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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
13865
World Ranking
6025
National Ranking
1834

Biology and Biochemistry

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70
Citations
14473
World Ranking
7147
National Ranking
3279

Reuben J. Peters publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reuben J. Peters sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 163 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Reuben J. Peters D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reuben J. Peters sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Reuben J. Peters is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans key subfields such as molecular biology, plant science, pharmacology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics include plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, natural product bioactivities and synthesis, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, plant gene expression analysis, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Frequently publishing in prominent venues, Peters has appeared multiple times in:

  • New Phytologist
  • Phytochemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • aBIOTECH

Coauthoring collaborations have been established most frequently with:

  • Juan Zhang
  • Meimei Xu
  • Luqi Huang
  • Meirong Jia
  • Jian Yang

Among selected recent publications are:

  • "Expansion within the CYP71D subfamily drives the heterocyclization of tanshinones synthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The honeysuckle genome provides insight into the molecular mechanism of carotenoid metabolism underlying dynamic flower coloration," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Origin and early evolution of the plant terpene synthase family," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genome of Tripterygium wilfordii and identification of cytochrome P450 involved in triptolide biosynthesis," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Interdependent evolution of biosynthetic gene clusters for momilactone production in rice," 2020, The Plant Cell

In 2015, Peters was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Two rings in them all: The labdane-related diterpenoids

    Reuben J. Peters

  • Full-length transcriptome sequences and splice variants obtained by a combination of sequencing platforms applied to different root tissues of Salvia miltiorrhiza and tanshinone biosynthesis.

    Zhichao Xu;Reuben J. Peters;Jason Weirather;Hongmei Luo

  • CYP76AH1 catalyzes turnover of miltiradiene in tanshinones biosynthesis and enables heterologous production of ferruginol in yeasts.

    Juan Guo;Yongjin J. Zhou;Matthew L. Hillwig;Ye Shen

  • Terpenoid synthase structures: a so far incomplete view of complex catalysis

    Yang Gao;Richard B. Honzatko;Reuben J. Peters

  • Analysis of the Genome Sequence of the Medicinal Plant Salvia miltiorrhiza.

    Haibin Xu;Jingyuan Song;Hongmei Luo;Yujun Zhang

  • Biosynthesis, elicitation and roles of monocot terpenoid phytoalexins

    Eric A. Schmelz;Alisa Huffaker;James W. Sims;Shawn A. Christensen

  • To Gibberellins and Beyond! Surveying the Evolution of (Di)Terpenoid Metabolism

    Jiachen Zi;Sibongile Mafu;Reuben J. Peters

  • A functional genomics approach to tanshinone biosynthesis provides stereochemical insights.

    Wei Gao;Matthew L. Hillwig;Luqi Huang;Guanghong Cui

  • Investigation of terpene diversification across multiple sequenced plant genomes

    Alexander M. Boutanaev;Tessa Moses;Jiachen Zi;David R. Nelson

  • Increasing diterpene yield with a modular metabolic engineering system in E. coli: comparison of MEV and MEP isoprenoid precursor pathway engineering

    Dana Morrone;Luke Lowry;Mara K. Determan;David M. Hershey

  • Cytochrome P450 promiscuity leads to a bifurcating biosynthetic pathway for tanshinones

    Juan Guo;Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Yuan Cai;Yuan Cai;Ying Ma

  • Identification of syn-pimara-7,15-diene synthase reveals functional clustering of terpene synthases involved in rice phytoalexin/allelochemical biosynthesis.

    P. Ross Wilderman;Meimei Xu;Yinghua Jin;Robert M. Coates

  • CYP76M7 Is an ent-Cassadiene C11α-Hydroxylase Defining a Second Multifunctional Diterpenoid Biosynthetic Gene Cluster in Rice

    Sivakumar Swaminathan;Dana Morrone;Qiang Wang;D. Bruce Fulton

  • Rice Contains Two Disparate ent-Copalyl Diphosphate Synthases with Distinct Metabolic Functions

    Sladjana Prisic;Meimei Xu;P. Ross Wilderman;Reuben J. Peters

  • Uncovering the complex metabolic network underlying diterpenoid phytoalexin biosynthesis in rice and other cereal crop plants.

    Reuben J. Peters

  • Combining metabolomics and transcriptomics to characterize tanshinone biosynthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza

    Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Hai-Xi Sun;Hongbin Xiao;Guanghong Cui

  • Origin and early evolution of the plant terpene synthase family

    Unknown

  • Gibberellin biosynthesis in bacteria: Separate ent-copalyl diphosphate and ent-kaurene synthases in Bradyrhizobium japonicum

    Dana Morrone;Jacob Chambers;Luke Lowry;Gunjune Kim

  • The role of momilactones in rice allelopathy.

    Hisashi Kato-Noguchi;Reuben J. Peters

  • Functional identification of rice syn‐copalyl diphosphate synthase and its role in initiating biosynthesis of diterpenoid phytoalexin/allelopathic natural products

    Meimei Xu;Matthew L. Hillwig;Sladjana Prisic;Robert M. Coates

  • Following evolution's lead to a single residue switch for diterpene synthase product outcome.

    Meimei Xu;P. Ross Wilderman;Reuben J. Peters

  • A Modular Approach for Facile Biosynthesis of Labdane-Related Diterpenes

    Anthony Cyr;P. Ross Wilderman;Mara K. Determan;Reuben J. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Coates
Robert M. Coates University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rodney Croteau
Rodney Croteau Washington State University
Bing Yang
Bing Yang University of Missouri
Zhaohu Li
Zhaohu Li China Agricultural University
Dean J. Tantillo
Dean J. Tantillo University of California, Davis
Jingyuan Song
Jingyuan Song Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Shilin Chen
Shilin Chen Peking Union Medical College Hospital
David A. Agard
David A. Agard University of California, San Francisco
David G. Russell
David G. Russell Cornell University
Jiang Liu
Jiang Liu Sichuan Agricultural University

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