Holly L. Baxter

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of produced water on traditional bioenergy feedstocks and novel biofuel feedstock species in Wyoming indicated that produced water can be used for short-period irrigation of crops, however, prolonged use of untreated produced water for irrigation would likely have deleterious long-term effects on the soil and plants unless the water was treated or diluted with good-quality water.

TL;DR: The expression of a switchgrass arabinoxylan biosynthesis pathway gene, PvUAM1, was decreased via RNAi to investigate its role in cell wall recalcitrance in the feedstock and found it had increased cellulose and lignin in cell walls.

TL;DR: Results show that the manipulation of the cellulose synthase genes alters the cell wall composition and availability of cellulose as a bioprocessing substrate.

TL;DR: Results of this study emphasize the importance of performing multiyear field studies for plants with altered regulatory transgenes that target plant growth and development, and analysed important bioenergy feedstock traits such as flowering, disease resistance, cell wall chemistry and biofuel production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of two independent lines of COMT-downregulated switchgrass plants on soils in terms of chemistry, microbiology, and carbon cycling when grown in the field were evaluated.