Ionic liquids have shown promising results in biomass pretreatment; however, an extensive water washing step is necessary. This fact increases not only the processing costs but also those associated with ionic liquid recovery step. In this work, Eucalyptus globulus wood pretreated two acetate-based liquids, namely 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate and choline acetate, has been washed increasi...

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics has greatly benefitted from enormous advances in high resolution instrumentation in recent years. In particular, the combination of a linear ion trap with the Orbitrap analyzer has proven to be a popular instrument configuration. Complementing this hybrid trap-trap instrument, as well as the standalone Orbitrap analyzer termed Exactive, we here present couplin...

Paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) and three trembling aspen clones (Populus tremuloides Michx.) were studied to determine if alterations in carbon gain in response to an elevated concentration of CO(2) ([CO(2)]) or O(3) ([O(3)]) or a combination of both affected bud size and carbohydrate composition in autumn, and early leaf development in the following spring. The trees were measured for ...

Trembling aspen covers a large geographic range in North America, and previous studies reported that a better understanding of its singular influence on soil properties and processes is of high relevance for global change questions. Here we investigate the potential impact of a shift in aspen abundance on soil carbon sequestration and soil carbon stability at the continental scale by conducting...

Because forest stand structure, age, and productivity can mediate the impacts of climate on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) mortality, ignoring stand-scale factors limits inference on the drivers of recent sudden aspen decline. Using the proportion of aspen trees that were dead as an index of recent mortality at 841 forest inventory plots, we examined the relationship of this mortality inde...

The ecosystem consequences of intraspecific genetic variation is an emerging field of research that strengthens the link between population and ecosystem ecology. Despite recent advances, it remains unclear under what conditions (abiotic and biotic) plant genetic variation will be important to belowground processes. Forest canopy herbivores can have large influences on soil processes by alterin...

Belanger, R. R., Falk, S. P., Manion, P. D., and Griffin, D. H. 1989. Tissue culture and leaf spot bioassays as variables in regression models explaining Hypoxylon mammatum incidence on Populus tremuloides clones in the field. Phytopathology 79:318-321. Regression models were used to interpret the relationships among H. mammatum. High positive correlations among bioassays, with various sensitiv...

Laboratory-scale experimental studies have demonstrated that Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) is an advanced technology which holds great potential for high-efficiency low-cost carbon capture. The generated syngas in CLC is subsequently oxidized to CO2 and H2O by reaction with an oxygen carrier. In this paper, process-level models of CLC are established in ASPEN Plus code for detailed simulati...