Research Theme: Sustainability

Commercially Viable Biomanufacturing: Designer Yeast Turns Sugar into Lucrative Chemical 3-HP

Type: News

Themes: Conversion, Sustainability

Keywords: Bioproducts, Life Cycle Assessment, Metabolic Engineering, News, Technoeconomic Analysis

High Yield Production of 3-hydroxypropionic Acid using Issatchenkia orientalis

Type: Publication

Themes: Conversion, Sustainability

Keywords: Bioproducts, Metabolic Engineering, Technoeconomic Analysis

Supplementing Biofuel Mandates with a Carbon Mitigation Policy Can Lead to Water Quality Co-benefits

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuel Production, Carbon, Water

Lost and Found: Rediscovering Microbiome-Associated Phenotypes that Reshape Agricultural Sustainability

Type: Dataset

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Agroecosystem, Metabolomics, Microbiome, RNA Sequencing

Lost and Found: Rediscovering Microbiome-Associated Phenotypes that Reshape Agricultural Sustainability

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Agroecosystem, Microbiome

How do Hydrological Variability and Human Activities Control the Spatiotemporal Changes of Riverine Nitrogen Export in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Hydrology, Nitrogen

Characterizing the Potential for Sustainable Azelaic Acid Production from High-Oleic Vegetable Oil Using Two-Step Oxidative Cleavage Method

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Bioproducts, Life Cycle Assessment, Technoeconomic Analysis

Climatic and Socioeconomic Drivers of Water Use and Their Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Small and Mid-Sized Cities in the Contiguous United States

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Water

Dataset for “Climatic and Socioeconomic Drivers of Water Use and Their Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Small and Mid-Sized Cities in the Contiguous United States”

Type: Dataset

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Modeling, Water

Yield From Iowa’s First Commercial Miscanthus Fields: Implications of Spatial Variability for Productivity and Sustainability Beyond Research Plots

Type: Publication

Themes: Feedstock Production, Sustainability

Keywords: Economics, Field Data, Land Management, Marginal Land, Miscanthus, Modeling, Remote Sensing, Yield

Bioenergy Crops Could Cut Aviation Emissions by 80%, Illinois-led Study Finds

Type: News

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuel Production, Carbon, Economics, Greenhouse Gas, Life Cycle Assessment, Miscanthus, News, Policy, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Land Conversion to Energy Crops for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Soil Oxygen Dynamics: A Key Mediator of Tile Drainage Impacts on Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Crop Systems

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Hydrology, Soil

The Coming of Age of Miscanthus

Type: News

Themes: Feedstock Production, Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuel Production, Bioproducts, Economics, Feedstock Bioprocessing, Gene Editing, Genomics, Miscanthus, News, Perennial Bioenergy Grasses, Plant Transformation

Signatures of Local Nitrogen Adaptation in the Brachypodium distachyon Root Microbiome

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Microbiome, Nitrogen, Roots