Plant biology and pathology / Biologie et pathologie végétales Genetic and molecular basis of grass cell wall biosynthesis and degradability. II. Lessons from brown-midrib mutants ✩ ,✩✩

By Y. Barrière, J. Ralph, V. Méchin, S. Guillaumie, J. Grabber, O. Argillier, B. Chabbert, C. Lapierre. 2004

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Genetic modification of lignin biosynthesis for improved biofuel production (2009, background): “Functions of bm2 and bm4 mutants are still unknown, although both mutants showed reduced lignin content of 15–25%, especially G lignin unit (Marita et al. 2003, Barriere et al. 2004).”
Bio-Fuel Crops Research for Energy Security and Rural Development in Developing Countries (2008, background): “Brown midrib mutants of maize [15, 3, 13, 28] and sorghum [18] have significantly lower levels of lignin content (by 51% in”
Transgenics are imperative for biofuel crops (2008, background): “They have been used to breed forage (silage) maize and sorghum, invariably with somewhat lower yields, which can be economically compensated for by the greater digestibility [100,101].”
Genetic improvement of C4 grasses as cellulosic biofuel feedstocks (2009, background): “…extensively studied for digestibility purposes for animal feedstock like corn, other grasses, and alfalfa (Jung and Vogel 1986; Baucher et al. 1999; Barrière et al. 2004; Ralph et al. 2004; Reddy et al. 2005) and for improving pulping qualities in wood (Hu et al. 1999; Pilate et al. 2002; Baucher…”