Paving the way for lignin valorisation: recent advances in bioengineering, biorefining and catalysis

R Rinaldi, R Jastrzebski, MT Clough… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lignin is an abundant biopolymer with a high carbon content and high aromaticity. Despite
its potential as a raw material for the fuel and chemical industries, lignin remains the most …

Lignin biosynthesis and its integration into metabolism

R Vanholme, B De Meester, J Ralph… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•To date, metabolites from more than 10 different metabolic classes have been
identified as lignin building blocks, totaling 35 monomers.•Despite this flexibility, limitations …

Lignin biosynthesis and structure

R Vanholme, B Demedts, K Morreel, J Ralph… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Lignin is the generic term for a large group of aromatic polymers resulting from the oxidative
combinatorial coupling of 4-hydroxyphenylpropanoids (Boerjan et al., 2003; Ralph et al …

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 …

Whole plant cell wall characterization using solution-state 2D NMR

SD Mansfield, H Kim, F Lu, J Ralph - Nature protocols, 2012 - nature.com
Recent advances in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology have made it possible
to rapidly screen plant material and discern whole cell wall information without the need to …

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 …

Lignin engineering

R Vanholme, K Morreel, J Ralph, W Boerjan - Current opinion in plant …, 2008 - Elsevier
Lignins are aromatic polymers that are present mainly in secondarily thickened plant cell
walls. Several decades of research have elucidated the main biosynthetic routes toward the …

Characterization of Lignin Structures and Lignin–Carbohydrate Complex (LCC) Linkages by Quantitative 13C and 2D HSQC NMR Spectroscopy

TQ Yuan, SN Sun, F Xu, RC Sun - Journal of agricultural and food …, 2011 - ACS Publications
To characterize the lignin structures and lignin–carbohydrate complex (LCC) linkages,
milled wood lignin (MWL) and mild acidolysis lignin (MAL) with a high content of associated …

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 …