Publications

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]

Broadbent, J.R., Neeno-Eckwall, E.C., Stahl, B., Tandee, K., Cai, H., Morovic, W., Horvath, P., Heidenreich, J., Perna, N.T., Barrangou, R., et al. "Analysis of the Lactobacillus casei supragenome and its influence in species evolution and lifestyle adaptation." BMC Genomics 13,1, 533+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-533]

Casler, M.D. "Switchgrass breeding, genetics, and genomics." in Switchgrass. 29–52+ (Springer-Verlag, 2012). [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2903-5]

Chapman, K.D. & Ohlrogge, J.B. "Compartmentation of triacylglycerol accumulation in plants." Journal of Biological Chemistry 287,4, 2288–2294+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R111.290072]

Chen, F., Tobimatsu, Y., Havkin-Frenkel, D., Dixon, R.A. & Ralph, J. "A polymer of caffeyl alcohol in plant seeds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109,5, 1772–1777+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120992109]

Chen, X. & Shachar-Hill, Y. "Insights into metabolic efficiency from flux analysis." Journal of Experimental Botany 63,6, 2343–51+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers057]

Chia, J.-M., Song, C., Bradbury, P.J., Costich, D., de Leon, N., Doebley, J., Elshire, R.J., Gaut, B., Geller, L., Glaubitz, J.C., et al. "Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux." Nature Genetics 44,7, 803–807+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1038/ng.2313]

Chundawat, S.P.S., Chang, L., Gunawan, C., Balan, V., McMahan, C. & Dale, B.E. "Guayule as a feedstock for lignocellulosic biorefineries using ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreatment." Industrial Crops and Products 37,1, 486–492+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2011.07.025]

Currie, C.R. "The tangled banks of ants and microbes." in Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw. 181–190+ (ASM Press, 2012).

Dale, B.E. & Ong, R.G. "Energy, wealth, and human development: why and how biomass pretreatment research must improve." Biotechnology Progress 28,4, 893–8+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1002/btpr.1575]

del Río, J.C., Prinsen, P., Rencoret, J., Nieto, L., Jiménez-Barbero, J., Ralph, J., Martínez, Á.T. & Gutiérrez, A. "Structural characterization of the lignin in the cortex and pith of elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) stems." Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 60,14, 3619–3634+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1021/jf300099g]

del Rio, J.C., Rencoret, J., Prinsen, P., Martínez, Á.T., Ralph, J. & Gutiérrez, A. "Structural characterization of wheat straw lignin as revealed by analytical pyrolysis, 2D-NMR, and reductive cleavage methods." Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 60, 5922–5935+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1021/jf301002n]

Dufour, Y.S. & Donohue, T.J. "Signal correlations in ecological niches can shape the organization and evolution of bacterial gene regulatory networks." in Advances in Microbial Physiology. vols. 61 1–36+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394423-8.00001-9]

Egbendewe-Mondzozo, A., Swinton, S.M., Izaurralde, C., Manowitz, D.H. & Zhang, X. "Maintaining environmental quality while expanding energy biomass production: policy simulations from Michigan, USA." in International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) Triennial Conference. (2012).

Ellinger, J.J., Miller, D.C., Lewis, I.A. & Markley, J.L. "Semiautomated device for batch extraction of metabolites from tissue samples." Analytical Chemistry 84,4, 1809–12+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1021/ac203390v]

Elumalai, S., Tobimatsu, Y., Grabber, J.H., Pan, X. & Ralph, J. "Epigallocatechin gallate incorporation into lignin enhances the alkaline delignification and enzymatic saccharification of cell walls." Biotechnology for Biofuels 5, 59+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-5-59]