Publications

Liere, H., Kim, T.N., Werling, B.P., Meehan, T.D., Landis, D.A. & Gratton, C. "Trophic cascades in agricultural landscapes: indirect effects of landscape composition on crop yield." Ecological Applications 25,3, 652–661+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1890/14-0570.1]

Lim, S., Chundawat, S.P.S. & Fox, B.G. "Expression, purification and characterization of a functional carbohydrate-binding module from Streptomyces sp. SirexAA-E." Protein Expression and Purification 98, 1–9+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2014.02.013]

Lu, F. Lignin: structural analysis, applications in biomaterials, and ecological significance Biochemistry Research Trends. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2014). [DOI: ISBN: 978-1-63117-465-0]

Lu, F. & Ralph, J. "The DFRC (Derivatization Followed by Reductive Cleavage) method and its applications for lignin characterization." in Lignin: Structural Analysis, Applications in Biomaterials, and Ecological Significance. 27–66+ (Nova Science Publishers, 2014).

Luterbacher, J.S., Alonso, D.M. & Dumesic, J.A. "Targeted chemical upgrading of lignocellulosic biomass to platform molecules." Green Chemistry 16,12, 4816–4838+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1039/C4GC01160K]

Luterbacher, J.S., Rand, J.M., Alonso, M., Han, J., Youngquist, T., Maravelias, C.T., Pfleger, B.F. & Dumesic, J.A. "Non-enzymatic sugar production from biomass using biomass-derived γ-valerolactone." Science 343,6168, 277–280+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1126/science.1246748]

Mandalika, A., Qin, L., Sato, T.K. & Runge, T. "Integrated biorefinery model based on production of furans using open-ended high yield processes." Green Chemistry 16, 2480–2489+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1039/C3GC42424C]

Martin, J.A., Johnson, N.V., Gross, S.M., Schnable, J., Meng, X., Wang, M., Coleman-Derr, D., Lindquist, E., Wei, C.-L., Kaeppler, S., et al. "A near complete snapshot of the Zea mays seedling transcriptome revealed from ultra-deep sequencing." Scientific Reports 4, 4519+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1038/srep04519]

Mellmer, M.A., Alonso, D.M., Luterbacher, J.S., Gallo, J.M.R. & Dumesic, J.A. "Effects of γ-valerolactone in hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to monosaccharides." Green Chemistry 16,11, 4659–4662+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1039/C4gc01768d]

Mellmer, M.A., Sener, C., Gallo, J.M.R., Luterbacher, J.S., Alonso, D.M. & Dumesic, J.A. "Solvent effects in acid-catalyzed biomass conversion reactions." Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 53,44, 11872–11875+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408359]

Moskvin, O., McIlwain, S. & Ong, I.M. "CAMDA 2014: Making sense of RNA-Seq data: from low-level processing to functional analysis." Systems Biomedicine 2,2, 31–40+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1080/21628130.2015.1010923]

Mullet, J., Morishige, D., McCormick, R., Truong, S., Hilley, J., McKinley, B., Anderson, R., Olson, S.N. & Rooney, W. "Energy Sorghum—a genetic model for the design of C4 grass bioenergy crops." Journal of Experimental Botany 65,13, 3479–3489+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru229]

Niculaes, C., Morreel, K., Kim, H., Lu, F., McKee, L.S., Ivens, B., Haustraete, J., Vanholme, B., De Rycke, R., Hertzberg, M., et al. "Phenylcoumaran benzylic ether reductase prevents accumulation of compounds formed under oxidative conditions in poplar xylem." The Plant Cell 26,9, 3775–3791+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.125260]

Ogle, S.M., Adler, P.R., Breidt, J., Del Grosso, S., Derner, J., Franzluebbers, A., Liebig, M., Linquist, B., Robertson, P., Schoeneberger, M., et al. Chapter 3: Quantifying greenhouse sources and sinks in cropland and grazing land systems Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity‐Scale Inventory. Technical Bulletin Number 1939. vol. Technical Bulletin Number 1939 1–142+ https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDATB1939_07072014.pdf (2014)

Ong, R.G., Chundawat, S.P.S., Hodge, D.B., Keskar, S. & Dale, B.E. "Linking plant biology and pretreatment: understanding the structure and organization of the plant cell wall and interactions with cellulosic biofuel production." in Plants and Bioenergy. 231–253+ (Springer, 2014). [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9329-7_14]

Osterholz, W.R., Kucharik, C.J., Hedtcke, J.L. & Posner, J.L. "Seasonal nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from grain- and forage-based production systems in Wisconsin, USA." Journal of Environmental Quality 43,6, 1833–1843+ (2014). [DOI: 10.2134/jeq2014.02.0077]

Palmer, M.M., Forrester, J.A., Rothstein, D.E. & Mladenoff, D.J. "Conversion of open lands to short-rotation woody biomass crops: site variability affects nitrogen cycling and N2O fluxes in the US Northern Lake States." Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 6,4, 450–464+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12069]

Parreiras, L.S., Breuer, R.J., Narasimhan, R.A., Higbee, A.J., LaReau, A., Tremaine, M., Qin, L., Willis, L.B., Bice, B.D., Bonfert, B.L., et al. "Engineering and two-stage evolution of a lignocellulosic hydrolysate-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for anaerobic fermentation of xylose from AFEX pretreated corn stover." PLOS ONE 9,9, e107499+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107499]

Peris, D., Sylvester, K., Libkind, D., Goncalves, P., Sampaio, J.P., Alexander, W.G. & Hittinger, C.T. "Population structure and reticulate evolution of Saccharomyces eubayanus and its lager-brewing hybrids." Molecular Ecology 23,8, 2031–2045+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12702]

Peterson, A.C., Hauschild, J.-P.P., Quarmby, S.T., Krumwiede, D., Lange, O., Lemke, R.A., Grosse-Coosmann, F., Horning, S., Donohue, T.J., Westphall, M.S., et al. "Development of a GC/Quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer, Part I: Design and characterization." Analytical Chemistry 86,20, 10036–10043+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1021/ac5014767]

Petrik, D.L., Karlen, S.D., Cass, C.L., Padmakshan, D., Lu, F., Liu, S., Le Bris, P., Antelme, S., Santoro, N., Wilkerson, C.G., et al. "p-Coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase (PMT) acts specifically in the lignin biosynthetic pathway in Brachypodium distachyon." The Plant Journal 77,5, 713–726+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12420]

Piotrowski, J.S., Zhang, Y., Bates, D.M., Keating, D.H., Sato, T.K., Ong, I.M. & Landick, R. "Death by a thousand cuts: the challenges and diverse landscape of lignocellulosic hydrolysate inhibitors." Frontiers in Microbiology 5, 90+ (2014). [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00090]

Pryor, S.C., Scavia, D., Downer, C., Gaden, M., Iverson, L., Nordstrom, R., Patz, J. & Robertson, P. "Chapter 18: Midwest." in Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. 418–440+ (U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014). [DOI: 10.7930/J0J1012N]

Rahimi, A., Ulbrich, A., Coon, J.J. & Stahl, S.S. "Formic-acid-induced depolymerization of oxidized lignin to aromatics." Nature 515,7526, 249–252+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1038/nature13867]

Ream, T.S., Woods, D.P., Schwartz, C.J., Sanabria, C.P., Mahoy, J.A., Walters, E.M., Kaeppler, H.F. & Amasino, R.M. "Interaction of photoperiod and vernalization determine flowering time of Brachypodium distachyon." Plant Physiology 164,2, 694–709+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.232678]