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• How biotech can transform biofuels.

  For cellulosic ethanol to become a reality, biotechnological solutions should focus on optimizing the conversion of biomass to sugars.

  Authors: Lee R Lynd, Mark S Laser, David Bransby, Bruce E Dale, Brian Davison, Richard Hamilton, Michael Himmel, Martin Keller, James D McMillan, John Sheehan,…

  Source: Nature biotechnology. 2008 Feb

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• Cradle-to-grave' assessment of existing lignocellulose pretreatment technologies.

  Pretreatment is considered to be a central unit process in a biorefinery to convert lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals, affecting all ot…

  Authors: Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Shishir P S Chundawat, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Current opinion in biotechnology. 2009 Jun

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• Effects of nitrogen fertilizer application on greenhouse gas emissions and economics of corn production.

  Nitrogen fertilizer plays an important role in corn cultivation in terms of both economic and environmental aspects. Nitrogen fertilizer positively af…

  Authors: Seungdo Kim, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Environmental science & technology. 2008 Aug 15

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• Energy and greenhouse gas profiles of polyhydroxybutyrates derived from corn grain: a life cycle perspective.

  Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB) are well-known biopolymers derived from sugars orvegetable oils. Cradle-to-gate environmental performance of PHB derived fr…

  Authors: Seungdo Kim, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Environmental science & technology. 2008 Oct 15

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• Biofuels, land use change, and greenhouse gas emissions: some unexplored variables.

  Greenhouse gas release from land use change (the so-called "carbon debt") has been identified as a potentially significant contributor to the environm…

  Authors: Hyungtae Kim, Seungdo Kim, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Environmental science & technology. 2009 Feb 1

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• Life cycle assessment of fuel ethanol derived from corn grain via dry milling.

  Life cycle analysis enables to investigate environmental performance of fuel ethanol used in an E10 fueled compact passenger vehicle. Ethanol is deriv…

  Authors: Seungdo Kim, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Bioresource technology. 2008 Aug

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• Ethanolic fermentation of hydrolysates from ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) treated corn stover and distillers grain without detoxification and external nutrient supplementation.

  External nutrient supplementation and detoxification of hydrolysate significantly increase the production cost of cellulosic ethanol. In this study, w…

  Authors: Ming W Lau, Bruce E Dale, Venkatesh Balan

  Source: Biotechnology and bioengineering. 2008 Feb 15

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• High-throughput microplate technique for enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.

  Several factors will influence the viability of a biochemical platform for manufacturing lignocellulosic based fuels and chemicals, for example, genet…

  Authors: Shishir P S Chundawat, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Biotechnology and bioengineering. 2008 Apr 15

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• Kinetics of contaminant desorption from soil: comparison of model formulations using the Akaike information criterion.

  Desorption of organic contaminants from soil can be modeled by dividing the desorption time-concentration profile into three distinct regimes. These a…

  Authors: Christopher M Saffron, Jeong-Hun Park, Bruce E Dale, Thomas C Voice

  Source: Environmental science & technology. 2006 Dec 15

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• Mixture optimization of six core glycosyl hydrolases for maximizing saccharification of ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreated corn stover.

  In this work, six core glycosyl hydrolases (GH) were isolated and purified from various sources to help rationally optimize an enzyme cocktail to dige…

  Authors: Dahai Gao, Shishir P S Chundawat, Chandraraj Krishnan, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E Dale

  Source: Bioresource technology. 2010 Apr

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