Publications

Truong, S.K., McCormick, R.F., Rooney, W.L. & Mullet, J.E. "Harnessing genetic variation in leaf angle to increase productivity of Sorghum bicolor." Genetics 201,3, 1229–1238+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.178608]

Tsai, C.-H., Zienkiewicz, K., Amstutz, C.L., Brink, B.G., Warakanont, J., Roston, R. & Benning, C. "Dynamics of protein and polar lipid recruitment during lipid droplet assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii." The Plant Journal 83,4, 650–660+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12917]

Tsuji, Y., Vanholme, R., Tobimatsu, Y., Ishikawa, Y., Foster, C.E., Kamimura, N., Hishiyama, S., Hashimoto, S., Shino, A., Hara, H., et al. "Introduction of chemically labile substructures into Arabidopsis lignin through the use of LigD, the Cα-dehydrogenase from Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6." Plant Biotechnology Journal 13,6, 821–832+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12316]

Underkofler, K.A., Teixeira, R.E., Pietsch, S.A., Knapp, K.G. & Raines, R.T. "Separation of lignin from corn stover hydrolysate with quantitative recovery of ionic liquid." ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 3,4, 606–613+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1021/sc500731c]

Wagner, A., Tobimatsu, Y., Phillips, L., Flint, H., Geddes, B., Lu, F. & Ralph, J. "Syringyl lignin production in conifers: proof of concept in a pine tracheary element system." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112,19, 6218–6223+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411926112]

Walker, J.A., Takasuka, T.E., Deng, K., Bianchetti, C.M., Udell, H.S., Prom, B.M., Kim, H., Adams, P.D., Northen, T.R. & Fox, B.G. "Multifunctional cellulase catalysis targeted by fusion to different carbohydrate-binding modules." Biotechnology for Biofuels 8, 220+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0402-0]

Wang, Q., Fish, J.A., Gilman, M., Sun, Y., Brown, T., Tiedje, J.M. & Cole, J.R. "Xander: employing a novel method for efficient gene-targeted metagenomic assembly." Microbiome 3, 32+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0093-6]

Wieder, W.R., Grandy, A.S., Kallenbach, C.M., Taylor, P.G. & Bonan, G.B. "Representing life in the Earth system with soil microbial functional traits in the MIMICS model." Geoscientific Model Development 8, 1789–1808+ (2015). [DOI: 10.5194/gmdd-8-2011-2015]

Wyman, C.E. & Dale, B.E. "Producing biofuels via the sugar platform." Chemical Engineering Progress Magazine 111,3, 45–57+ (2015).

Xue, S., Uppugundla, N., Bowman, M.J., Cavalier, D., Sousa, L.D.C., Dale, B.E. & Balan, V. "Sugar loss and enzyme inhibition due to oligosaccharide accumulation during high solids-loading enzymatic hydrolysis." Biotechnology for Biofuels 8, 195+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0378-9]

Yang, Y., Munz, J., Cass, C., Zienkiewicz, A., Kong, Q., Ma, W., , Sedbrook, J. & Benning, C. "Ectopic expression of WRINKLED1 affects fatty acid homeostasis in Brachypodium distachyon vegetative tissues." Plant Physiology 169,3, 1836–1847+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01236]

Zhang, B., Penton, R., Xue, C., Wang, Q., Zheng, T. & Tiedje, J.M. "Evaluation of the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine for gene-targeted studies using amplicons of the nitrogenase gene nifH." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81,13, 4536–4545+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00111-15]

Zhang, X., Izaurralde, R.C., Manowitz, D.H., Sahajpal, R., West, T.O., Thomson, A.M., Xu, M., Zhao, K., LeDuc, S.D. & Williams, J.R. "Regional scale cropland carbon budgets: evaluating a geospatial agricultural modeling system using inventory data." Environmental Modelling & Software 63, 199–216+ (2015). [DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.10.005]

Alexander, H.M., Mauck, K.E., Whitfield, A.E., Garrett, K.A. & Malmstrom, C.M. "Plant-virus interactions and the agro-ecological interface." European Journal of Plant Pathology 138,3, 529–547+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1007/s10658-013-0317-1]

Alexander, W.G., Doering, D.T. & Hittinger, C.T. "High-efficiency genome editing and allele replacement in prototrophic and wild strains of Saccharomyces." Genetics 198,3, 859–866+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.170118]

Almeida, P., Goncalves, C., Teixeira, S., Libkind, D., Bontrager, M., Masneuf-Pomarede, I., Albertin, W., Durrens, P., Sherman, D.J., Marullo, P., et al. "A Gondwanan imprint on global diversity and domestication of wine and cider yeast Saccharomyces uvarum." Nature Communications 5, 4044+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5044]

Aylward, F.O., Suen, G., Biedermann, P.H.W., Adams, A.S., Scott, J.J., Malfatti, S.A., del Rio, T.G., Tringe, S.G., Poulsen, M., Raffa, K.F., et al. "Convergent bacterial microbiotas in the fungal agricultural systems of insects." mBio 5,6, e02077–14+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02077-14]

Azarpira, A., Ralph, J. & Lu, F. "Catalytic alkaline oxidation of lignin and its model compounds: a pathway to aromatic biochemicals." BioEnergy Research 7,1, 78–86+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1007/s12155-013-9348-x]

Balan, V. "Current challenges in commercially producing biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass." ISRN Biotechnology Volume 2014, Article ID 463074+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1155/2014/463074]

Bates, P.D., Johnson, S.R., Cao, X., Li, J., Nam, J.-W., Jaworski, J.G., Ohlrogge, J.B. & Browse, J. "Fatty acid synthesis is inhibited by inefficient utilization of unusual fatty acids for glycerolipid assembly." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111,3, 1204–1209+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318511111]

Beissinger, T.M., Hirsch, C.N., Vaillancourt, B., Deshpande, S., Barry, K., Buell, R., Kaeppler, S.M., Gianola, D. & de Leon, N. "A genome-wide scan for evidence of selection in a maize population under long-term artificial selection for ear number." Genetics 196,3, 829–40+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.160655]

Bennett, A. & Isaacs, R. "Landscape composition influences pollinators and pollination services in perennial biofuel plantings." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 193, 1–8+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.04.016]

Bennett, A.B., Meehan, T.D., Gratton, C. & Isaacs, R. "Modeling pollinator community response to contrasting bioenergy scenarios." PLOS ONE 9,11, e110676+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110676]

Bhalla, A., Bischoff, K.M., Uppugundla, N., Balan, V. & Sani, R.K. "Novel thermostable endo-xylanase cloned and expressed from bacterium Geobacillus sp. WSUCF1." Bioresource Technology 165, 314–318+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.112]

Bonawitz, N.D., Kim, J.I., Tobimatsu, Y., Ciesielski, P.N., Anderson, N.A., Ximenes, E., Maeda, J., Ralph, J., Donohoe, B.S., Ladisch, M., et al. "Disruption of Mediator rescues the stunted growth of a lignin-deficient Arabidopsis mutant." Nature 509, 376–380+ (2014). [DOI: 10.1038/nature13084]