Publications

Sousa, L. da C., Jin, M., Chundawat, S.P.S., Bokade, V., Tang, X., Azarpira, A., Lu, F., Avci, U., Humpula, J., Uppugundla, N., et al. "Next-generation ammonia pretreatment enhances cellulosic biofuel production." Energy & Environmental Science 9,4, 1215–1223+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c5ee03051j]

Dickinson, Q., Bottoms, S., Hinchman, L., McIlwain, S., Li, S., Myers, C.L., Boone, C., Coon, J.J., Hebert, A., Sato, T.K., et al. "Mechanism of imidazolium ionic liquids toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and rational engineering of a tolerant, xylose-fermenting strain." Microbial Cell Factories 15, 17+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0417-7]

Ding, S.-Y. "Nanoscale structure of biomass." in Reaction Pathways and Mechanisms in Thermocatalytic Biomass Conversion I, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. 1–14+ (Springer Singapore, 2016). [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-688-1_1]

Duncan, D.S., Jewell, K.A., Suen, G. & Jackson, R.D. "Detection of short-term cropping system-induced changes to soil bacterial communities differs among four molecular characterization methods." Soil Biology and Biochemistry 96, 160–168+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.02.002]

Duran, B.E.L., Duncan, D.S., Oates, L.G., Kucharik, C.J. & Jackson, R.D. "Nitrogen fertilization effects on productivity and nitrogen loss in three grass-based perennial bioenergy cropping systems." PLOS ONE 11,3, (2016). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151919]

Ferris, A.M. & Rothamer, D.A. "Methodology for the experimental measurement of vapor-liquid equilibrium distillation curves using a modified ASTM D86 setup." Fuel 182, 467–479+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2016.05.099]

Fox, A.F., Kim, T.N., Bahlai, C.A., Woltz, M., Gratton, C. & Landis, D.A. "Cover crops have neutral effects on predator communities and biological control services in annual cellulosic bioenergy cropping systems." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 232, 101–109+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.07.003]

Garoutte, A., Cardenas, E., Tiedje, J. & Howe, A. "Methodologies for probing the metatranscriptome of grassland soil." Journal of Microbiological Methods 131, 122–129+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2016.10.018]

Geertsema, W., Rossing, W.A.H., Landis, D.A., Bianchi, F.J.J.A., van Rijn, P.C.J., Schaminée, J.H.J., Tscharntke, T. & van der Werf, W. "Actionable knowledge for ecological intensification of agriculture." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14,4, 209–216+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/fee.1258]

Gelfand, I., Shcherbak, I., Millar, N., Kravchenko, A.N. & Robertson, P. "Long-term nitrous oxide fluxes in annual and perennial agricultural and unmanaged ecosystems in the upper Midwest USA." Global Change Biology 22,11, 3594–3607+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13426]

Ghosh, I.N. & Landick, R. "OptSSeq: high-throughput sequencing readout of growth enrichment defines optimal gene expression elements for homoethanologenesis." ACS Synthetic Biology 5,12, 1519–1534+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00121]

Guo, J., Cole, J.R., Zhang, Q., Brown, T. & Tiedje, J.M. "Microbial community analysis with ribosomal gene fragments from shotgun metagenomes." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82,1, 157–166+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02772-15]

Ha, C.M., Escamilla-Trevino, L., Yarce, J.C.S., Kim, H., Ralph, J., Chen, F. & Dixon, R.A. "An essential role of caffeoyl shikimate esterase in monolignol biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula." The Plant Journal 86,5, 363–375+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13177]

Han, J., Chen, J., Miao, Y. & Wan, S. "Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): a new concept for ecosystem production." Scientific Reports 6, 37453+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/srep37453 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37453#supplementary-information]

Hao, X., Thelen, K. & Gao, J. "Spatial variability in biomass yield of switchgrass, native prairie, and corn at field scale." Agronomy Journal 108,2, 548–558+ (2016). [DOI: 10.2134/agronj2015.0167]

Harman-Ware, A.E., Foster, C., Happs, R.M., Doeppke, C., Meunier, K., Gehan, J., Yue, F., Lu, F. & Davis, M. "Quantitative analysis of lignin monomers by a thioacidolysis method tailored for higher-throughput analysis." Biotechnology Journal 11,10, 1268–1273+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/biot.201600266]

Helmich, K.E., Pereira, J.H., Gall, D.L., Heins, R.A., McAndrew, R.P., Bingman, C., Deng, K., Holland, K.C., Noguera, D.R., Simmons, B.A., et al. "Structural basis of stereospecificity in the bacterial enzymatic cleavage of β-aryl ether bonds in lignin." Journal of Biological Chemistry 291,10, 5234–5246+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M115.694307]

Hirsch, C.N., Hirsch, C.D., Brohammer, A.B., Bowman, M.J., Soifer, I., Barad, O., Shem-Tov, D., Baruch, K., Lu, F., Hernandez, A.G., et al. "Draft assembly of elite inbred line PH207 provides insights into genomic and transcriptome diversity in maize." The Plant Cell 28,11, 2700–2714+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00353]

Horn, P.J. & Benning, C. "The plant lipidome in human and environmental health." Science 353,6305, 1228–1232+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6206]

Horn, P.J., Liu, J., Cocuron, J.-C., McGlew, K., Thrower, N.A., Larson, M., Lu, C., Alonso, A.P. & Ohlrogge, J. "Identification of multiple lipid genes with modifications in expression and sequence associated with the evolution of hydroxy fatty acid accumulation in Physaria fendleri." The Plant Journal 86, 322–348+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13163]

Jin, M., Sousa, L. da C., Schwartz, C., He, Y., Sarks, C., Gunawan, C., Balan, V. & Dale, B.E. "Toward lower cost cellulosic biofuel production using ammonia based pretreatment technologies." Green Chemistry 18,4, 957–966+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c5gc02433a]

Kallenbach, C.M., Frey, S.D. & Grandy, S. "Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls." Nature Communications 7, 13630+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13630]

Kang, J.-H., Campos, M.L., Zemelis-Durfee, S., Al-Haddad, J.M., Jones, D., Telewski, F.W., Brandizzi, F. & Howe, G.A. "Molecular cloning of the tomato Hairless gene implicates actin dynamics in trichome-mediated defense and mechanical properties of stem tissue." Journal of Experimental Botany 67,18, 5313–5324+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw292]

Karlen, S.D., Zhang, C., Peck, M.L., Smith, R.A., Padmakshan, D., Helmich, K.E., Free, H.C.A., Lee, S., Smith, B.G., Lu, F., et al. "Monolignol-ferulate conjugates are naturally incorporated into plant lignins." Science Advances 2, (2016). [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600393]

Khadempour, L., Burnum-Johnson, K.E., Baker, E.S., Nicora, C.D., Webb-Robertson, B.-J.M., White, R.A., Monroe, M.E., Huang, E.L., Smith, R.D. & Currie, C.R. "The fungal cultivar of leaf-cutter ants produces specific enzymes in response to different plant substrates." Molecular Ecology 25,22, 5795–5805+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13872]