Negative emissions technologies and reliable sequestration: a research agenda

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth," negative emissions
technologies"(NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play …

Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world

M Garg, N Sharma, S Sharma, P Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of
delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other …

Lignin valorization: improving lignin processing in the biorefinery

AJ Ragauskas, GT Beckham, MJ Biddy, R Chandra… - science, 2014 - science.org
Background Lignin, nature's dominant aromatic polymer, is found in most terrestrial plants in
the approximate range of 15 to 40% dry weight and provides structural integrity …

Lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol, a comprehensive review with a focus on pretreatment

SH Mood, AH Golfeshan, M Tabatabaei… - … and sustainable energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pretreatment technologies are aimed to increase enzyme accessibility to biomass and yields
of fermentable sugars. In general, pretreatment methods fall into four different categories …

Lignin–enzyme interactions in the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass

AC Dos Santos, E **menes, Y Kim, MR Ladisch - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Lignin is central to overcoming recalcitrance in the enzyme hydrolysis of lignocellulose.
While the term implies a physical barrier in the cell wall structure, there are also important …

Bioactive phenolic compounds, metabolism and properties: A review on valuable chemical compounds in Scots pine and Norway spruce

S Metsämuuronen, H Sirén - Phytochemistry Reviews, 2019 - Springer
Phenolics and extracted phenolic compounds of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Norway
spruce (Picea abies) show antibacterial activity against several bacteria. The majority of …

Exploring bacterial lignin degradation

ME Brown, MCY Chang - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Exploring diversity in microbial lignin degradation.•Elucidating lignin metabolism
in bacteria.•Discovery of new microbes and microbial consortia that degrade lignin.Plant …

Application of quantitative 31P NMR in biomass lignin and biofuel precursors characterization

Y Pu, S Cao, AJ Ragauskas - Energy & Environmental Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The last decade has seen tremendous growth and interest in renewable energy and fuels
aimed primarily at addressing issues of climate change, energy security, and rising energy …

The genetics of lignin biosynthesis: connecting genotype to phenotype

ND Bonawitz, C Chapple - Annual review of genetics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The processes underlying lignification, which for many years have been the near-exclusive
purview of chemists and biochemists, have more recently been approached using both …

SG2-type R2R3-MYB transcription factor MYB15 controls defense-induced lignification and basal immunity in Arabidopsis

WR Chezem, A Memon, FS Li, JK Weng… - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Lignification of cell wall appositions is a conserved basal defense mechanism in the plant
innate immune response. However, the genetic pathway controlling defense-induced …