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
2025	Ko, D.K. & Brandizzi, F. "A network-enabled pipeline for gene discovery and validation in non-model plant species." Cell Reports Methods 5,1, 100963+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100963] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Koester, F., Myers, K.S., Donohue, T.J. & Noguera, D.R. "Metagenome-assembled genomes from microbial communities producing lactic acid from dairy residues." Microbiology Resource Announcements 14,6, (2025). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.00179-25] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Koleva, D.T., Liu, M., Dusak, B., Ghosh, S., Krogh, C.T., Hellebek, I.R., Cortsen, M.T., Motawie, M.S., Jørgensen, F.S., McKinley, B.A., et al. "Amino acid substrate specificities and tissue expression profiles of the nine CYP79A encoding genes in Sorghum bicolor." Physiologia Plantarum 177,1, (2025). [DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70029] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Kristy, B., Davidson, J., Evans, S.E. & Tiemann, L.K. "Reduced soil diazotroph diversity decreases nitrogen fixation rates but depends on land management." Applied Soil Ecology 211, (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106152] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Lee, J.H., Ulbrich, T.C., Maxwell, O., Kuzyakov, Y., Guber, A.K. & Kravchenko, A.N. "Belowground plant carbon and nitrogen exchange: plant-derived carbon inputs and pore structure formation." Soil Biology and Biochemistry 207, 109833+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109833] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Liu, S., Chou, M.-Y., Benucci, G.M.N., Eudes, A. & Bonito, G. "Genetic modification of the shikimate pathway to reduce lignin content in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) significantly impacts plant microbiomes." Microbiology Spectrum 13,1, (2025). [DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01546-24] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Lucas, M., Gil, J., Robertson, G.P., Ostrom, N.E. & Kravchenko, A. "Changes in soil pore structure generated by the root systems of maize, sorghum and switchgrass affect in situ N2O emissions and bacterial denitrification." Biology and Fertility of Soils 61,3, 367–383+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1007/s00374-023-01761-1] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Mandalika, A., Runge, T. & Ragauskas, A. "Membrane separations in biomass processing." ChemPlusChem 90,2, (2025). [DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202400497] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Martin, G., Austin, K., Lark, T., Lee, S. & Clark, C.M. "Tracking cropland transitions: a comparative analysis of U.S. land cover change data." PLOS ONE 20,3, (2025). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313880] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Metz, F., Allemann, M.N., Michener, J.K., Myers, K.S., Lu, F., Noguera, D.R. & Donohue, T.J. "RB-TnSeq barcode abundance data sets for Novosphingobium aromaticivorans grown on the β-5-linked aromatic dimer dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol." Microbiology Resource Announcements 14,1, (2025). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.00844-24] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Miao, G., Li, H., Zhu, Y., Chen, S., Lu, F., Ralph, J. & Xu, F. "Deep eutectic solvents for efficient fractionation of lignocellulose to produce uncondensed lignin and high-quality cellulose." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 13, 2197-2209+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c09673] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Miller, S.T., Macdonald, C.B. & Raman, S. "Understanding, inhibiting, and engineering membrane transporters with high-throughput mutational screens." Cell Chemical Biology 32,4, 529-542+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2025.03.003] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Min, K., Nuccio, E., Slessarev, E., Kan, M., McFarlane, K.J., Oerter, E., Jurusik, A., Sanford, G., Thelen, K.D., Pett-Ridge, J., et al. "Deep-rooted perennials alter microbial respiration and chemical composition of carbon in density fractions along soil depth profiles." Geoderma 455, 117202+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117202] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Mottiar, Y., Tschaplinski, T.J., Ralph, J. & Mansfield, S.D. "Suppression of chorismate mutase 1 in hybrid poplar to investigate potential redundancy in the supply of lignin precursors." Plant Direct 9,3, (2025). [DOI: 10.1002/pld3.70053] DOI Google Scholar
2025	O’Neill, E.G., Lark, T.J., Xie, Y., Kim, S., Dale, B.E., Robertson, G.P., Basso, B. & Maravelias, C.T. "Available land for cellulosic biofuel production: a supply chain centered comparison." Environmental Research Letters 20,1, 014067+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ada301] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Oliveira, D.M., Saleme, M. de L.S., Smith, R.A., Vangeel, T., Lima, M. de F., Chanoca, A.A., Mota, T.R., Vanhevel, Y., Coussens, G., Van Aelst, K., et al. "CRISPR/Cas9 editing of p-COUMAROYL-CoA:MONOLIGNOL TRANSFERASE 1 in maize alters phenolic metabolism, lignin structure, and lignin-first biomass processing." Trends in Biotechnology 43,5, 1166-1195+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.01.006] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Pandeya, P.R., Black, I.M., Karlen, S.D., Heiss, C., Tseng, Y.-C., Downie, B., Azadi, P. & Schendel, R.R. "Hempseed cell wall polysaccharides are dominated by linear xylans and cellulose: comprehensive structural profiling of ten cultivars of industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa L." Carbohydrate Polymers 361, 123635+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.123635] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Reed, D.E., Chu, H., Peter, B.G., Chen, J., Abraha, M., Amiro, B., Anderson, R.G., Arain, A., Arruda, P., Barron-Gafford, G.A., et al. "Network of networks: time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 372, 110686+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110686] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Sener, C., Timokhin, V.I., Hellinger, J., Ralph, J. & Karlen, S.D. "Pd/C promotes C–H bond activation and oxidation of p-hydroxybenzoate during hydrogenolysis of poplar." Nature Communications 16,1, 5259+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60270-x] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Silva, M.R., Paraíso, F., Al-Oboudi, J., Abegg, M.A., Aires, A., Barros, K.O., Brito, P.H., Jarzyna, M., Sylvester, K., Langdon, Q.K., et al. "A taxogenomic view of the genus Torulaspora: an expansion from ten to twenty-two species." Persoonia 54, 265-283+ (2025). [DOI: 10.3114/persoonia.2025.54.08] DOI Google Scholar
2025	VanWallendael, A., Wijewardana, C., Bonnette, J., Vormwald, L., Fritschi, F.B., Boe, A., Chambers, S., Mitchell, R.B., Rouquette, F.M., Wu, Y., et al. "Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms-race compromise in switchgrass rust." New Phytologist DOI: 10.1111/nph.70313, (2025). [DOI: 10.1111/nph.70313] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Wang, N., Takada, M., Sakamoto, S., Vanholme, R., Goeminne, G., Kim, H., Nagano, S., Takata, N., Kamimura, N., Uesugi, M., et al. "Effects of feruloyl-CoA 6'-hydroxylase 1 overexpression on lignin and cell wall characteristics in transgenic hybrid aspen." Frontiers in Plant Science 16, 1543168+ (2025). [DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1543168] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Wang, P., Meng, F., Del Azodi, C.B., Abá, K.S., Casler, M.D. & Shiu, S.-H. "Optimizing genomic prediction for complex traits via investigating multiple factors in switchgrass." Plant Physiology DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf188, (2025). [DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf188] DOI Google Scholar Data
2025	Yu, K.M.J., Weers, B.D., McKinley, B.A., Glenn, P.D., Kurtz, E., Rooney, W.L. & Mullet, J.E. "Bioenergy sorghum stem density increases threefold following internode elongation due to continued accumulation of lignified cell walls and complex regulation of genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis." Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 18,1, 58+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-025-02659-w] DOI Google Scholar
2025	Zhang, J., Kang, L., Shen, W., Collings, C., Gong, H., Meulen, K.V., Fox, B.G., Gilcher, E., Dumesic, J.A. & Ding, S.-Y. "Lignin removal in subcellular location of poplar cell wall during pretreatment significantly impacts cellulose digestibility." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 13,21, 7781–7788+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c00692] DOI Google Scholar