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Robert A. Blanchette
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 274
Citations - 15516
Robert A. Blanchette is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lignin & Phanerochaete. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 269 publications receiving 14118 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. Blanchette include Clariant & United States Department of Agriculture.
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Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Wood and Wood Components
TL;DR: The oil crisis during the 1970s turned interest towards the utilization of renewable resources and towards lignocellulosics in particular, and the commercial utilization of this technology has not progressed as rapidly as one would have desired.
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The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes
Dimitrios Floudas,Manfred Binder,Robert Riley,Kerrie Barry,Robert A. Blanchette,Bernard Henrissat,Ángel T. Martínez,Robert Otillar,Joseph W. Spatafora,Jagjit S. Yadav,Andrea Aerts,Isabelle Benoit,Alexander Boyd,Alexis Carlson,Alex Copeland,Pedro M. Coutinho,Ronald P. de Vries,Patricia Ferreira,Keisha Findley,Brian Foster,Jill Gaskell,Dylan Glotzer,Paweł Górecki,Joseph Heitman,Cedar N. Hesse,Chiaki Hori,Kiyohiko Igarashi,Joel A. Jurgens,Nathan M Kallen,Phil Kersten,Annegret Kohler,Ursula Kües,T. K. Arun Kumar,Alan Kuo,Kurt LaButti,Luis F. Larrondo,Erika Lindquist,Albee Y. Ling,Vincent Lombard,Susan Lucas,Taina Lundell,Rachael Martin,David J. McLaughlin,Ingo Morgenstern,Emanuelle Morin,Claude Murat,László Nagy,Matthew J Nolan,Robin A. Ohm,Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva,Antonis Rokas,Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas,Grzegorz Sabat,Asaf Salamov,Masahiro Samejima,Jeremy Schmutz,Jason C. Slot,Franz J. St John,Jan Stenlid,Hui Sun,Sheng Sun,Khajamohiddin Syed,Adrian Tsang,Ad Wiebenga,Darcy Young,Antonio G. Pisabarro,Daniel C. Eastwood,Francis Martin,Dan Cullen,Igor V. Grigoriev,David S. Hibbett +70 more
TL;DR: Comparative analyses of 31 fungal genomes suggest that lignin-degrading peroxidases expanded in the lineage leading to the ancestor of the Agaricomycetes, which is reconstructed as a white rot species, and then contracted in parallel lineages leading to brown rot and mycorrhizal species.
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Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi
Robert Riley,Asaf Salamov,Daren W. Brown,László Nagy,Dimitrios Floudas,Benjamin W. Held,Anthony Levasseur,Vincent Lombard,Emmanuelle Morin,Robert Otillar,Erika Lindquist,Hui Sun,Kurt LaButti,Jeremy Schmutz,Dina Jabbour,Hong Luo,Scott E. Baker,Antonio G. Pisabarro,Jonathan D. Walton,Robert A. Blanchette,Bernard Henrissat,Francis Martin,Daniel Cullen,David S. Hibbett,Igor V. Grigoriev +24 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the prevailing paradigm of white rot vs. brown rot does not capture the diversity of fungal wood decay mechanisms, and suggest a continuum rather than a dichotomy between the white-rot and brown-rot modes of wood decay.
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Effects of fungal degradation on the CuO oxidation products of lignin: A controlled laboratory study
TL;DR: In this article, the white-rot fungus Phlebia tremellosus was found to increase the H/C and O/C of the remnant wood by preferentially degrading the lignin component of the middle lamellae.
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Delignification by wood-decay fungi
TL;DR: In this paper, a decomposition pathway for decay by some fungi in the Basidiomycotina, such as those that cause brown rots, involves the degradation of all wood carbohydrates, including crystalline cellulose.