Lignin modification improves fermentable sugar yields for biofuel production

By Fang Chen, Richard A. Dixon. Nature Biotechnology, 2007

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Recent advances in pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes and production of value added products (2009, background): “Some transgenic plant residues have been reported to yield nearly twice as much sugar from cell walls compared to wild-types (Chen and Dixon, 2007).”
Potential of Plants from the Genus Agave as Bioenergy Crops (2012, background): “manipulating cell wall polymers [6, 16, 22], or enhancing specific valuable by-product levels.”
Allelic Association, Chemical Characterization and Saccharification Properties of brown midrib Mutants of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) (2008, methodology): “Thermochemical pretreatment of the stover was accomplished by autoclaving 0.3 g stover at a 10% solids loading in 1.3% (w/w) sulfuric acid for 40 min at 121°C, based on Chen and Dixon [7].”
Biopulping of lignocellulosic material using different fungal species: a review (2010, background): “Some specialize fungi could produce ligninases that delignifies the cell wall and provide greater access to more digestible plant cellulosic material (Chen and Dixon 2007).”
Genetic improvement of C4 grasses as cellulosic biofuel feedstocks (2009, background): “In fact, lignin content could be reduced to a level where untreated transgenic alfalfa yielded higher saccharification efficiency than pretreated control plants (Chen and Dixon 2007).”