Publications

When it comes to interdisciplinary collaboration, the titles of GLBRC publications speak for themselves. Each new year of operation has seen more publications from multiple labs that span our research themes, accelerating the Center's production of the basic research that generates technology to convert cellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels and bioproducts.
Year Publication Keywords
2025
Cueny, R.R., Voter, A.F., McKenzie, A.M., Morgenstern, M., Myers, K.S., Place, M.M., Peters, J.M., Coon, J.J. & Keck, J.L. "Altering translation allows E. coli to overcome G-quadruplex stabilizers." Nucleic Acids Research 53,6, gkaf264+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf264]
2025
Dai, T., Ellebracht, N.C., Hunter-Sellars, E., Aui, A., Goldstein, H.M., Li, W., Hellwinckel, C.M., Price, L., Wong, A.A., Nico, P., et al. "Land-based resources for engineered carbon dioxide removal in the United States exceed the expected needs." One Earth 8,7, 101349+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101349]
2025
David, K.T., Schraiber, J.G., Crandall, J.G., Labella, A.L., Opulente, D.A., Harrison, M.-C., Wolters, J.F., Zhou, X., Shen, X.-X., Groenewald, M., et al. "Convergent expansions of keystone gene families drive metabolic innovation in Saccharomycotina yeasts." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122,23, e2500165122+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2500165122]
2025
del Río, J.C., Ralph, J., Benitez, J.J., Guzman-Puyol, S., Heredia-Guerrero, J.A. & Rencoret, J. "Elucidating the modes of incorporation of the ferulic acid amides feruloyltyramine and feruloyloctopamine into the lignin-suberin fraction of potato periderms." International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 319,Pt 3, 145570+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.145570]
2025
Deshavath, N.N., Nenavath, M.D., Woodruff, W., Kannan, B., Liu, H., Pidatala, V.R., Wolski, P., Xie, D., Taylor, K., Zhang, Y., et al. "Evaluating the industrial potential of emerging biomass pretreatment technologies in bioethanol production and lipid recovery from transgenic sugarcane." Sustainable Energy & Fuels 9,17, 4707–4719+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1039/D5SE00519A]
2025
Eagan, J.L., Digman, E.R., Boon, M. den, Regalado, R., Rawa, M.S.A., Horianopoulos, L.C., Hittinger, C.T., Hull, C.M. & Keller, N.P. "Patulin inhibition of specific apple microbiome members uncovers Hanseniaspora uvarum as a potential biocontrol agent." Phytopathology 115, 117–127+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-24-0189-R]
2025
Escalante, L.E., Hose, J., Ahrens, J.M., Howe, H., Paulsen, N., Liss, S.J., Place, M. & Gasch, A.P. "Chromosome duplication causes premature aging via defects in ribosome quality control." PLOS Biology 23,11, e3003509+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003509]
2025
Falvo, G. & Robertson, P. "Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation." Communications Earth & Environment 6, 425+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02291-4]
2025
Falvo, G., Zhang, Y., Abraha, M., Mosier, S., Su, Y.-J., Lei, C., Chen, J., Cotrufo, F. & Robertson, P. "Combining eddy covariance towers, field measurements, and the MEMS 2 ecosystem model improves confidence in the climate impacts of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage." Global Change Biology Bioenergy 17,3, e70023+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.70023]
2025
Fanelli, A., Smith, R.A., Reinhardt, L., Weimer, P.J. & Sullivan, M.L. "UDP-Glucuronic acid decarboxylase (UXS) in alfalfa: a target to improve ruminal digestibility of stems." Journal of Experimental Botany DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf541, eraf541+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf541]
2025
Feng, B., Li, Y., Xu, B., Liu, H., Steenwyk, J.L., David, K.T., Tian, X., Goncalves, C., Opulente, D.A., Labella, A.L., et al. "Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage." Molecular Systems Biology 21,8, 1066–1089+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1038/s44320-025-00118-0]
2025
Fu, J., James, B., Hetti-Arachchilage, M., Lie, Y., McKinley, B., Kurtz, E., Barry, K., Moose, S.P., Mullet, J.E., Swaminathan, K., et al. "Stage-resolved gene regulatory network analysis reveals developmental reprogramming and genes with robust stem-preferred expression in sorghum." BMC Plant Biology 25, 1275+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1186/s12870-025-07303-1]
2025
Geissler, C.H., Haan, N.L., Basso, B., Fowler, A., Landis, D.A., Lark, T.J. & Maravelias, C.T. "A multi-objective optimization model for cropland design considering profit, biodiversity, and ecosystem services." Ecological Modelling 500, 110954+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110954]
2025
Goncalves, C., Steenwyk, J.L., Rinker, D.C., Opulente, D.A., Labella, A.L., Harrison, M.-C., Wolters, J.F., Zhou, X., Shen, X.-X., Covo, S., et al. "Stable hypermutators revealed by the genomic landscape of genes involved in genome stability among yeast species." Molecular Biology and Evolution 42,11, msaf285+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf285]
2025
Cross, M.C.G., Aboulnaga, E. & TerAvest, M.A. "A small number of point mutations confer formate tolerance in Shewanella oneidensis." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 91,5, e01968–24+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1128/aem.01968-24]
2025
Hall, B.W., Neri, J.C., Bingman, C.A., Vilbert, A.C., Eckmann, J.B., Myers, K.S., Sibert, B.S., Wright, E.R., Fox, B.G., Kiley, P.J., et al. "MarK, a Novosphingobium aromaticivorans kinase required for catabolism of multiple aromatic monomers." Journal of Biological Chemistry 301,10, 110606+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110606]
2025
Hellinger, J., Ralph, J. & Karlen, S.D. "p‐Coumaroylated lignins are natively produced in three rosales families." ACS Omega 10,6, 6220–6227+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c11429]
2025
Hussain, M.Z., Hamilton, S.K., Basso, B. & Robertson, P. "Phosphorus budgets of intensively managed row crops at a long-term agroecosystem research site in the upper US Midwest." Journal of Environmental Quality 54,3, 720–731+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1002/jeq2.70000]
2025
Im, J.H., Kim, W.-C., Han, K.-H. & Ko, J.-H. "XERICO as a target for engineering stress-resilient crops: mechanisms, applications, and future directions." Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 225, 110013+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2025.110013]
2025
Im, J.H., Son, S., Jung, M.-Y., Ko, J.-H. & Han, K.-H. "MPK6-mediated phosphorylation destabilizes MYC2 and attenuates its transcriptional activity in jasmonate signaling." Plant Communications 6, 101465+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101465]
2025
Indibi, A., Cao, P., Brandizzi, F., Mortimer, J., Swaminathan, K., Tsai, C.-J. & Hamberger, B. "Through the lens of bioenergy crops: advances, bottlenecks, and promises of plant engineering." The Plant Journal 123,2, e70294+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1111/tpj.70294]
2025
Jang, S.-K., Kim, K.H., Unda, F., Mahon, E.L., Ralph, J. & Mansfield, S.D. "Genetically engineered poplar wood effectively enhances the efficiency of deep eutectic solvent-mediated one-pot processing." ChemSusChem 18,16, e2500891+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202500891]
2025
Jones, J.M., Benucci, G.M.N. & Evans, S.E. "Drought increases microbial allocation to stress tolerance but with few tradeoffs among community-level traits." Soil Biology and Biochemistry 205, 109787+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109787]
2025
Karaca-Bulut, M., Gonzales-Vigil, E., Muchero, W. & Mansfield, S.D. "Elucidating the drought-responsive changes in Poplar cuticular waxes: a GWAS analysis of genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis." Tree Physiology 45,13, 6–20+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpaf060]
2025
Kehlet-Delgado, H., Petipas, R.H., Antoch, A.A., Norman, J.S., Li, X., White, R.A., Evans, S.E., Tiemann, L.K. & Friesen, M.L. "Draft genome sequences of Burkholderia and Paraburkholderia strains isolated from Panicum virgatum soil and roots at the Lux Arbor Reserve in Michigan, USA." Microbiology Resource Announcements 14,11, e0088025+ (2025). [DOI: 10.1128/mra.00880-25]