Designing Cell Walls for Improved Bioenergy Production Akula Nookaraju, Shashank K. Pandey, Hyeun-Jong Bae, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi  Molecular Plant  Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 8-10 (January 2013) DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss111 Copyright © 2013 The Authors. All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Lignin Pathway Genes Manipulated in Different Plant Species, where They Showed Improved Saccharification Efficiency. Bars represent saccharification efficiencies expressed as percent of wild-type (WT) and the saccharification efficiency in WT stems was set at 100% for easy comparison. The values on bars indicate the percent increase in saccharification efficiency of transgenic stems over WT stems. NS, no significant increase; * indicates tissues were also tested for bioethanol production. Note that the scales for graphs are different for various genes. The list of lignin genes manipulated are: C4H—tobacco (Cook et al., 2012), alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007); 4CL—switchgrass (Xu et al., 2011), hybrid poplar (Voelker et al., 2010); HCT—alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007); C3H—alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007), hybrid poplar (Mansfield et al., 2012); CCoAOMT—alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007); CCR—tobacco (Cook et al., 2012), alfalfa (Jackson et al., 2008); F5H—poplar (Mansfield et al., 2012), alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007); COMT—alfalfa (Chen and Dixon, 2007), alfalfa (Dien et al., 2011), switchgrass (Fu et al., 2011b), Sugarcane (Jung et al., 2012); CAD—maize (Fornalé et al., 2012), alfalfa (Jackson et al., 2008), switchgrass (Fu et al., 2011a); PER—tobacco (Kavousi et al., 2010; Cook et al., 2012); LAC—Arabidopsis mutants (Berthet et al., 2011). These references are available online as supplementary data. Molecular Plant 2013 6, 8-10DOI: (10.1093/mp/sss111) Copyright © 2013 The Authors. All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions