Genome editing of wood for sustainable pulping

Dyoni M Oliveira; Igor Cesarino

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2023.10.007

Genome editing of wood for sustainable pulping

Trends Plant Sci. 2024 Feb;29(2):111-113. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.10.007. Epub 2023 Oct 12.

Authors

Dyoni M Oliveira¹, Igor Cesarino²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil; Synthetic and Systems Biology Center, InovaUSP, Avenida Professor Lucio Martins Rodrigues 370, 05508-020 São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 37838517
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.10.007

Abstract

Wood is an abundant and renewable feedstock for pulping and biorefining, but the aromatic polymer lignin greatly limits its efficient use. Sulis et al. recently reported a multiplex CRISPR editing strategy targeting multiple lignin biosynthetic genes to achieve combined lignin modifications, improve wood properties, and make pulping more sustainable.

Keywords: bioeconomy; lignin; multiplex CRISPR editing; pulping; wood.

MeSH terms

Gene Editing*
Lignin* / genetics
Wood / genetics

Substances

Lignin

Abstract

MeSH terms

Substances

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