Published in Euphytica
Lodging (stem bending) is a serious problem causing severe yield reduction, poor grain filling, lower harvest index and deterioration in grain quality of chickpea in environments characterized by favorable temperatures and soil moisture conditions. Breeding for lodging resistance is also required to improving adaptation to better agronomy for achie...
Published in Biotechnology for Biofuels
Lignin, the most abundant renewable aromatic compound in nature, is an excellent feedstock for value-added bioproducts manufacturing; while the intrinsic heterogeneity and recalcitrance of which hindered the efficient lignin biorefinery and utilization. Compared with chemical processing, bioprocessing with microbial and enzymatic catalysis is a cle...
Published in Biotechnology for Biofuels
BackgroundConventional aqueous dilute sulfuric acid (DSA) pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass facilitates hemicellulose solubilization and can improve subsequent enzymatic digestibility of cellulose to fermentable glucose. However, much of the lignin after DSA pretreatment either remains intact within the cell wall or readily redeposits back on...
Published in Biotechnology for Biofuels
BackgroundMultiple analytical methods have been developed to determine the ratios of aromatic lignin units, particularly the syringyl/guaiacyl (S/G) ratio, of lignin biopolymers in plant cell walls. Chemical degradation methods such as thioacidolysis produce aromatic lignin units that are released from certain linkages and may induce chemical chang...
Published in BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundCinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) is an important enzyme functions at the last step in lignin monomer synthesis pathway. Our previous work found that drought induced the expressions of CmCAD genes and promoted lignin biosynthesis in melon stems.ResultsHere we studied the effects of abscisic acid (ABA), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and jasm...
Published in Planta
Main conclusionTranscriptomic and exome capture analysis reveal an adaptive cline for shade tolerance in Norway spruce. Genes involved in the lignin pathway and immunity seem to play a potential role in contributing towards local adaptation to light.AbstractThe study of natural variation is an efficient method to elucidate how plants adapt to local...
Published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Multiscale computational modeling reveal the role of sulfuric acid and ethylene glycol in the selective breakdown of lignin.
Published in Heliyon
Laccase, substrate specificity, ABTS, Trametes polyzona WRF03, lignin
Published in Applied Biological Chemistry
Convertible cellulose and lignin were simultaneously isolated from wheat straw using a two-stage process via simply varying temperature and H2SO4 concentration. At the first-stage, cellulose was obtained by pretreating wheat straw at lower temperature and acid concentration using an organosolv process. The purity, yield and recovery rate of cellulo...
Published in BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundLignin deposited in plant cell walls negatively affects biomass conversion into advanced bioproducts. There is therefore a strong interest in developing bioenergy crops with reduced lignin content or altered lignin structures. Another desired trait for bioenergy crops is the ability to accumulate novel bioproducts, which would enhance the...
