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Lignin engineering in forest trees

Alexandra Alvarenga Chanoca (UGent) , Lisanne de Vries and Wout Boerjan (UGent)
(2019) FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 10.
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Wood is a renewable resource that is mainly composed of lignin and cell wall polysaccharides. The polysaccharide fraction is valuable as it can be converted into pulp and paper, or into fermentable sugars. On the other hand, the lignin fraction is increasingly being considered a valuable source of aromatic building blocks for the chemical industry. The presence of lignin in wood is one of the major recalcitrance factors in woody biomass processing, necessitating the need for harsh chemical treatments to degrade and extract it prior to the valorization of the cell wall polysaccharides, cellulose and hemicellulose. Over the past years, large research efforts have been devoted to engineering lignin amount and composition to reduce biomass recalcitrance toward chemical processing. We review the efforts made in forest trees, and compare results from greenhouse and field trials. Furthermore, we address the value and potential of CRISPR-based gene editing in lignin engineering and its integration in tree breeding programs.
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lignin, forest trees, genetic engineering, CRISPR, field trial, CINNAMYL ALCOHOL-DEHYDROGENASE, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, A O-METHYLTRANSFERASE, MUTANT PINE DEFICIENT, DOWN-REGULATION, TRANSGENIC POPLARS, HYBRID POPLAR, LIGNOCELLULOSE FRACTIONATION, PHENYLPROPANOID METABOLISM, BIOMASS RECALCITRANCE

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Alvarenga Chanoca, Alexandra, et al. “Lignin Engineering in Forest Trees.” FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, vol. 10, 2019, doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00912.
APA
Alvarenga Chanoca, A., de Vries, L., & Boerjan, W. (2019). Lignin engineering in forest trees. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00912
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Alvarenga Chanoca, Alexandra, Lisanne de Vries, and Wout Boerjan. 2019. “Lignin Engineering in Forest Trees.” FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00912.
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Alvarenga Chanoca, Alexandra, Lisanne de Vries, and Wout Boerjan. 2019. “Lignin Engineering in Forest Trees.” FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 10. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00912.
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Alvarenga Chanoca A, de Vries L, Boerjan W. Lignin engineering in forest trees. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 2019;10.
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A. Alvarenga Chanoca, L. de Vries, and W. Boerjan, “Lignin engineering in forest trees,” FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, vol. 10, 2019.
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