38th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

Feedstock quality: A poorly understood but critical aspect for the development of a biorefining industry
David N. Thompson, Chenlin Li, John E. Aston, Jeffrey A. Lacey, Vicki Thompson, C. Luke Williams, Rachel M. Emerson, Amber N. Hoover and Garold L. Gresham, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA

Field productivities of Napier grass for production of sugars and ethanol.
Bruce S. Dien¹, William F. Anderson², Marshall Lamb³, Patricia J. O'Bryan⁴ and Patricia J. Slininger⁴, (1)USDA-ARS, Peoria, IL, USA, (2)USDA, ARS, Tifton, GA, USA, (3)NATIONAL PEANUT RESEARCH LAB., Dawson, GA, USA, (4)National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA-ARS, Peoria, IL, USA

Quantifying Biomass Feedstock Variability Using the DOE Bioenergy Feedstock Library
Rachel Emerson, Victor Walker, Amber Hoover, Marnie Cortez, Robert Kinoshita and Garold L. Gresham, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA

Interannual climate variability affects the microbial response to and fermentability of lignocellulosic biofuel crops
Rebecca Garlock Ong¹, Yaoping Zhang², Donna Bates², Scott Bottoms², David Cavalier³, Charles Donald, Jr.¹, Dustin Eilert², Alan Higbee², Li Hinchman⁴, Margaret Krueger¹, Lawrence Gary Oates², Jeff Piotrowski², Edward Pohlmann², Gregg Sanford², Jose Serate², Scott Smith³ and Dan Xie², (1)Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, (3)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, (4)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA

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Investigation of cell wall properties of xylan deficient IRX mutants and relation to enzymatic digestibility in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jacob Crowe¹, Jacob Jensen¹ and David B. Hodge², (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Advanced immunological methods for comprehensive analysis of recalcitrant cell wall components in AFEX^TM   pretreated corn ztover using glycan-directed monoclonal antibodies
Saisi Xue¹, Sivakumar Pattathil², Nirmal Uppugundla³, Christa Gunawan³, Lee Alexander⁴, Michael J. Bowman⁵, Leonardo da Costa Sousa⁶, Bruce Dale³ and Venkatesh Balan¹, (1)DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI, USA, (2)Bioenergy Science Center (BESC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, (3)DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA, (4)Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA, (5)United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA, (6)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA

Tissue-specific distribution of lignin and hemicelluloses in sugarcane hybrids presenting varied recalcitrance
André Ferraz¹, Thales H. Costa², Miguel E. Bega-Sanchez², Dr. Adriane M. F. Milagres² and Henrik V. Scheller³, (1)Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Universidade de São Paulo, Lorena, Brazil, (2)Escola de Engenharia de Lorena -University of São Paulo, Lorena, Brazil, (3)The Joint BioEnergy Institute, Bereley, CA, USA