A glycosyl transferase family 43 protein involved in xylan biosynthesis is associated with straw digestibility in Brachypodium distachyon

Whitehead, C., Ostos Garrido, F. J., Reymond, M., Simister, R., Distelfeld, A., Atienza, S. G., Piston, F., Gomez, L. D. & Mcqueen-Mason, S. J., 25 Mar 2018

Article in The New phytologist

An ancient family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with roles in arthropod development and biomass digestion

Sabbadin, F., Hemsworth, G. R., Ciano, L., Henrissat, B., Dupree, P., Tryfona, T., Marques, R. D. S., Sweeney, S. T., Besser, K., Elias, L., Pesante, G., Li, Y., Dowle, A. A., Bates, R., Gomez, L. D., Simister, R., Davies, G. J., Walton, P. H., Bruce, N. C. & McQueen-Mason, S. J., 22 Feb 2018

Article in Nature Communications

Biomass recalcitrance in barley, wheat and triticale straw: Correlation of biomass quality with classic agronomical traits

Ostos Garrido, F. J., Pistón, F., Gómez, L. D. & McQueen-Mason, S. J., 7 Nov 2018

Article in PLoS ONE

Defining functional diversity for lignocellulose degradation in a microbial community using multi-omics studies

Alessi, A., Bird, S., Oates, N. C., Li, Y., Dowle, A. A., Novotny, E., deAzevedo, E., Bennett, J. P., Polikarpov, I., Young, J. P. W., McQueen Mason, S. J. & Bruce, N. C., 18 Jun 2018

Article in Biotechnology for biofuels

Detailed phytochemical analysis of high- and low artemisinin-producing chemotypes of Artemisia annua.

Czechowski, T., Larson, TR., Catania, T. M., Harvey, D., Wei, C., Essome, M., Brown, GD. & Graham, I. A., 18 May 2018

Article in Frontiers in Plant Science

Engineering mannitol biosynthesis in Escherichia coli and Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 using a green algal fusion protein

Madsen, M. A., Semerdzhiev, S., Amtmann, A. & Tonon, T., 8 Nov 2018

Article in ACS Synthetic Biology

Functional and informatics analysis enables glycosyltransferase activity prediction

Yang, M., Fehl, C., Lees, K. V., Lim, E-K., Offen, W. A., Davies, G. J., Bowles, D. J., Davidson, M. G., Roberts, S. J. & Davis, B. G., 12 Nov 2018

Article in NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

Besser, K., Malyon, G. P., Eborall, W. S., Paro da Cunha, G., Goncalves Filgueiras, J., Dowle, A., Cruz Garcia, L., Page, S. J., Dupree, R., Kern, M. F., Gomez, L. D., Li, Y., Elias, L., Sabbadin, F., Mohamad, S. E., Pesante, G., Steele-King, C. G., Ribeiro de Azevedo, E., Polikarpov, I., Dupree, P. & 3 others, Cragg, S. M., Bruce, N. C. & McQueen Mason, S. J., 3 Dec 2018

Article in Nature Communications

Isoprostanoids quantitative profiling of marine red and brown macroalgae

Vigor, C., Reversat, G., Rocher, A., Oger, C., Galano, J-M., Vercauteren, J., Durand, T., Tonon, T., Leblanc, C. & Potin, P., 1 Dec 2018

Article in Food Chemistry

Low-oxygen response is triggered by an ATP-dependent shift in oleoyl-CoA in Arabidopsis

Schmidt, R., Fulda, M., Paul, M., Anders, M., Plum, F., Weits, D., Kosmacz, M., Larson, T., Graham, I. A., Beemster, G., Licausi, F., Gelgenberger, P., Schippers, J. & van Dongen, J. T., 18 Dec 2018

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America