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Selective lignin arylation for biomass fractionation and benign bisphenols
Lignocellulose is mainly composed of hydrophobic lignin and hydrophilic polysaccharide polymers, contributing to an indispensable carbon resource for green biorefineries1,2. When chemically treated, lignin is com...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: The flying spider-monkey tree fern genome provides insights into fern evolution and arborescence
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Open AccessLignin deconstruction by anaerobic fungi
Lignocellulose forms plant cell walls, and its three constituent polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, represent the largest renewable organic carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere. Insights into b...
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Open AccessThe flying spider-monkey tree fern genome provides insights into fern evolution and arborescence
To date, little is known about the evolution of fern genomes, with only two small genomes published from the heterosporous Salviniales. Here we assembled the genome of Alsophila spinulosa, known as the flying spi...
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Open AccessHigh-throughput platform for yeast morphological profiling predicts the targets of bioactive compounds
Morphological profiling is an omics-based approach for predicting intracellular targets of chemical compounds in which the dose-dependent morphological changes induced by the compound are systematically compar...
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Open AccessImproved analysis of arabinoxylan-bound hydroxycinnamate conjugates in grass cell walls
Arabinoxylan in grass cell walls is acylated to varying extents by ferulate and p-coumarate at the 5-hydroxy position of arabinosyl residues branching off the xylan backbone. Some of these hydroxycinnamate units ...
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Open AccessTailoring poplar lignin without yield penalty by combining a null and haploinsufficient CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE2 allele
Lignin causes lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance to enzymatic hydrolysis. Engineered low-lignin plants have reduced recalcitrance but often exhibit yield penalties, offsetting their gains in fermentable sug...
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COSY catalyses trans–cis isomerization and lactonization in the biosynthesis of coumarins
Coumarins, also known as 1,2-benzopyrones, comprise a large class of secondary metabolites that are ubiquitously found throughout the plant kingdom. In many plant species, coumarins are particularly important ...
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Open AccessOsCAldOMT1 is a bifunctional O-methyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of tricin-lignins in rice cell walls
Lignin is a phenylpropanoid polymer produced in the secondary cell walls of vascular plants. Although most eudicot and gymnosperm species generate lignins solely via polymerization of p-hydroxycinnamyl alcohols (...
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Correction to: Towards lignin-protein crosslinking: amino acid adducts of a lignin model quinone methide
The manuscript initially failed to cite the work of Dr. Cong et al., which was the basis for this effort. We apologize for this error.
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Introducing curcumin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing
Lignin is the main cause of lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance to industrial enzymatic hydrolysis. By partially replacing the traditional lignin monomers by alternative ones, lignin extractability can be en...
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Open AccessImproving wood properties for wood utilization through multi-omics integration in lignin biosynthesis
A multi-omics quantitative integrative analysis of lignin biosynthesis can advance the strategic engineering of wood for timber, pulp, and biofuels. Lignin is polymerized from three monomers (monolignols) prod...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Tissue and cell-specific transcriptomes in cotton reveal the subtleties of gene regulation underlying the diversity of plant secondary cell walls
Upon publication of the original article [1], the authors had flagged that Fig. 1 had been published twice, as both Fig. 1 and Additional file 3.
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Open AccessTissue and cell-specific transcriptomes in cotton reveal the subtleties of gene regulation underlying the diversity of plant secondary cell walls
Knowledge of plant secondary cell wall (SCW) regulation and deposition is mainly based on the Arabidopsis model of a ‘typical’ lignocellulosic SCW. However, SCWs in other plants can vary from this. The SCW of ...
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Open AccessSuppression of CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE increases the level of monolignol ferulates incorporated into maize lignins
The cell wall polymer lignin provides structural support and rigidity to plant cell walls, and therefore to the plant body. However, the recalcitrance associated with lignin impedes the extraction of polysacch...
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Open AccessImpact of lignin polymer backbone esters on ionic liquid pretreatment of poplar
Biomass pretreatment remains an essential step in lignocellulosic biofuel production, largely to facilitate the efficient removal of lignin and increase enzyme accessibility to the polysaccharides. In recent y...
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Open AccessNatural acetylation impacts carbohydrate recovery during deconstruction of Populus trichocarpa wood
Significant variation in the inherent degree of acetylation naturally exists in the xylem cell walls of Populus trichocarpa. During pretreatment, endogenous acetate hydrolyzes to acetic acid that can subsequently...
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Open AccessEnhanced delignification of steam-pretreated poplar by a bacterial laccase
The recalcitrance of woody biomass, particularly its lignin component, hinders its sustainable transformation to fuels and biomaterials. Although the recent discovery of several bacterial ligninases promises t...
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Open AccessRNAi downregulation of three key lignin genes in sugarcane improves glucose release without reduction in sugar production
Sugarcane is a subtropical crop that produces large amounts of biomass annually. It is a key agricultural crop in many countries for the production of sugar and other products. Residual bagasse following sucro...
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Open AccessSugarcane transgenics expressing MYB transcription factors show improved glucose release
Sugarcane, a tropical C4 perennial crop, is capable of producing 30–100 tons or more of biomass per hectare annually. The lignocellulosic residue remaining after sugar extraction is currently underutilized and...
