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Paul J. Weimer
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 139
Citations - 15400
Paul J. Weimer is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fermentation & Cellulose. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 138 publications receiving 14022 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul J. Weimer include DuPont & Agricultural Research Service.
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Microbial cellulose utilization: fundamentals and biotechnology.
TL;DR: A concluding discussion identifies unresolved issues pertaining to microbial cellulose utilization, suggests approaches by which such issues might be resolved, and contrasts a microbially oriented cellulose hydrolysis paradigm to the more conventional enzymatically oriented paradigm in both fundamental and applied contexts.
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Dominance of Prevotella and low abundance of classical ruminal bacterial species in the bovine rumen revealed by relative quantification real-time PCR.
TL;DR: The data suggest that the aggregate abundance of the most intensively studied ruminal bacterial species is relatively low and that a large fraction of the uncultured population represents a single bacterial genus.
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Biomass Yield and Biofuel Quality of Switchgrass Harvested in Fall or Spring
TL;DR: In this article, a field study compared fall and spring harvest measuring biomass yield, element concentration, carbohydrate characterization, and total synthetic gas production as indicators of biofuel quality for direct combustion, ethanol production, and gasification systems for generation of energy.
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Fermentation of cellulose and cellobiose by Clostridium thermocellum in the absence of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.
Paul J. Weimer,J. G. Zeikus +1 more
TL;DR: Fermentation of cellobiose was more rapid than that of cellulose, and agents of fermentation stoppage were found to be low pH and high concentrations of ethanol in the monoculture and low pH in the coculture.
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Redundancy, resilience, and host specificity of the ruminal microbiota: implications for engineering improved ruminal fermentations.
Paul J. Weimer,Paul J. Weimer +1 more
TL;DR: The ruminal microbial community is remarkably diverse, containing 100s of different bacterial and archaeal species, plus many species of fungi and protozoa, including a “core microbiome” dominated by phyla Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, but also containing many other taxa.