Publications

De Meester, B., Calderón, B.M., de Vries, L., Pollier, J., Goeminne, G., Van Doorsselaere, J., Chen, M., Ralph, J., Vanholme, R. & Boerjan, W. "Tailoring poplar lignin without yield penalty by combining a null and haploinsufficient CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE2 allele." Nature Communications 11,1, 5020+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18822-w]

del Rio, J.C., Rencoret, J., Gutierrez, A., Elder, T., Kim, H. & Ralph, J. "Lignin monomers from beyond the canonical monolignol biosynthetic pathway: another brick in the wall." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8,13, 4997–5012+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c01109]

Demir, B., Kropp, T., Rivera-Dones, K.R., Gilcher, E.B., Huber, G.W., Mavrikakis, M. & Dumesic, J.A. "A self-adjusting platinum surface for acetone hydrogenation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117,7, 3446–3450+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917110117]

Dharampal, P.S., Diaz-Garcia, L., Haase, M.A.B., Zalapa, J., Currie, C.R., Hittinger, C.T. & Steffan, S.A. "Microbial diversity associated with the pollen stores of captive-bred bumble bee colonies." Insects 11,4, 250+ (2020). [DOI: 10.3390/insects11040250]

Dirks, A.C. & Jackson, R.D. "Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of switchgrass harvested for bioenergy." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86,19, e00880–20+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00880-20]

Doud, D.F.R., Bowers, R.M., Schulz, F., De Raad, M., Deng, K., Tarver, A., Glasgow, E., Meulen, K.V., Fox, B., Deutsch, S., et al. "Function-driven single-cell genomics uncovers cellulose-degrading bacteria from the rare biosphere." The ISME Journal 14, 659–675+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0557-y]

Elder, T., del Rio, J.C., Ralph, J., Rencoret, J., Kim, H., Beckham, G.T. & Crowley, M.F. "Coupling and reactions of lignols and new lignin monomers: a density functional theory study." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8,30, 11033–11045+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c02880]

Emery, S.M., Stahlheber, K.A. & Gross, K.L. "Drought minimized nitrogen fertilization effects on bioenergy feedstock quality." Biomass and Bioenergy 133, 105452+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2019.105452]

Eugene, A., Lapierre, C. & Ralph, J. "Improved analysis of arabinoxylan-bound hydroxycinnamate conjugates in grass cell walls." Biotechnology for Biofuels 13,1, 202+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1186/s13068-020-01841-6]

Fan, P., Wang, P., Lou, Y.-R., Leong, B.J., Moore, B.M., Schenck, C.A., Combs, R., Cao, P., Brandizzi, F., Shiu, S.-H., et al. "Evolution of a plant gene cluster in Solanaceae and emergence of metabolic diversity." eLife 9, e56717+ (2020). [DOI: 10.7554/eLife.56717]

Galebach, P.H., Soeherman, J.K., Gilcher, E.B., Wittrig, A.M., Johnson, J., Fredriksen, T., Wang, C., Lanci, M.P., Dumesic, J.A. & Huber, G.W. "Production of renewable alcohols from maple wood using supercritical methanol hydrodeoxygenation in a semi-continuous flowthrough reactor." Green Chemistry 22,23, 8462–8477+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03218B]

Gambacorta, F.V., Dietrich, J.J., Yan, Q. & Pfleger, B.F. "Rewiring yeast metabolism to synthesize products beyond ethanol." Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 59, 182–192+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.08.005]

Gelfand, I., Hamilton, S.K., Kravchenko, A.N., Jackson, R.D., Thelen, K.D. & Robertson, P. "Empirical evidence for the potential climate benefits of decarbonizing light vehicle transport in the U.S. with bioenergy from purpose-grown biomass with and without BECCS." Environmental Science & Technology 54,5, 2961–2974+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07019]

Glasgow, E.M., Kemna, E.I., Bingman, C.A., Ing, N., Deng, K., Bianchetti, C.M., Takasuka, T.E., Northen, T.R. & Fox, B.G. "A structural and kinetic survey of GH5_4 endoglucanases reveals determinants of broad substrate specificity and opportunities for biomass hydrolysis." Journal of Biological Chemistry 295,51, 17752–17769+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.015328]

Gomez, F.E., Mullet, J.E., Muliana, A.H., Niklas, K.J. & Rooney, W.L. "The genetic architecture of biomechanical traits in sorghum." Crop Science 60,1, 82–99+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1002/csc2.20049]

Gordon, G.C., Cameron, J.C., Gupta, S.T.P., Engstrom, M.D., Reed, J.L. & Pfleger, B.F. "Genome-wide analysis of RNA decay in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002." mSystems 5,4, e00224–20+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00224-20]

Haan, N.L. & Landis, D.A. "Grassland disturbance effects on first-instar monarch butterfly survival, floral resources, and flower-visiting insects." Biological Conservation 243, 108492+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108492]

Haan, N.L., Zhang, Y. & Landis, D.A. "Predicting landscape configuration effects on agricultural pest suppression." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35,2, 175–186+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.003]

Hamilton, J.P., Godden, G.T., Lanier, E., Bhat, W.W., Kinser, T.J., Vaillancourt, B., Wang, H., Wood, J.C., Jiang, J., Soltis, P.S., et al. "Generation of a chromosome-scale genome assembly of the insect-repellent terpenoid-producing Lamiaceae species, Callicarpa americana." GigaScience 9,9, giaa093+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa093]

Helms, J.A., IV, Ijelu, S.E., Wills, B.D., Landis, D.A. & Haddad, N.M. "Ant biodiversity and ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 290, 106780+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2019.106780]

Henry, K.K., Ross, W., Myers, K.S., Lemmer, K.C., Vera, J.M., Landick, R., Donohue, T.J. & Gourse, R.L. "A majority of Rhodobacter sphaeroides promoters lack a crucial RNA polymerase recognition feature, enabling coordinated transcription activation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117,47, 29658–29668+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010087117]

Hose, J., Escalante, L.E., Clowers, K.J., Dutcher, A., Robinson, D.E., Bouriakov, V., Coon, J.J., Shishkova, E. & Gasch, A.P. "The genetic basis of aneuploidy tolerance in wild yeast." eLIFE 9, e52063+ (2020). [DOI: 10.7554/eLife.52063]

Huang, K., Fasahati, P. & Maravelias, C.T. "System-level analysis of lignin valorization in lignocellulosic biorefineries." iScience 23,1, 100751+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100751]

Hussain, M.Z., Robertson, P., Basso, B. & Hamilton, S.K. "Leaching losses of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from agricultural soils in the upper US Midwest." Science of The Total Environment 734, 139379+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139379]

Jach-Smith, L.C. & Jackson, R.D. "Inorganic N addition replaces N supplied to switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi." Ecological Applications 30,2, e02047+ (2020). [DOI: 10.1002/eap.2047]