Latest Publications

Latest Publications

Reddy, A.P.*, C.W. Simmons*, P. D’haeseleer, J. Khudyakov, H. Burd, B.A. Simmons, S. Singer, M. Thelen, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2013. Discovery of microorganisms and enzymes involved in high-solids decomposition of rice straw using metagenomic analyses. PLoS ONE (in press). *These authors contributed equally to this work

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Simmons, C.W., A.P. Reddy, L. Jabusch, M.N. Marshall, B.A. Simmons, S. Singer, J.J. Stapleton, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2013. Characterization of bacterial communities in solarized soil amended with lignocellulosic organic matter. Applied Soil Ecology (in press).

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Simmons, C.W., H-Y. Guo, J. Claypool, M.N. Marshall, K. Perano, J.J. Stapleton, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2012. Managing compost stability and amendment to soil to enhance soil heating during soil solarization. Waste Management 33(5):1090-1096.

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Simmons, C.W., J.S. VanderGheynst, and N. Nitin. 2012. Rapid, in-situ detection of Agrobacterium tumefaciens attachment to leaf tissue. Biotechnology Progress 28(5):1321-1328.

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Reddy, A.P., C.W. Simmons, J. Claypool, L. Jabusch, B.A. Simmons, S. Singer, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2012. Thermophilic enrichment of microbial communities in the presence of the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate. Journal of Applied Microbiology 113(6):1362-1370.

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Luo, Z., C.W. Simmons, J.S. VanderGheynst, and N. Nitin. 2012. Quantitative real-time measurements of bacteria-bacteriophages interactions in fresh lettuce leaves. Journal of Food Engineering 111(1):176-185.

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Zheng, Y., C. Yu, Y-S. Cheng, C. Lee, C.W. Simmons, T.M. Dooley, R. Zhang, B.M. Jenkins, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2012. Integrating sugar beet pulp storage, hydrolysis and fermentation for fuel ethanol production. Applied Energy 93:168-175.

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Zheng, Y., C. Lee, C. Yu, Y-S. Cheng, C.W. Simmons, R. Zhang, B. Jenkins, and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2012. Ensilage and Bioconversion of Grape Pomace into Fuel Ethanol. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 60(44):11128-11134.

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Simmons, C.W., J.S. VanderGheynst and S.K. Upadhyaya. 2009. A model of Agrobacterium tumefaciens vacuum infiltration into harvested leaf tissue and subsequent in planta transgene transient expression. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 102(3): 965-970.

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VanderGheynst, J.S., H.-Y. Gou and C.W. Simmons. 2008. Response surface studies that elucidate the role of infiltration conditions on Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transient transgene expression in harvested switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Biomass and Bioenergy. 32(4): 372-379.

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Simmons, C.W. and J.S. VanderGheynst. 2007. Transient co-expression of post-transcriptional gene silencing suppressors and beta-glucuronidase in harvested lettuce leaf tissue does not improve recombinant protein accumulation in planta. Biotechnology Letters. 29:641-645.

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