Publications

Wang, D., Hakim, S.H., Alonso, D.M. & Dumesic, J.A. "A highly selective route to linear alpha olefins from biomass-derived lactones and unsaturated acids." Chemical Communications 49,63, 7040–7042+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1039/c3cc43587c]

Wang, D., Osmundsen, C.M., Taarning, E. & Dumesic, J.A. "Selective production of aromatics from alkylfurans over solid acid catalysts." ChemCatChem 5,7, 2044–2050+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201200757]

Wang, Q., Quensen, J.F., Fish, J.A., Lee, T.K., Sun, Y., Tiedje, J.M. & Cole, J.R. "Ecological patterns of nifH genes in four terrestrial climatic zones explored with targeted metagenomics using FrameBot, a new informatics tool." mBio 4,5, e00592–13+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00592-13]

Williams, C.L., Charland, P., Radloff, G., Sample, D. & Jackson, R.D. "Grass-shed: place and process for catalyzing perennial grass bioeconomies and their potential multiple benefits." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 68,6, 141A-146A+ (2013). [DOI: 10.2489/jswc.68.6.141A]

Youngquist, T., Rose, J.P. & Pfleger, B.F. "Free fatty acid production in Escherichia coli under phosphate-limited conditions." Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 97,11, 5149–59+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4911-0]

Youngquist, T., Schumacher, M.H., Rose, J.P., Raines, T.C., Politz, M.C., Copeland, M.F. & Pfleger, B.F. "Production of medium chain length fatty alcohols from glucose in Escherichia coli." Metabolic Engineering 20, 177–186+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2013.10.006]

Zenone, T., Gelfand, I., Chen, J., Hamilton, S.K. & Robertson, P. "From set-aside grassland to annual and perennial cellulosic biofuel crops: effects of land use change on carbon balance." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 182-183, 1–12+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.07.015]

Zhang, X., Beeson, P., Link, R., Manowitz, D., Izaurralde, R.C., Sadeghi, A., Thomson, A.M., Sahajpal, R., Srinivasan, R. & Arnold, J.G. "Efficient multi-objective calibration of a computationally intensive hydrologic model with parallel computing software in Python." Environmental Modelling & Software 46, 208–218+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.03.013]

Zhang, X., Izaurralde, C., Arnold, J.G., Williams, J.R. & Srinivasan, R. "Modifying the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to simulate cropland carbon flux: model development and initial evaluation." Science of the Total Environment 463-464, 810–822+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.056]

Zhao, Q., Tobimatsu, Y., Zhou, R., Pattathil, S., Gallego-Giraldo, L., Fu, C., Jackson, L.A., Hahn, M.G., Kim, H., Ralph, J., et al. "Loss of function of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 1 leads to unconventional lignin and a temperature-sensitive growth defect in Medicago truncatula." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110,33, 13660–13665+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312234110]

Zhu, Y., Regner, M., Lu, F., Kim, H., Mohammadi, A., Pearson, T.J. & Ralph, J. "Preparation of monolignol γ-acetate, γ-p-hydroxycinnamate, and γ-p-hydroxybenzoate conjugates: selective deacylation of phenolic acetates with hydrazine acetate." RSC Advances 3,44, 21964–21971+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1039/C3RA42818D]

Agnew, D.E., Stevermer, A.K., Youngquist, T. & Pfleger, B.F. "Engineering Escherichia coli for production of C12-C14 polyhydroxyalkanoate from glucose." Metabolic Engineering 14,6, 705–13+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.08.003]

Allen, D.K., Laclair, R.W., Ohlrogge, J.B. & Shachar-Hill, Y. "Isotope labelling of Rubisco subunits provides in vivo information on subcellular biosynthesis and exchange of amino acids between compartments." Plant, Cell & Environment 35, 1232–1244+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2012.02485.x]

Alonso, D.M., Wettstein, S.G. & Dumesic, J.A. "Bimetallic catalysts for upgrading of biomass to fuels and chemicals." Chemical Society Reviews 41,24, 8075–8098+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35188A]

Aylward, F.O., Burnum, K.E., Scott, J.J., Suen, G., Tringe, S.G., Adams, S.M., Barry, K.W., Nicora, C.D., Piehowski, P.D., Purvine, S.O., et al. "Metagenomic and metaproteomic insights into bacterial communities in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens." The International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal 6, 1688–7101+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.10]

Aylward, F.O., Currie, C.R. & Suen, G. "The evolutionary innovation of nutritional symbioses in leaf-cutter ants." Insects 3,1, 41–61+ (2012). [DOI: 10.3390/insects3010041]

Azadi, P., Carrasquillo-Flores, R., Pagan-Torres, Y.J., Gurbuz, E.I., Farnood, R. & Dumesic, J.A. "Catalytic conversion of biomass using solvents derived from lignin." Green Chemistry 14,6, 1573–1576+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1039/C2GC35203F]

Backhaus, J. & Rothamer, D. "Design methodology for volatility characteristics of bio-derived drop-in gasoline fuels." in Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute. vol. 1 222–234+ (Curran Associates, Inc., 2012).

Balan, V., Sousa, L. da C., Chundawat, S.P., Humpula, J.F. & Dale, B.E. "Overview to ammonia pretreatments for lignocellulosic biorefineries." in Microbiology. Dynamic Biochemistry, Process Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. vol. 6 (Special Issue 2) 1–11+ (2012).

Balan, V., Kumar, S., Bals, B., Chundawat, S., Jin, M. & Dale, B. "Biochemical and thermochemical conversion of switchgrass to biofuels." in Switchgrass: A Valuable Biomass Crop for Energy. 153–185+ (Springer London, 2012). [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2903-5_7]

Bals, B., Teymouri, F., Campbell, T., Jin, M. & Dale, B. "Low temperature and long residence time AFEX pretreatment of corn stover." BioEnergy Research 5,2, 372–379+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1007/s12155-011-9140-8]

Bals, B.D. & Dale, B.E. "Developing a model for assessing biomass processing technologies within a local biomass processing depot." Bioresource Technology 106, 161–169+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.024]

Banerjee, G., Car, S., Liu, T., Williams, D.L., Meza, S.L., Walton, J.D. & Hodge, D.B. "Scale-up and integration of alkaline hydrogen peroxide pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and ethanolic fermentation." Biotechnology and Bioengineering 109,4, 922–931+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1002/bit.24385]

Bellesia, G., Chundawat, S.P.S., Langan, P., Redondo, A., Dale, B.E. & Gnanakaran, S. "Coarse-grained model for the interconversion between native and liquid ammonia-treated crystalline cellulose." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116, 8031–8037+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1021/jp300354q]

Brennan, M., McLean, P., Altaner, C.M., Ralph, J. & Harris, P.J. "Cellulose microfibril angles and cell-wall polymers in different wood types of Pinus radiata." Cellulose 19,4, 1385–1404+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1007/s10570-012-9697-1]