Enhancing cellulose utilization for fuels and chemicals by genetic modification of plant cell wall architecture
Abstract
Cellulose from plant biomass can serve as a sustainable feedstock for fuels, chemicals and polymers that are currently produced from petroleum. In order to enhance economic feasibility, the efficiency of cell wall deconstruction needs to be enhanced. With the use of genetic and biotechnological approaches cell wall composition can be modified in such a way that interactions between the major cell wall polymers — cellulose, hemicellulosic polysaccharides and lignin — are altered. Some of the resulting plants are compromised in their growth and development, but this may be caused in part by the plant’s overcompensation for metabolic perturbances. In other cases novel structures have been introduced in the cell wall without negative effects. We report the first field studies with engineered bioenergy crops look promising, while detailed structural analyses of cellulose synthase offer new opportunities to modify cellulose itself.
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- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
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- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of International Affairs (IA); USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO); Southeastern SunGrant Center; USDOE Office of Electricity (OE), Advanced Grid Research & Development. Power Systems Engineering Research
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- 1772234
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- OSTI ID: 1360643
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- PI0000031; 2011-10006-30358; 2010-38502-21854
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Current Opinion in Biotechnology
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- Journal Volume: 32; Journal ID: ISSN 0958-1669
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS
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Vermerris, Wilfred, and Abril, Alejandra. Enhancing cellulose utilization for fuels and chemicals by genetic modification of plant cell wall architecture. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.024.
Vermerris, Wilfred, & Abril, Alejandra. Enhancing cellulose utilization for fuels and chemicals by genetic modification of plant cell wall architecture. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.024
Vermerris, Wilfred, and Abril, Alejandra. Tue .
"Enhancing cellulose utilization for fuels and chemicals by genetic modification of plant cell wall architecture". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.024. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1772234.
@article{osti_1772234,
title = {Enhancing cellulose utilization for fuels and chemicals by genetic modification of plant cell wall architecture},
author = {Vermerris, Wilfred and Abril, Alejandra},
abstractNote = {Cellulose from plant biomass can serve as a sustainable feedstock for fuels, chemicals and polymers that are currently produced from petroleum. In order to enhance economic feasibility, the efficiency of cell wall deconstruction needs to be enhanced. With the use of genetic and biotechnological approaches cell wall composition can be modified in such a way that interactions between the major cell wall polymers — cellulose, hemicellulosic polysaccharides and lignin — are altered. Some of the resulting plants are compromised in their growth and development, but this may be caused in part by the plant’s overcompensation for metabolic perturbances. In other cases novel structures have been introduced in the cell wall without negative effects. We report the first field studies with engineered bioenergy crops look promising, while detailed structural analyses of cellulose synthase offer new opportunities to modify cellulose itself.},
doi = {10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.024},
journal = {Current Opinion in Biotechnology},
number = ,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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