Publications

Stappler, E., Walton, J.D., Beier, S. & Schmoll, M. "Abundance of secreted proteins of Trichoderma reesei Is regulated by light of different intensities." Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 2586+ (2017). [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02586]

Vakirlis, N., Hebert, A.S., Opulente, D.A., Achaz, G., Hittinger, C.T., Fischer, G., Coon, J.J. & Lafontaine, I. "A molecular portrait of de novo genes in yeasts." Molecular Biology and Evolution 35, 631–645+ (2017). [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx315]

Abraha, M., Gelfand, I., Hamilton, S.K., Shao, C., Su, Y.-J., Robertson, P. & Chen, J. "Ecosystem water-use efficiency of annual corn and perennial grasslands: contributions from land-use history and species composition." Ecosystems 19,6, 1001–1012+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-9981-2]

Adkins, A. & Thelen, K. "Switchgrass ash content response to harvest timing and two harvest/storage methods of a bioenergy cropping system in the Great Lakes Region." American Journal of Biomass and Bioenergy 5,2, 98–110+ (2016). [DOI: 10.7726/ajbb.2016.1008]

Alexander, W.G., Peris, D., Pfannenstiel, B.T., Opulente, D.A., Kuang, M. & Hittinger, C.T. "Efficient engineering of marker-free synthetic allotetraploids of Saccharomyces." Fungal Genetics and Biology 89, 10–17+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.11.002]

Alexander, W.G., Wisecaver, J.H., Rokas, A. & Hittinger, C.T. "Horizontally acquired genes in early-diverging pathogenic fungi enable the use of host nucleosides and nucleotides." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113,15, 4116–4121+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517242113]

Badalyan, A. & Stahl, S.S. "Cooperative electrocatalytic alcohol oxidation with electron-proton-transfer mediators." Nature 535,7612, 406–410+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/nature18008]

Bahlai, C.A. & Landis, D.A. "Predicting plant attractiveness to pollinators with passive crowdsourcing." Royal Society Open Science 3, 150677+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150677]

Barham, B.L., Mooney, D.F. & Swinton, S.M. "Inconvenient truths about landowner (un)willingness to grow dedicated bioenergy crops." Choices 31,4, (2016). [DOI: in journal]

Bellora, N., Moline, M., David-Palma, M., Coelho, M.A., Hittinger, C.T., Sampaio, J.P., Goncalves, P. & Libkind, D. "Comparative genomics provides new insights into the diversity, physiology, and sexuality of the only industrially exploited tremellomycete: Phaffia rhodozyma." BMC Genomics 17,1, 901+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3244-7]

Bewg, W.P., Poovaiah, C., Lan, W., Ralph, J. & Coleman, H.D. "RNAi downregulation of three key lignin genes in sugarcane improves glucose release without reduction in sugar production." Biotechnology for Biofuels 9, 270+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0683-y]

Bhalla, A., Bansal, N., Stoklosa, R.J., Fountain, M., Ralph, J., Hodge, D.B. & Hegg, E.L. "Effective alkaline metal-catalyzed oxidative delignification of hybrid poplar." Biotechnology for Biofuels 9, 34+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0442-0]

Blaser, M.J., Cardon, Z.G., Cho, M.K., Dangl, J.L., Donohue, T.J., Green, J.L., Knight, R., Maxon, M.E., Northen, T.R., Pollard, K.S., et al. "Toward a predictive understanding of Earth’s microbiomes to address 21st century challenges." mBio 7,3, (2016). [DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00714-16]

Book, A.J., Lewin, G.R., McDonald, B.R., Takasuka, T.E., Wendt-Pienkowski, E., Doering, D.T., Suh, S., Raffa, K.F., Fox, B.G. & Currie, C.R. "Evolution of high cellulolytic activity in symbiotic Streptomyces through selection of expanded gene content and coordinated gene expression." PLOS Biology 14,6, (2016). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002475]

Brumm, P.J., Gowda, K., Robb, F.T. & Mead, D.A. "The complete genome sequence of hyperthermophile Dictyoglomus turgidum DSM 6724™ reveals a specialized carbohydrate fermentor." Frontiers in Microbiology 7, 1979+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01979]

Cai, Y., Zhang, K., Kim, H., Hou, G., Zhang, X., Yang, H., Feng, H., Miller, L., Ralph, J. & Liu, C.-J. "Enhancing digestibility and ethanol yield of Populus wood via expression of an engineered monolignol 4-O-methyltransferase." Nature Communications 7, 11989+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11989]

Cass, C.L., Lavell, A.A., Santoro, N., Foster, C.E., Karlen, S.D., Smith, R.A., Ralph, J., Garvin, D.F. & Sedbrook, J.C. "Cell wall composition and biomass recalcitrance differences within a genotypically diverse set of Brachypodium distachyon inbred lines." Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 708+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00708]

Chen, S., Kaeppler, S.M., Vogel, K.P. & Casler, M.D. "Selection signatures in four lignin genes from switchgrass populations divergently selected for in vitro dry matter digestibility." PLOS ONE 11,11, (2016). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167005]

Chen, W., McClelland, D.J., Azarpira, A., Ralph, J., Luo, Z. & Huber, G.W. "Low temperature hydrogenation of pyrolytic lignin over Ru/TiO2: 2D HSQC and 13C NMR study of reactants and products." Green Chemistry 18,1, 271–281+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c5gc02286j]

Chundawat, S.P.S., Paavola, C.D., Raman, B., Nouailler, M., Chan, S.L., Mielenz, J.R., Receveur-Brechot, V., Trent, J.D. & Dale, B.E. "Saccharification of thermochemically pretreated cellulosic biomass using native and engineered cellulosomal enzyme systems." Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 1,6, 616–628+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/C6RE00172F]

Collier, S.M., Dean, A.P., Oates, L.G., Ruark, M.D. & Jackson, R.D. "Does plant biomass manipulation in static chambers affect nitrous oxide emissions from soils?" Journal of Environmental Quality 45,2, 751–756+ (2016). [DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.07.0377]

Cornish, A.J., Ginovska, B., Thelen, A., da Silva, J.C.S., Soares, T.A., Raugei, S., Dupuis, M., Shaw, W.J. & Hegg, E.L. "Single-amino acid modifications reveal additional controls on the proton pathway of [FeFe]-hydrogenase." Biochemistry 55,22, 3165–3173+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01044]

Cotten, C. & Reed, J.L. "Applications of constraint-based models for biochemical production." in Biotechnology for Biofuel Production and Optimization. 201–226+ (Elsevier, 2016). [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63475-7.00008-X]

Jesus, E. da C., Liang, C., Quensen, J.F., Susilawati, E., Jackson, R.D., Balser, T.C. & Tiedje, J.M. "Influence of corn, switchgrass, and prairie cropping systems on soil microbial communities in the upper Midwest of the United States." Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 8, 481–494+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12289]

Sousa, L. da C., Foston, M., Bokade, V., Azarpira, A., Lu, F., Ragauskas, A.J., Ralph, J., Dale, B. & Balan, V. "Isolation and characterization of new lignin streams derived from extractive-ammonia (EA) pretreatment." Green Chemistry 18,15, 4205–4215+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c6gc00298f]