Crown and rhizome transcriptomes from upland and lowland tetraploid switchgrasses
Gautam Sarath¹, Nathan A. Palmer¹, Aaron J. Saathoff¹, Christian Tobias², Paul Twigg³, Kenneth P. Vogel¹ and Madhavan Soundararajan⁴, (1)Grain, Forage and Bioenergy Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE, (2)Western Regional Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, CA, (3)Biology, University of Nebraska, Kearney, Kearney, NE, (4)Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

A systems approach to reducing biomass recalcitrance by modifying glucuronoxylan biosynthesis
Breeanna Urbanowicz, Maria J Pena, Jason Backe, Supriya Ratnaparkhe, Utku Avci, Malcolm A O'Neill and William S York, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Enhanced hydrolysis of lignocellulosic feedstocks through in planta expression of cell wall degrading enzymes
Philip A. Lessard, Agrivida, Inc., Medford, MA

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Elucidating the genetic basis of sugar accumulation in sweet sorghum using high-throughput gene expression profiling of heterogeneous inbred families
Ana Saballos¹, Justin Fear², Terry Felderhoff³, Seth Murray⁴, William L. Rooney⁴, Stephen Kresovich⁵ and Wilfred Vermerris¹, (1)Genetics Institute and Agronomy department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (2)Genetics Institute and Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (3)Graduate Program in Genetics & Genomics, University of Florida Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL, (4)Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (5)Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Improved biomass and bioprocessing properties of lignocellulosic forest feedstocks
Ewa Mellerowicz¹, Björn Sundberg¹, Leif Jönsson² and Hannele Tuominen³, (1)Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden, (2)Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (3)Umeå University, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden

Identification and characterization of Cal-1, a high glucan maize mutant
Markus Pauly¹, Florian Kraemer¹, Ben Kuhn¹ and Sarah Hake², (1)UC Berkeley / Energy Biosciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, (2)USDA Albany, Albany, CA