbiotic Clostridium phytofermentans/yeast co-culture. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 6:59 doi:10.1186/1754-6834-6-59Myers JA, Curtis BS, Curtis WR (2013) Improving accuracy of cell and chromophore concentration measurements using optical density. BMC Biophysics 2013, 6:4, 1-16. Scherholz ML, Curtis WR. (2013) Achieving pH control in microalgal cultures through fed-batch addition of stoichiometrically-balanced growth media. BMC Biotechnol. 13(1):39, 1-16.Johnson, Ryan, Khatri, W., Curtis, W. (Calyx Bioprocess Technology, LLC., Port Royal, PA) SBIR Phase I: Hydro-ThermAlgae, Photobioreactor for Minimal Water Loss. Final Proposal [not accepted] Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation; 2012 Sep. IIP-Small Business Phase I. Larsen, J.S.; Curtis W.R. (2012) RNA viral vectors for improved Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression of heterologous proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana cell suspensions and hairy roots. BMC Biotechnology 2012, 12:21.Zuroff, Trevor, Curtis, WR. (2012) Developing symbiotic consortia for lignocellulosic biofuel production. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2012 Feb ;93(4):1423-35. Epub 2012 Jan 26 Doi: 10.1007/s00253-011-3762-9Woolston BM, Schlagnhaufer C, Wilkinson J, Larsen J, Shi Z, Mayer K, Waters D, Curtis W, Romaine C (2011) Long-Distance Translocation of Protein during Morphogenesis of the Fruiting Body in the Filamentous Fungus, Agaricus bisporus. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28412, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028412