Publications

Sanford, G.R., Oates, L.G., Jasrotia, P., Thelen, K.D., Robertson, P. & Jackson, R.D. "Comparative productivity of alternative cellulosic bioenergy cropping systems in the North Central USA." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 216, 344–355+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2015.10.018]

Sardi, M., Rovinskiy, N., Zhang, Y. & Gasch, A.P. "Leveraging genetic background effects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to improve lignocellulosic hydrolysate tolerance." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82,19, 5838–5849+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01603-16]

Sarks, C., Bals, B.D., Wynn, J., Teymouri, F., Schwegmann, S., Sanders, K., Jin, M., Balan, V. & Dale, B.E. "Scaling up and benchmarking of ethanol production from pelletized pilot scale AFEX treated corn stover using Zymomonas mobilis 8b." Biofuels 7,3, 253–262+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1080/17597269.2015.1132368]

Sarks, C., Higbee, A., Piotrowski, J., Xue, S., Coon, J.J., Sato, T.K., Jin, M., Balan, V. & Dale, B.E. "Quantifying pretreatment degradation compounds in solution and accumulated by cells during solids and yeast recycling in the Rapid Bioconversion with Integrated recycling Technology process using AFEX™ corn stover." Bioresource Technology 205, 24–33+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.01.008]

Sato, T.K., Tremaine, M., Parreiras, L.S., Hebert, A.S., Myers, K.S., Higbee, A.J., Sardi, M., McIlwain, S.J., Ong, I.M., Breuer, R.J., et al. "Directed evolution reveals unexpected epistatic interactions that alter metabolic regulation and enable anaerobic xylose use by Saccharomyces cerevisiae." PLOS Genetics 12,10, e1006372+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006372]

Schwartz, T.J., Lyman, S.D., Motagamwala, A.H., Mellmer, M.A. & Dumesic, J.A. "Selective hydrogenation of unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds in aromatic-containing platform molecules." ACS Catalysis 6,3, 2047–2054+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00072]

Sekhon, R.S., Breitzman, M.W., Silva, R.R., Santoro, N., Rooney, W.L., De Leon, N. & Kaeppler, S.M. "Stover composition in maize and sorghum reveals remarkable genetic variation and plasticity for carbohydrate accumulation." Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 822+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00822]

Sener, C., Wesley, T.S., Alba-Rubio, A.C., Kumbhalkar, M.D., Hakim, S.H., Riberio, F.H., Miller, J.T. & Dumesic, J.A. "PtMo bimetallic catalysts synthesized by controlled surface reactions for water gas shift." ACS Catalysis 6,2, 1334–1344+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b02028]

Shade, A. "Diversity is the question, not the answer." ISME Journal 11, 1–6+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.118]

Shen, X.-X., Zhou, X., Kominek, J., Kurtzman, C.P., Hittinger, C.T. & Rokas, A. "Reconstructing the backbone of the Saccharomycotina yeast phylogeny using genome-scale data." G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics 6,12, 3927–3939+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.034744]

Shuai, L., Amiri, M.T., Questell-Santiago, Y.M., Héroguel, F., Li, Y., Kim, H., Meilan, R., Chapple, C., Ralph, J. & Luterbacher, J.S. "Formaldehyde stabilization facilitates lignin monomer production during biomass depolymerization." Science 354,6310, 329–333+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7810]

Simpson, J.P. & Ohlrogge, J.B. "A novel pathway for triacylglycerol biosynthesis is responsible for the accumulation of massive quantities of glycerolipids in the surface wax of Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) fruit." The Plant Cell 28,1, 248–264+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00900]

Simpson, J.P., Thrower, N. & Ohlrogge, J.B. "How did nature engineer the highest surface lipid accumulation among plants? Exceptional expression of acyl-lipid-associated genes for the assembly of extracellular triacylglycerol by Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) fruits." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1861,9, 1243–1252+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2016.01.022]

Skevas, T., Swinton, S.M., Tanner, S., Sanford, G. & Thelen, K.D. "Investment risks in bioenergy crops." Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 8, 1162–1177+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12320]

Slininger, P.J., Shea-Andersh, M.A., Thompson, S.R., Dien, B.S., Kurtzman, C.P., Sousa, L. da C. & Balan, V. "Techniques for the evolution of robust pentose-fermenting yeast for bioconversion of lignocellulose to ethanol." Journal of Visualized Experiments 116, e54227+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3791/54227]

Spero, M.A., Brickner, J.R., Mollet, J.T., Pisithkul, T., Amador-Noguez, D. & Donohue, T.J. "Different functions of phylogenetically distinct bacterial complex I isozymes." Journal of Bacteriology 198,8, 1268–1280+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1128/JB.01025-15]

Spero, M.A., Imam, S., Noguera, D.R. & Donohue, T.J. "Electron partitioning in anoxic phototrophic bacteria." in Cytochrome Complexes: Evolution, Structures, Energy Transduction, and Signaling. vols. 41 679–700+ (Springer Verlag, 2016). [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7481-9_32]

Stahlheber, K.A., Watson, B., Dickson, T.L., Disney, R. & Gross, K.L. "Balancing biofuel production and biodiversity: Harvesting frequency effects on production and community composition in planted tallgrass prairie." Biomass and Bioenergy 92, 98–105+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.06.012]

Stefely, J.A., Kwiecien, N.W., Freiberger, E.C., Richards, A.L., Jochem, A., Rush, M.J., Ulbrich, A., Robinson, K.P., Hutchins, P.D., Veling, M.T., et al. "Mitochondrial protein functions elucidated by multi-omic mass spectrometry profiling." Nature Biotechnology 34,11, 1191–1197+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3683]

Stelpflug, S.C., Sekhon, R.S., Vaillancourt, B., Hirsch, C.N., Buell, R., de Leon, N. & Kaeppler, S.M. "An expanded maize gene expression atlas based on RNA sequencing and its use to explore root development." The Plant Genome 9,1, 1–16+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.04.0025]

Tumbalam, P., Hard, K. & Thelen, K.D. "Integrating winter annual cereal rye or triticale into a corn forage biofuel production system." Journal of Crop Improvement 30,5, 526–540+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1080/15427528.2016.1189472]

Tumbalam, P., Thelen, K.D., Adkins, A., Dale, B., Balan, V., Gunawan, C. & Gao, J. "Corn stover ethanol yield as affected by grain yield, Bt trait, and environment." Biomass and Bioenergy 85, 119–125+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.12.004]

Vinay-Lara, E., Wang, S., Bai, L., Phrommao, E., Broadbent, J.R. & Steele, J.L. "Lactobacillus casei as a biocatalyst for biofuel production." Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 43, 1205–1213+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-016-1797-8]

Walker, A.M., Sattler, S.A., Regner, M., Jones, J.P., Ralph, J., Vermerris, W., Sattler, S.E. & Kang, C. "The structure and catalytic mechanism of Sorghum bicolor caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase." Plant Physiology 172,1, 78–92+ (2016). [DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00845]

Wenninger, A., Kim, T., Spiesman, B. & Gratton, C. "Contrasting foraging patterns: testing resource-concentration and dilution effects with pollinators and seed predators." Insects 7,2, 23+ (2016). [DOI: 10.3390/insects7020023]