Enhancing digestibility and ethanol yield of Populus wood via expression of an engineered monolignol 4-O-methyltransferase

Autor: Yuanheng Cai, Kewei Zhang, Hoon Kim, Guichuan Hou, Xuebin Zhang, Huijun Yang, Huan Feng, Lisa Miller, John Ralph, Chang-Jun Liu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11989
Popis: The efficiency of cellulosic biofuel production from woody biomass is limited by the presence of lignin that impedes efficient processing. Here the authors show that transgenic modification of aspen to depress lignin polymerization can increase ethanol yield without affecting tree growth.
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