Illinois Data Bank Dataset Search Results
Results
published:
2021-03-14
Kang, Jeon-Young; Michels, Alexander; Lyu, Fangzheng; Wang, Shaohua; Agbodo, Nelson; Freeman, Vincent L; Wang, Shaowen; Anand, Padmanabhan
(2021)
This dataset contains all the code, notebooks, datasets used in the study conducted to measure the spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources with a particular focus on Illinois, USA. Specifically, the dataset measures spatial access for people to hospitals and ICU beds in Illinois. The spatial accessibility is measured by the use of an enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2FCA) method (Luo & Qi, 2009), which is an outcome of interactions between demands (i.e, # of potential patients; people) and supply (i.e., # of beds or physicians). The result is a map of spatial accessibility to hospital beds. It identifies which regions need more healthcare resources, such as the number of ICU beds and ventilators. This notebook serves as a guideline of which areas need more beds in the fight against COVID-19.
## What's Inside
A quick explanation of the components of the zip file
* `COVID-19Acc.ipynb` is a notebook for calculating spatial accessibility and `COVID-19Acc.html` is an export of the notebook as HTML.
* `Data` contains all of the data necessary for calculations:
* `Chicago_Network.graphml`/`Illinois_Network.graphml` are GraphML files of the OSMNX street networks for Chicago and Illinois respectively.
* `GridFile/` has hexagonal gridfiles for Chicago and Illinois
* `HospitalData/` has shapefiles for the hospitals in Chicago and Illinois
* `IL_zip_covid19/COVIDZip.json` has JSON file which contains COVID cases by zip code from IDPH
* `PopData/` contains population data for Chicago and Illinois by census tract and zip code.
* `Result/` is where we write out the results of the spatial accessibility measures
* `SVI/`contains data about the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
* `img/` contains some images and HTML maps of the hospitals (the notebook generates the maps)
* `README.md` is the document you're currently reading!
* `requirements.txt` is a list of Python packages necessary to use the notebook (besides Jupyter/IPython). You can install the packages with `python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
keywords:
COVID-19; spatial accessibility; CyberGISX
published:
2025-12-05
Sahbaz, Furkan; Bogdanov, Simeon
(2025)
This dataset contains all raw data corresponding to the figures in the main text and appendices of the paper "Dispersion Engineering of Planar Sub-millimeter Wave Waveguides and Resonators with Low Radiation Loss."
keywords:
thz science; quantum information processing; quantum transduction; high energy physics; axion detection; ultra-sensitive detection
published:
2025-11-25
The diel activity of study animals while feeding at their kills in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
keywords:
Santa Cruz
published:
2020-11-18
This is the dataset that accompanies the paper titled "A Dual-Frequency Radar Retrieval of Snowfall Properties Using a Neural Network", submitted for peer review in August 2020. Please see the github for the most up-to-date data after the revision process: https://github.com/dopplerchase/Chase_et_al_2021_NN
Authors: Randy J. Chase, Stephen W. Nesbitt and Greg M. McFarquhar Corresponding author: Randy J. Chase (randyjc2@illinois.edu)
Here we have the data used in the manuscript. Please email me if you have specific questions about units etc.
1) DDA/GMM database of scattering properties: base_df_DDA.csv
This is the combined dataset from the following papers: Leinonen & Moisseev, 2015; Leinonen & Szyrmer, 2015; Lu et al., 2016; Kuo et al., 2016; Eriksson et al., 2018. The column names are D: Maximum dimension in meters, M: particle mass in grams kg, sigma_ku: backscatter cross-section at ku in m^2, sigma_ka: backscatter cross-section at ka in m^2, sigma_w: backscatter cross-section at w in m^2. The first column is just an index column.
2) Synthetic Data used to train and test the neural network: Unrimed_simulation_wholespecturm_train_V2.nc, Unrimed_simulation_wholespecturm_test_V2.nc
This was the result of combining the PSDs and DDA/GMM particles randomly to build the training and test dataset.
3) Notebook for training the network using the synthetic database and Google Colab (tensorflow): Train_Neural_Network_Chase2020.ipynb
This is the notebook used to train the neural network.
4)Trained tensorflow neural network: NN_6by8.h5 This is the hdf5 tensorflow model that resulted from the training. You will need this to run the retrieval.
5) Scalers needed to apply the neural network: scaler_X_V2.pkl, scaler_y_V2.pkl These are the sklearn scalers used in training the neural network. You will need these to scale your data if you wish to run the retrieval.
6) <b>New in this version</b> - Example notebook of how to run the trained neural network on Ku- Ka- band observations. We showed this with the 3rd case in the paper: Run_Chase2021_NN.ipynb
7) <b>New in this version</b> - APR data used to show how to run the neural network retrieval: Chase_2021_NN_APR03Dec2015.nc
The data for the analysis on the observations are not provided here because of the size of the radar data. Please see the GHRC website (<a href="https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/">https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/</a>) if you wish to download the radar and in-situ data or contact me. We can coordinate transferring the exact datafiles used.
The GPM-DPR data are avail. here: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPM/DPR/GPM/2A/05">http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPM/DPR/GPM/2A/05</a>
published:
2017-09-08
Park, Jungsik; Le, Brian; Sklenar, Joseph; Chern, Gia-wei; Watts, Justin; Schiffer, Peter
(2017)
Transport and MFM data of brickwork artificial spin ice composed of permalloy are included, which are reproductions of the data in an article named "Magnetic response of brickwork artificial spin ice". Transport data represent magnetic response of connected brickwork artificial spin ice, and MFM data represent how both connected and disconnected brickwork artificial spin ice react to external magnetic fields. SEM images of typical samples are included, where individual nanowire leg (island) is approximately 660 nm long and 140 nm wide with a 40 nm thickness. For the transport, each sample was measured in a longitudinal and a transverse geometry. Red curves are the 2500 Oe to -2500 Oe sweeps and the blue curves are -2500 Oe to 2500 Oe sweeps. Transport measurements were taken by using a standard 4-wire technique. Each plot was saved in pdf format.
keywords:
Magnetotransport
published:
2025-12-15
Vector competence and survival data for Aedes albopictus mosquitoes exposed to Ross River virus
keywords:
Emerging viruses; vectorial capacity; vector competence; container-breeding mosquitoes; alphavirus; Culicidae
published:
2025-12-19
Wu, Genghong; Guan, Kaiyu; Jiang, Chongya; Kimm, Hyungsuk; Miao, Guofang; Bernacchi, Carl J.; Moore, Caitlin E.; Ainsworth, Elizabeth A.; Yang, Xi; Berry, Joseph A.; Frankenberg, Christian; Chen, Min
(2025)
Information to characterize the solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)-gross primary production (GPP) relationship in C4 cropping systems remains limited. The annual C4 crop corn and perennial C4 crop miscanthus differ in phenology, canopy structure and leaf physiology. Investigating the SIF-GPP relationships in these species could deepen our understanding of SIF-GPP relationships within C4 crops. Using in situ canopy SIF and GPP measurements for both species along with leaf-level measurements, we found considerable differences in the SIF-GPP relationships between corn and miscanthus, with a stronger SIF-GPP relationship and higher slope of SIF-GPP observed in corn compared to miscanthus. These differences were mainly caused by leaf physiology. For miscanthus, high non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) under high light, temperature and water vapor deficit (VPD) conditions caused a large decline of fluorescence yield (ΦF), which further led to a SIF midday depression and weakened the SIF-GPP relationship. The larger slope in corn than miscanthus was mainly due to its higher GPP in mid-summer, largely attributed to the higher leaf photosynthesis and less NPQ. Our results demonstrated variation of the SIF-GPP relationship within C4 crops and highlighted the importance of leaf physiology in determining canopy SIF behaviors and SIF-GPP relationships.
keywords:
Feedstock Production;Sustainability;Field Data
published:
2025-12-18
Marshalla, Dan; Fraterrigo, Jennifer
(2025)
This dataset includes data from a study conducted in southern Illinois, USA, which was published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. The study investigated the interactive effects of fire history and invasion by the non-native grass Microstegium vimineum on fire intensity and oak regeneration in central hardwood forests. The dataset includes data on environmental conditions, historical fire occurrence, experimental fire intensity and fuel load, seedling and juvenile oak characteristics, Microstegium cover, and plot descriptions.
keywords:
Fire-grass-tree interactions; Historical fire regime; Invasive grasses; Microstegium vimineum, Post-fire oak survival; Prescribed fire
published:
2025-12-18
Boob, Aashutosh; Zhang, Changyi; Pan, Yuwei; Zaidi, Airah; Whitaker, Rachel; Zhao, Huimin
(2025)
Sulfolobus islandicus, an emerging archaeal model organism, offers unique advantages for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology applications owing to its ability to thrive in extreme environments. Although several genetic tools have been established for this organism, the lack of well-characterized chromosomal integration sites has limited its potential as a cellular factory. Here, we systematically identified and characterized 13 artificial CRISPR RNAs targeting eight integration sites in S. islandicus using the CRISPR-COPIES pipeline and a multi-omics-informed computational workflow. We leveraged the endogenous CRISPR-Cas system to integrate the reporter gene lacS and validated heterologous expression through a β-galactosidase assay, revealing significant positional effects. As a proof of concept, we utilized these sites to genetically manipulate lipid ether composition by overexpressing glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) ring synthase B (GrsB). This study expands the genetic toolbox for S. islandicus and advances its potential as a robust platform for archaeal synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology.
keywords:
AI/ML; gene editing; genome engineering; metabolic engineering
published:
2025-12-14
Fraterrigo, Jennifer; Chen, Weile
(2025)
This dataset contains information about absorptive roots from 170 plots along a latitudinal and temperature gradient in northern Alaska, including tussock sedges and deciduous alder, birch, and willow shrubs. This dataset accompanies the paper "Impacts of Arctic Shrubs on Root Traits and Belowground Nutrient Cycles Across a Northern Alaskan Climate Gradient," which was published in Frontiers in Plant Sciences.
<b>*Note:</b> in the "patch coordinates" tab, the same coordinates/elevation ("Long", "Lat", and "Elev (m)") apply to all patches that share a number. For ex: "Patch" W1, B1, and G1 share the same "Long", "Lat", and "Elev (m)" values as "Patch" A1.
keywords:
absorptive root traits; shrub expansion; Arctic; Alaskan tundra
published:
2025-06-26
Zhang, Ruolin; Kontou, Eleftheria
(2025)
This dataset supports the analysis presented in the study on curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure planning in San Francisco and the published paper titled "Urban electric vehicle infrastructure: Strategic planning for curbside charging." It includes spatial data layers and tabular data used to evaluate location suitability under multiple criteria, such as demand, accessibility, and environmental benefits. This dataset can be used to replicate the multi-criteria decision-making framework, perform additional spatial analyses, or inform policy decisions related to EV infrastructure siting in urban environments. The paper's DOI is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104328.
keywords:
Electric Vehicles; Curbside Charging Stations; Multi-Criteria Decision-Making; Suitability Analysis; Urban Infrastructure
published:
2025-12-15
Xiao, Tianxia; Khan, Artem; Shen, Yihui; Chen, Li; Rabinowitz, Joshua
(2025)
Ethanol and lactate are typical waste products of glucose fermentation. In mammals, glucose is catabolized by glycolysis into circulating lactate, which is broadly used throughout the body as a carbohydrate fuel. Individual cells can both uptake and excrete lactate, uncoupling glycolysis from glucose oxidation. Here we show that similar uncoupling occurs in budding yeast batch cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Issatchenkia orientalis. Even in fermenting S. cerevisiae that is net releasing ethanol, media 13C-ethanol rapidly enters and is oxidized to acetaldehyde and acetyl-CoA. This is evident in exogenous ethanol being a major source of both cytosolic and mitochondrial acetyl units. 2H-tracing reveals that ethanol is also a major source of both NADH and NADPH high-energy electrons, and this role is augmented under oxidative stress conditions. Thus, uncoupling of glycolysis from the oxidation of glucose-derived carbon via rapidly reversible reactions is a conserved feature of eukaryotic metabolism.
keywords:
Conversion;Metabolomics
published:
2025-12-10
Raghavan, Arjun; Bae, Seokjin; Delegan, Nazar; Heremans, F. Joseph; Madhavan, Vidya
(2025)
Data for 'Atomic-scale imaging and charge state manipulation of NV centers by scanning tunneling microscopy' to be published in Nature Communications.
keywords:
STM; scanning tunneling microscopy; nitrogen-vacancy; NV centers
published:
2025-12-09
Hsu, Felicity Ting-Yu; Smith-Bolton, Rachel
(2025)
This page contains the data for the publication "Myc and Tor drive growth and cell competition in the regeneration blastema of Drosophila wing imaginal discs" published in Development, 2025.
keywords:
Drosophila; regeneration; Myc; Tor; blastema; translation; cell competition
published:
2025-12-01
Park, Minhyuk; Yi, Haotian; Warnow, Tandy; Chacko, George
(2025)
This dataset principally consists of four synthetic citation networks that were generated during the preparation of the manuscript Park M, Yi H, Warnow T, and Chacko G (2025). Modeling the Global Citation Network using the Scalable Agent-based Simulator for Citation Analysis with Recency-emphasized Sampling (SASCA-ReS). A preprint is available on Zenodo (below) and the manuscript has been submitted to the MetaRoR platform for review and feedback.
@misc{park_2025_17789558,
author = {Park, Minhyuk and
Yi, Haotian and
Warnow, Tandy and
Chacko, George},
title = {Modeling the Global Citation Network using the
Scalable Agent-based Simulator for Citation
Analysis with Recency-emphasized Sampling (SASCA-
ReS)
},
month = dec,
year = 2025,
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17789558},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17789558},
}
The networks are roughly 14, 76, 161, and 218 million nodes each. Both nodelists with attributes and edge lists are provided as gzipped parquet files along with the configuration file that was passed to the SASCA-ReS software, which can be accessed at: <a href="https://github.com/illinois-or-research-analytics/SASCA-ReS">https://github.com/illinois-or-research-analytics/SASCA-ReS</a>. A copy of the configuration file that was used to generate the network with SASCA-ReS is also provided. For example: abm14_config.ini; abm14_edgelist.parquet.gz; and abm14_nodelist.parquet.gz. The column headers in the edgelists and nodelists and the fields in the configuration file are explained in the Github repository for SASCA-ReS.
In addition, we provide sj_reccount, a table of real world citation frequencies that is an input to the SASCA-Res software. The first column (diff) of sj_reccount lists the difference between the publication year of a citing document and the publication year of a cited document. The second column (count) reports the frequency of such citations across the dataset of 77879427 observations, which is derived from the biomedical literature. Finally, we share data, composite_maverick_disruption.csv , from the mavericks (unconventional citing strategies) experiment reported in the Park et al. (2025) manuscript available at <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/17772113">https://zenodo.org/records/17772113</a>. The columns in the composite_maverick_disruption.csv file are:
node_id -> of agents in the various simulations
n_i, n_j, n_k -> terms used to compute disruption per "Wu, L., Wang, D. & Evans, J.A. Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology. Nature 566, 378–382 (2019). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0941-9">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0941-9"</a>
disruption -> the disruption metric of Wu, Wang, and Evans (2019)
type -> maverick type (maximizer, randomnik, or minimizer)
year -> virtual year in the simulation when the maverick was created
alpha -> the alpha parameter of the control agent
pa_weight -> the preferential attachment weight of the control agent phenotype
fit_peak_value -> the fitness value assigned to the control agent
in_degree -> the count of citations accumulated by the maverick or control agent at the end of the simulation
out_degree -> the count of references made by the maverick
tag -> a label for the experiment, e.g. od249_f1 indicates that the mavericks in this experiment made 249 citations and were assigned a fitness value of 1.
keywords:
synthetic networks; agent based models; SASCA-ReS; citation networks
published:
2025-12-09
Chase, Marissa H.; Fraterrigo, Jennifer M.; Charles, Brian; Harmon-Threatt, Alexandra
(2025)
The dataset includes bee community data from a study conducted down in southern Illinois across three forested public land sites. Bee diversity and abundance data, as well as environmental variables, are included for each plot. Each plot was visited a total of four times.
keywords:
wild bees; forest management; resource availability
published:
2023-09-20
Chase, Marissa H. ; Charles, Brian; Harmon-Threatt, Alexandra; Fraterrigo, Jennifer
(2023)
Dataset includes bee trait information and species abundance information for bees collected at 29 forests plots in southern Illinois, USA. Plots are located within three public land sites. Environmental data were also collected for each of the 29 plots.
keywords:
wild bees; forest management; functional traits
published:
2020-09-17
Refsland, Tyler; Knapp, Benjamin; Stephan, Kirsten; Fraterrigo, Jennifer
(2020)
Data are from a long-term fire manipulation experiment in the Missouri Ozarks, USA. Data include the raw, annual ring-width increment (rwl), basal area increment (BAI), population-level annual growth resistance (Drs) and resilience (Drl) to drought, intrinsic water use efficiency values (WUEi) and oxygen isotopic composition of individual radial growth rings (δ18O) from southern red oak (Quercus falcata) and post oak (Q. stellata) trees.
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TITLE:
Data for "Sixty-five years of fire manipulation reveals climate and fire interact to determine growth rates of Quercus spp."
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FILE OVERVIEW:
This dataset contains four (4) CSV files as described below:
Refsland_et_al_ECS20-0465_BAI.csv: annual basal area increment between 1948-2015 for trees across the fire manipulation experiment
Refsland_et_al_ECS20-0465_DroughtIndices.csv: population-level drought resistance and resilience of trees during each target drought period
Refsland_et_al_ECS20-0465_WUEi.csv: carbon isotope indicators of drought stress for trees across the fire manipulation experiment
Refsland_et_al_ECS20-0465_d18Or.csv: oxygen isotope indicators of drought stress for trees across the fire manipulation experiment
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VARIABLE EXPLANATION:
All the variables in those four files are explained as below:
treeID: unique character string that identifies subject tree
block: integer (1, 2) that identifies the study block
plot: integer (1-12) that identifies the plot nested within each study block
trt: character string (Annual, Control, Periodic) that identifies the fire treatment of a given plot
species: character string (Quercus falcata, Quercus stellata) that identifies species of subject tree
year: integer (1948-2015) that identifies the dated year of each tree ring
rwl_mm: numerical value representing the annual tree ring-width, in mm
bai_cm2: numerical value representing the annual basal area increment, in cm2
timeperiod: integer value (1953, 1964, 2007, 2012) representing the periods encompassing target dry and wet years
Drs_2yr: numerical value representing the drought resistance, defined as the population-level annual growth of trees during drought years relative to pre-drought years for a given time period
Drl_2yr: numerical value representing the drought resilience, defined as the population-level annual growth of trees following drought years relative to pre-drought years for a given time period
stand_ba_m2ha: numerical value representing the total basal area of a given plot, in m2 per ha
stand_density_stems_ha: numerical value representing the total stem density of a given plot, in stems per ha
pool: numerical value (1-40) identifying the set of tree ring samples pooled for analysis. Samples were pooled by block, plot, year and species
period: integer value (1953, 1964, 1980, 2007, 2012) representing the periods encompassing target dry and wet years
type: character string (Dry, Wet) indicating the water availability of a given year
d13C: numerical value representing the carbon isotopic composition of radial growth rings within a given sample pool, in per mil
WUEi: numerical value representing the annual intrinsic water use efficiency of radial growth rings within a given sample pool
d18O: numerical value representing the oxygen isotopic composition of radial growth rings within a given sample pool, in per mil
keywords:
climate change adaptation; drought; fire; nitrogen availability; oak-hickory; radial growth; resilience; resistance; stand density; temperate broadleaf forest; water stress
published:
2021-10-15
Perez, Sierra; Dalling, James; Fraterrigo, Jennifer
(2021)
Information on the location, dimensions, time of treefall or death, decay state, wood nutrient, wood pH and wood density data, and soil moisture, slope, distance from forest edge and soil nutrient data associated with the publication "Interspecific wood trait variation predicts decreased carbon residence time in changing forests" authored by Sierra Perez, Jennifer Fraterrigo, and James Dalling.
** <b>Note:</b> Blank cells indicate that no data were collected.
keywords:
wood decay; carbon residence time; coarse woody debris; decomposition, temperate forests
published:
2025-04-26
Alvarez, Jennifer; Fraterrigo, Jennifer; Dalling, James; Edgington, John
(2025)
Historical census data collected at Trelease Woods from 1986 to 2004 with information on tree species, diameter at breast height (DBH), and plot location.
keywords:
old-growth; temperate forest; species composition; forest dynamics; historical data
published:
2025-04-27
Alvarez, Jennifer; Fraterrigo, Jennifer; Dalling, James
(2025)
Soil data for ten soil cores collected at Trelease Woods in 2022. Soil samples were analyzed with an elemental analyzer via combustion to obtain total carbon (C) and nitrogen. A subset of these samples were analyzed using the Walkley-Black method to obtain organic C. A calibration curve relating organic C and total C was created using these data.
keywords:
old-growth; temperate forest; soil carbon; soil nitrogen; nutrient cycling
published:
2025-04-28
Alvarez, Jennifer; Fraterrigo, Jennifer; Dalling, James
(2025)
Dataset of the standing dead trees at Trelease Woods in 2022. Dataset contains volume, biomass, decay class, and GPS coordinates for each standing dead tree.
keywords:
old-growth; temperate forest; standing deadwood; census data
published:
2020-10-01
Fraterrigo, Jennifer; Rembelski, Mara
(2020)
We measured the effects of fire or drought treatment on plant, microbial and biogeochemical responses in temperate deciduous forests invaded by the annual grass Microstegium vimineum with a history of either frequent fire or fire exclusion.
Please note, on Documentation tab / Experimental or Sampling Design, “15 (XVI)” should be “16 (XVI)”.
keywords:
plant-soil interaction; grass-fire cycle; Microstegium; carbon and nitrogen cycling; microbial decomposers
published:
2025-12-08
Li, Shuai; Moller, Christopher; Mitchell, Noah G.; Martin, Duncan; Sacks, Erik; Saikia, Sampurna; Labonte, Nicholas R.; Baldwin, Brian S.; Morrison, Jesse; Ferguson, John; Leakey, Andrew; Ainsworth, Elizabeth
(2025)
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes multivariate correlations in leaf structural, physiological and chemical traits, originally based on diverse C3 species grown under natural ecosystems. However, the specific contribution of C4 species to the global LES is studied less widely. C4 species have a CO2 concentrating mechanism which drives high rates of photosynthesis and improves resource use efficiency, thus potentially pushing them towards the edge of the LES. Here, we measured foliage morphology, structure, photosynthesis, and nutrient content for hundreds of genotypes of the C4 grass Miscanthus × giganteus grown in two common gardens over two seasons. We show substantial trait variations across M. × giganteus genotypes and robust genotypic trait relationships. Compared to the global LES, M. × giganteus genotypes had higher photosynthetic rates, lower stomatal conductance, and less nitrogen content, indicating greater water and photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency in the C4 species. Additionally, tetraploid genotypes produced thicker leaves with greater leaf mass per area and lower leaf density than triploid genotypes. By expanding the LES relationships across C3 species to include C4 crops, these findings highlight that M. × giganteus occupies the boundary of the global LES and suggest the potential for ploidy to alter LES traits.
keywords:
Feedstock Production;Biomass Analytics;Field Data
published:
2025-12-08
Maitra, Shraddha; Viswanathan, Mothi Bharath; Park, Kiyoul; Kannan, Baskaran; Cano Alfanar, Sofia; McCoy, Scott M.; Cahoon, Edgar; Altpeter, Fredy; Leakey, Andrew; Singh, Vijay
(2025)
Plant oils are increasingly in demand as renewable feedstocks for biodiesel and biochemicals. Currently, oilseeds are the primary source of plant oils. Although the vegetative tissues of plants express lipid metabolism pathways, they do not hyper-accumulate lipids. Elevated synthesis, storage, and accumulation of lipids in vegetative tissues have been achieved by metabolic engineering of sugarcane to produce “oilcane.” This study evaluates the potential of oilcane as a renewable feedstock for the co-production of lipids and fermentable sugars. Oilcane was grown under favorable climatic and field conditions in Florida (FLOC) as well as during an abbreviated growing season, outside its typical growing region, in Illinois (ILOC). The potential lipid yield of 0.35 tons/ha was projected from the hyperaccumulation of fatty acids in the stored vegetative biomass of FLOC, which is approaching the lipid yield of soybean (0.44 tons/ha). Processing of the vegetative tissues of oilcane recovered 0.20 tons/ha, which represents the recovery of 55% of the total lipids from FLOC. Chemical-free hydrothermal bioprocessing of ILOC and FLOC bagasse and leaves at 180 °C for 10 min prevented the degeneration of in situ plant lipids. This allowed the recovery of lipids at the end of the bioprocess with a major fraction of lipids remaining in the biomass residues after pretreatment and saccharification. Improvements through refined biomass processing, crop management, and metabolic engineering are expected to boost lipid yields and make oilcane a prime feedstock for the production of biodiesel.
keywords:
Conversion;Feedstock Production;Feedstock Bioprocessing;Lipidomics;Metabolomics