A Century-Old Mystery Unveiled: Sekizaisou is a Natural Lignin Mutant

Affiliations

• ¹ Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan.
• ² Tsukuba Technical Support Center, Department of Planning and Coordination, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan.
• ³ Division of Biotechnology, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan.
• ⁴ Genebank, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 and US Department of Energy's Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Wisconsin Energy Institute, Madison, Wisconsin 53726.
• ⁶ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium and Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium, Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium, and VIB Metabolomics Core, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁸ Forest Bio-Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, Ibaraki 319-1301, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Forest Resource Chemistry, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan.
• ¹¹ Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan and Institute of Global Innovation Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan [email protected].