Publications

When it comes to interdisciplinary collaboration, the titles of GLBRC publications speak for themselves. Each new year of operation has seen more publications from multiple labs that span our research themes, accelerating the Center's production of the basic research that generates technology to convert cellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels and bioproducts.
Year Publication Keywords
2026
Aboagye, E.A. & Maravelias, C.T. "Energy utilization strategies in lignocellulosic biorefineries." RSC Sustainability DOI: 10.1039/D6SU00050A, (2026). [DOI: 10.1039/D6SU00050A]
2026
Ahire, J.P., Bergman, R., Runge, T., Iossifov, D.A., Bhattacharyya, D., Brown, T. & Wang, J. "Evaluating CO2 mitigation strategies in SAF biorefineries: techno-economic and life cycle analysis." Journal of Cleaner Production 563, 148473+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.148473]
2026
Rolón, B.A., Kristy, B., Shade, A., Stopnisek, N., Lebeis, S.L., Howe, A. & Benucci, G.M.N. "BRCore: an R package implementing flexible selection of core taxa using contribution to Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and neutral model fitting." Microbiology Resource Announcements DOI: 10.1128/mra.00251-26, e00251–26+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.00251-26]
2026
Askenasy, I., Myers, K.S. & Kiley, P.J. "Transcriptomic data sets examining several stress responses in Zymomonas mobilis strains." Microbiology Resource Announcements 15,4, e01279–25+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.01279-25]
2026
Basyal, B., Li, X., Pargulski, V., Fu, X., Nightingale, N.M., Overmyer, K.A., Coon, J.J., Zhang, Y., Benucci, G.M.N., Last, R.L., et al. "Developmentally-specific physiological and metabolic responses support drought resilience in switchgrass and constrains biofuel yield." Journal of Experimental Botany 77,6, 1888–1902+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf533]
2026
Bouille, A., Villard, C., Galati, G., Roumani, M., Fauvet, A., Grosjean, J., Hoengenaert, L., Boerjan, W., Ralph, J., Hilliou, F., et al. "Introducing furanocoumarin biosynthetic genes in tomato results in coumarins accumulation and impacts growth." Plant Science 367, 113106+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2026.113106]
2026
Chavez, C.M., Harrison, M.-C., Danis, T., Groenewald, M., Hittinger, C.T. & Rokas, A. "The macroevolution of filamentation morphology across the Saccharomycotina yeast subphylum." FEMS Yeast Research 26, foag001+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foag001]
2026
Dai, J., Chen, J., Lei, C., Falvo, G. & Robertson, P. "Estimating fine resolution shortwave broadband albedo of croplands from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data." Journal of Applied Meterology and Climatology 65,5, 651–663+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-25-0081.1]
2026
David, K.T., Horianopoulos, L., Goncalves, C., Steenwyk, J.L., Pontes, A., Goncalves, P., Hittinger, C.T., Pennell, M. & Rokas, A. "Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts." Current Biology 36,4, P1067–1075.E3+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.053]
2026
Dietrich, J.J., Dziedzic, M., Sun, J., Adusumilli, S.H., Goncalves, C., Hittinger, C.T. & Pfleger, B.F. "Engineering of 2-ketoacid decarboxylases for production of isobutanol and other fusel alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Biotechnology and Bioengineering 123,4, 1036–1049+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1002/bit.70150]
2026
Eckmann, J.B., Steinberger, A.L.E., Davies, M., Whelan, E., Myers, K.S., Robinson, M.L., Banta, A.B., Lal, P.B., Coon, J.J., Sato, T.K., et al. "Orthogonal chemical genomics approaches reveal genomic targets for increasing anaerobic chemical tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis." mSystems 11,1, e01001–25+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01001-25]
2026
Enuh, B.M., Myers, K.S., Ackman, P., Weiland, T., Beach, N., Young, M., Donohue, T.J. & Noguera, D.R. "Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from a nutrient removal plant at Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) that transitioned from high to low dissolved oxygen." Microbiology Resource Announcements 15,3, e01494–25+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.01494-25]
2026
Enuh, B.M., Myers, K.S., Bott, C., Klaus, S., McCullough, K., McIntosh, L., Beach, N., Young, M., Donohue, T.J. & Noguera, D.R. "Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from microbial communities in a biological nutrient removal plant operated at Hamptons Road Sanitation District (HRSD) with high and low dissolved oxygen conditions." Microbiology Resource Announcements 15,6, e01492–25+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.01492-25]
2026
Geers-Lucas, M., Guber, A. & Kravchenko, A. "Root-pore interactions, the underestimated driver for rhizosphere structure and rhizosheath development." Plant, Cell & Environment 49,1, 295–308+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1111/pce.70215]
2026
Glenn, P.D., McKinley, B.A., Barry, K., Schmutz, J. & Mullet, J.E. "Compilation and utilization of a sorghum transcriptome compendium for gene regulatory network analysis and crop trait engineering." The Plant Journal 126,4, e70922+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.70922]
2026
Haase, M.A.B., Lazar-Stefanita, L., Baudry, L., Wudzinska, A., Zhou, X., Rokas, A., Hittinger, C.T., Pfander, B., Musacchio, A. & Boeke, J.D. "Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres." Nature 651, 1004–1011+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-10092-0]
2026
Harrison, M.-C., Rinker, D.C., Labella, A.L., Opulente, D.A., Wolters, J.F., Zhou, X., Shen, X.-X., Groenewald, M., Hittinger, C.T. & Rokas, A. "Machine learning identifies novel signatures of antifungal drug resistance in Saccharomycotina yeasts." PLOS Genetics 22,3, e1012091+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1012091]
2026
Heckman, R.W., John, G.P., Bonnette, J.E., Campitelli, B.E., Fritschi, F.B., Lowry, D.B., Fay, P.A. & Juenger, T.E. "Correlational selection and genetic architecture shape the evolution of the leaf economics spectrum in a perennial grass." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123,8, e2515134123+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515134123]
2026
Horianopoulos, L.C., Chavez, C.M., Rokas, A. & Hittinger, C.T. "A trait syndrome ties cell morphology to glycolysis across the yeast subphylum." iScience 29,7, (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.116395]
2026
Horianopoulos, L.C., Rokas, A. & Hittinger, C.T. "Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes." The EMBO Journal 45,10, 3540–3562+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1038/s44318-026-00778-0]
2026
Kim, B., Hall, B.W., Haak, D.V., Coplien, J., Karlen, S.D., Donohue, T.J. & Noguera, D.R. "Using Novosphingobium aromaticivorans for concurrent production of intracellular and extracellular products from aromatics extracted from poplar biomass." ACS Environmental Science & Technology 6,3, 1106–1117+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1021/acsestengg.5c00956]
2026
Ko, D.K. & Brandizzi, F. "A tissue-resolved, network-based transcriptomic framework for abiotic stress responses in sorghum." The Plant Journal 126,1, e70834+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.70834]
2026
Ko, D.K. & Brandizzi, F. "Protocol for applying a network-enabled gene discovery pipeline to non-model plant species." STAR Protocols 7,3, 104641+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2026.104641]
2026
Ko, D.K., Danieli, R. & Brandizzi, F. "Rewiring the unfolded protein response for plant growth recovery from stress." Plant Communications DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2026.101924, (2026). [DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2026.101924]
2026
Kurtz, E., McKinley, B. & Mullet, J. "Small signaling peptides in Sorghum bicolor: integrating phylogeny and gene expression to characterize roles in stem development." Plant Direct 10,6, e70177+ (2026). [DOI: 10.1002/pld3.70177]