| Selected Publications (2003 – present):
Lamb, J.F.S., C. C. Sheaffer, D.A. Samac. 2003. Population density and harvest maturity effects on leaf and stem yield in alfalfa. Agron. J. 95:635-641.
Jung, H.J.G., and J.F.S. Lamb. 2003. Identification of lucerne stem cell wall traits related to in vitro neutral detergent fibre digestibility. Animal Feed Sci Tech 110:17-29.
Jung, H.J.G., and J.F.S. Lamb. 2004. Prediction of cell wall polysaccharide and lignin concentrations of alfalfa stems from detergent fiber analysis. Biomass and Bioenergy. 27:365-373.
Schwab, P.M., J. F. S. Lamb, C. C. Sheaffer, and D. K. Barnes. 2005. Germplasm variability and environmental effects on stem cellulose and lignin concentration in alfalfa. J. Agronomy & Crop Science 191:386-392.
Lamb, JoAnn F. S., Michael P. Russelle, and Michael A. Schmitt. 2005. Alfalfa and reed canarygrass response to mid-summer manure application. Crop Sci. 45:2293-2300.
Lamb, JoAnn F.S., Craig C. Sheaffer, Landon H. Rhodes, R. Marc Sulc, and Daniel J. Undersander, E. Charles Brummer. 2006. Five decades of alfalfa cultivar improvement: Impact on forage yield, persistence, and nutritive value. Crop Sci. 46: 902-909.
Samac, D.A., H.J.G. Jung, and J.F.S. Lamb. 2006. Development of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) as a feedstock for production of ethanol and other bioproducts. . In Minteer, S., editor. Alcoholic Fuels. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 79-98.
Jung, H.G., and J.F.S. Lamb. 2006. Stem morphological and cell wall traits associated with divergent in vitro fiber digestibility and alfalfa clones. Crop Sci. 46:2054-2061.
Dien, B.S., H.G. Jung, K.P. Vogel, M.D. Casler, J.F. Lamb, L.B. Iten, R. Mitchell, and G. Sarath. 2006. Chemical composition and response to dilute-acid pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of alfalfa, reed canarygrass and switchgrass. Biomass and Bioenergy. 30:880-891.
Vogel, K.P. and J. F. S. Lamb. 2007. Chapter 28. Forage Breeding In R.F. Barnes, C.J. Nelsom, K.J. Moore and M. Collins (ed.) Forages, Vol II, 6th Ed. The Science of Grassland Agriculture. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA. p. 427-438.
Russelle, Michael P., JoAnn F.S. Lamb, Nancy B. Turyk, Byron H. Shaw, and Bill Pearson. 2007. Managing nitrogen contaminated soils: Benefits of N2-fixing alfalfa. Agron. J. 99:732-746.
Lamb, J.F. S., H.-J.G. Jung, C.C. Sheaffer, and D.A. Samac. 2007. Alfalfa leaf protein and stem carbohydrate and lignin content under hay and biomass management systems. Crop Sci. 47:1407-1415.
Lamb J.F.S., M.P Russelle D.M. Fenton. 2008. Field based selection method creates alfalfa populations that differ in nitrate-N uptake. Crop Sci. 48:450-457.
Boateng, A.A., C. A. Mullen, N.M. Goldberg, K.B. Hickes, H.G. Jung, and J. F.S. Lamb. 2008. Production of Bio-oil from alfalfa stems by fluidized-bed fast pyrolysis. Ind.Eng.Chem. Res. 47: 4115-4122. 2008
Boateng, A.A., P.J. Weimer, H.G. Jung, and J.F.S. Lamb. 2008. Response to thermochemical and biochemical conversion processes to lignin concentration in alfalfa stems. Energy and Fuels, in press. | 
