Glycosyl residue composition of cell wall extracts from tillers of switchgrass WT and PvGAUT4-KD plants
Glycosyl residue composition of cell wall extracts from tillers of switchgrass WT and PvGAUT4-KD plants
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Glycosyl residue composition of cell wall extracts from tillers of switchgrass WT and PvGAUT4-KD plants
Glycosyl residue composition and total carbohydrate in cell wall extracts from WT and PvGAUT4-KD lines
Glycosyl residue composition of cell wall extracts from stems of P. deltoides WT, vector control and PdGAUT4-KD plants
Glycosyl residue composition and total carbohydrate of cell wall extracts from WT and PdGAUT4-KD lines
Sugar release and growth of biofuel crops are improved by downregulation of pectin biosynthesis
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Phylogenetic tree of GAUT Protein Family and gene model, RNAi construct, and relative transcript abundance of GAUT4 in switchgrass, rice and poplar knockdown (KD) lines.
Glycosyl linkage analysis of fractionated cell walls from switchgrass WT and PvGAUT4-KD lines
Glycosyl linkage analysis of fractionated cell walls from P.deltoides WT and PdGAUT4-KD lines.
The production of aviation biofuel precursors from biomass-derived ketones by heterogeneous catalysis has been hindered by the low catalytic activity. Herein, a series of Cu-doped metal oxide catalysts were prepared for the conversion of biomass-derived ketones to aviation biofuel precursors. Solvent-free cyclopentanone conversion via aldol condensation reached 91.1 % over Cu/Al 2 O 3 with 100 % selectivity toward dimer and trimer oxygenated species, all of which are aviation biofuel precursors. This catalyst primarily contains Cu 2 O and Cu nanoparticles which are uniformly dispersed across the Al 2 O 3 surface. From in situ DRIFTS and DFT results, the incorporation of Cu species onto Al 2 O 3 not only increased the diversity of Lewis acidic sites, but also changed the adsorption of C = O groups, which lead to the increased aldol condensation activity of Cu/Al 2 O 3 . In conclusion, this study provides insight on the design of heterogeneous catalysts suitable for the solvent-free synthesis of aviation biofuel precursors from biomass-derived ketones.
An extreme biomass-burning event occurred in Indonesia from September through October 2015 due to severe drought conditions, partially caused by a major El Nino event, thereby allowing for significant burning of peatland that had been previously drained. This event had the highest sustained aerosol optical depths (AOD) ever monitored by the global Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). The newly developed AERONET Version 3 algorithms retain high AOD at the longer wavelengths when associated with high Angstrom Exponents (AEs), which thereby allowed for measurements of AOD at 675 nanometers as high as approximately 7, the upper limit of Sun photometry. Measured AEs at the highest monitored AOD levels were subsequently utilized to estimate instantaneous values of AOD at 550 nanometers in the range of 11 to 13, well beyond the upper measurement limit. Additionally, retrievals of complex refractive indices, size distributions, and single scattering albedos (SSA) were obtained at much higher AOD levels than possible from almucantar scans due to the ability to perform retrievals at smaller solar zenith angles with new hybrid sky radiance scans. For retrievals made at the highest AOD levels the fine mode volume median radii were approximately 0.25 to 0.30 microns, which are very large particles for biomass burning. Very high SSA values (approximately 0.975 from 440 to 1020 nanometers) are consistent with the domination by smoldering combustion of peat burning. Estimates of the percentage peat contribution to total biomass burning aerosol based on retrieved SSA and laboratory measured peat SSA were approximately 80-85 percent, in excellent agreement with independent estimates.