1. Sources of Biomass Feedstock Variability and the Potential Impact on Biofuels Production

   • C. Luke Williams
   • Tyler L. Westover
   • Chenlin Li

   ReviewPaper Open access 23 November 2015 Pages: 1 - 14

   

2. Production of 2,3-Butanediol from Sucrose by a Klebsiella Species

   • Fengxue Xin
   • Anindya Basu
   • Jianzhong He

   OriginalPaper 11 July 2015 Pages: 15 - 22

   

3. CQESTR Simulated Changes in Soil Organic Carbon under Residue Management Practices in Continuous Corn Systems

   • Brian J. Wienhold
   • Marty R. Schmer
   • Hero Gollany

   OriginalPaper 21 July 2015 Pages: 23 - 30

   

4. Switchgrass Biofuel Production on Reclaimed Surface Mines: I. Soil Quality and Dry Matter Yield

   • Carol Brown
   • Thomas Griggs
   • Jeff Skousen

   OriginalPaper Open access 15 July 2015 Pages: 31 - 39

   

5. Switchgrass Biofuel Production on Reclaimed Surface Mines: II. Feedstock Quality and Theoretical Ethanol Production

   • Carol Brown
   • Thomas Griggs
   • Jeff Skousen

   OriginalPaper Open access 29 July 2015 Pages: 40 - 49

6. Grass Invasion into Switchgrass Managed for Biomass Energy

   • R. B. Mitchell
   • K. P. Vogel

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2015 Pages: 50 - 56

   

7. Solid Fuel Generation from Urban Leaf Litter in Mixture with Grass Cuttings: Chemical Composition, Energetic Characteristics, and Impact of Preprocessing

   • Meike Piepenschneider
   • Lutz Bühle
   • Michael Wachendorf

   OriginalPaper 16 August 2015 Pages: 57 - 66

   

8. Understanding the Physicochemical Characteristics and the Improved Enzymatic Saccharification of Corn Stover Pretreated with Aqueous and Gaseous Ammonia

   • Chang Geun Yoo
   • Hoon Kim
   • Tae Hyun Kim

   OriginalPaper Open access 16 August 2015 Pages: 67 - 76

   

9. Policy Implications of Allocation Methods in the Life Cycle Analysis of Integrated Corn and Corn Stover Ethanol Production

   • Christina E. Canter
   • Jennifer B. Dunn
   • Michael Wang

   OriginalPaper Open access 18 August 2015 Pages: 77 - 87

   

10. Bagasse Silage from Sweet Pearl Millet and Sweet Sorghum as Influenced by Harvest Dates and Delays between Biomass Chopping and Pressing

    • Amélia dos Passos Bernardes
    • Gaëtan F. Tremblay
    • Anne Vanasse

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2015 Pages: 88 - 97

    

11. Foliar Applications of Calcium Reduce and Delay Sugarcane Flowering

    • Lauricio Endres
    • Sihélio Júlio Silva da Cruz
    • João Antônio Carvalho Silva

    OriginalPaper 25 August 2015 Pages: 98 - 108

    

12. Targeted Switchgrass BAC Library Screening and Sequence Analysis Identifies Predicted Biomass and Stress Response-Related Genes

    • Manoj K. Sharma
    • Rita Sharma
    • Pamela C. Ronald

    OriginalPaper 30 August 2015 Pages: 109 - 122

    

13. Sweet Sorghum Juice and Bagasse as Feedstocks for the Production of Optically Pure Lactic Acid by Native and Engineered Bacillus coagulans Strains

    • Mark S. Ou
    • Deepika Awasthi
    • K. T. Shanmugam

    OriginalPaper 30 August 2015 Pages: 123 - 131

    

14. Context Matters—Using an Agent-Based Model to Investigate the Influence of Market Context on the Supply of Local Biomass for Anaerobic Digestion

    • Anouk Mertens
    • Jef Van Meensel
    • Jeroen Buysse

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2015 Pages: 132 - 145

    

15. Impact of Different Lignin Fractions on Saccharification Efficiency in Diverse Species of the Bioenergy Crop Miscanthus

    • Tim van der Weijde
    • Andres F. Torres
    • Luisa M. Trindade

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 September 2015 Pages: 146 - 156

    

16. Influence of Willow Biochar Amendment on Soil Nitrogen Availability and Greenhouse Gas Production in Two Fertilized Temperate Prairie Soils

    • R. D. Hangs
    • H. P. Ahmed
    • J. J. Schoenau

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2015 Pages: 157 - 171

    

17. Genome-Scale Identification of Cell-Wall-Related Genes in Switchgrass through Comparative Genomics and Computational Analyses of Transcriptomic Data

    • Xin Chen
    • Qin Ma
    • Ying Xu

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2015 Pages: 172 - 180

    

18. Valorization of Hemicelluloses: Production of Bioxylitol from Poplar Wood Prehydrolyzates by Candida guilliermondii FTI 20037

    • Lakmali Nilmini G. Vithanage
    • Aneli M. Barbosa
    • Robert F. H. Dekker

    OriginalPaper 14 September 2015 Pages: 181 - 197

    

19. Environmental Effects of Steam Explosion Pretreatment on Biogas from Maize—Case Study of a 500-kW Austrian Biogas Facility

    • Iris Kral
    • Gerhard Piringer
    • Alexander Bauer

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2015 Pages: 198 - 207

    

20. Feasibility of SRC Species for Growing in Mediterranean Conditions

    • Alejandra Navarro
    • Anna Maria Stellacci
    • Marcello Mastrorilli

    OriginalPaper 02 October 2015 Pages: 208 - 223

    

21. Life Cycle Assessment of New Willow Cultivars Grown as Feedstock for Integrated Biorefineries

    • M. Krzyżaniak
    • M. J. Stolarski
    • J. Tworkowski

    OriginalPaper Open access 10 October 2015 Pages: 224 - 238

    

22. Reduction of Ethanol Yield from Switchgrass Infected with Rust Caused by Puccinia emaculata

    • Virginia R. Sykes
    • Fred L. Allen
    • Kelsey L. Yee

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2015 Pages: 239 - 247

    

23. Sixteen-Year Biomass Yield and Soil Carbon Storage of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) Grown Under Variable Nitrogen Fertilization Rates

    • Andrea Monti
    • Walter Zegada-Lizarazu

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2015 Pages: 248 - 256

    

24. Restricting Second-Generation Energy Crop Production to Marginal Land

    • Amadou Gouzaye
    • Francis M. Epplin

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 257 - 269

    

25. Change in Yield Between First and Second Rotations in Willow (Salix spp.) Biomass Crops is Strongly Related to the Level of First Rotation Yield

    • Nathan J. Sleight
    • Timothy A. Volk
    • Penelope S. Pooler

    OriginalPaper 26 October 2015 Pages: 270 - 287

    

26. Dry Matter Losses and Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Outside Storage of Short Rotation Coppice Willow Chip

    • Carly Whittaker
    • Nicola E. Yates
    • Ian Shield

    OriginalPaper Open access 29 October 2015 Pages: 288 - 302

    

27. Compositional Analysis of Biomass Reference Materials: Results from an Interlaboratory Study

    • David W. Templeton
    • Edward J. Wolfrum
    • Katherine E. Sharpless

    OriginalPaper Open access 29 October 2015 Pages: 303 - 314

    

28. Discovery of Natural Interspecific Hybrids Between Miscanthus Sacchariflorus and Miscanthus Sinensis in Southern Japan: Morphological Characterization, Genetic Structure, and Origin

    • Ken-ichi Tamura
    • Naohiro Uwatoko
    • Mitsuru Gau

    OriginalPaper 07 November 2015 Pages: 315 - 325

    

29. Herbicide-based Weed Management in Miscanthus sacchariflorus

    • Jong-Seok Song
    • Soo-Hyun Lim
    • Do-Soon Kim

    OriginalPaper 07 November 2015 Pages: 326 - 334

    

30. Pretreatment of Miscanthus by NaOH/Urea Solution at Room Temperature for Enhancing Enzymatic Hydrolysis

    • Hongming Lou
    • Qiaoyan Hu
    • Xuliang Lin

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2015 Pages: 335 - 343

    

31. Effect of Microwave-Assisted Pretreatment Conditions on Hemicellulose Conversion and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Norway Spruce

    • S. Kuittinen
    • Y. Puentes Rodriguez
    • A. Pappinen

    OriginalPaper 19 November 2015 Pages: 344 - 354

    

32. Biochemical Conversion of Torrefied Norway Spruce After Pretreatment with Acid or Ionic Liquid

    • Monica Normark
    • Linda Pommer
    • Leif J. Jönsson

    OriginalPaper Open access 26 November 2015 Pages: 355 - 368

    

33. Lipid Yield and Composition of Azolla filiculoides and the Implications for Biodiesel Production

    • Paul Brouwer
    • Adrie van der Werf
    • Klaas G. J. Nierop

    BriefCommunication Open access 19 August 2015 Pages: 369 - 377

    

34. Erratum to: Effects of the Antibiotics Chlortetracycline and Enrofloxacin on the Anaerobic Digestion in Continuous Experiments

    • A. Bauer
    • J. Lizasoain
    • C. Winckler

    Erratum 28 December 2015 Pages: 378 - 378