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Title: Compositions and methods relating to transgenic plants and cellulosic ethanol production

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1183450
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Transgenic lignocellulosic plants are provided according to embodiments of the present invention, the transgenic plants transformed with an expression cassette encoding a protein operably linked to a signal peptide which targets the protein to a cell wall of the transgenic plant, where at least 5% of the total amino acid residues of the protein are tyrosine, lysine, serine, threonine or cysteine. Methods of increasing lignin-protein bonds in a lignocellulosic plant are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include expressing a recombinant nucleic acid in a lignocellulosic plant, the recombinant nucleic acid encoding a protein operably linked to a signal peptide which targets the protein to the cell wall of a plant, where at least 5% of the total amino acid residues of the protein are tyrosine, lysine, serine, threonine or cysteine.

Research Organization:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER15891
Assignee:
The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, PA)
Patent Number(s):
9,045,764
Application Number:
13/435,761
OSTI ID:
1183450
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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