Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination

KS Salem, NK Kasera, MA Rahman… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The degree of crystallinity in cellulose significantly affects the physical, mechanical, and
chemical properties of cellulosic materials, their processing, and their final application …

Secondary cell wall biosynthesis

R Zhong, D Cui, ZH Ye - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 1703 I. Introduction 1703 II. Cellulose biosynthesis 1705 III. Xylan
biosynthesis 1709 IV. Glucomannan biosynthesis 1713 V. Lignin biosynthesis 1714 VI …

Valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass to value-added products: Paving the pathway towards low-carbon footprint

G Velvizhi, C Goswami, NP Shetti, E Ahmad, KK Pant… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofuel is the presently needed potential energy reservoir as an alternative to wearying fossil
fuel-based technology. Second generation lignocellulose is considered to be the most …

Secondary cell walls: biosynthesis, patterned deposition and transcriptional regulation

R Zhong, ZH Ye - Plant and cell physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Secondary walls are mainly composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses (xylan and
glucomannan) and lignin, and are deposited in some specialized cells, such as tracheary …

Probing cellulose structures with vibrational spectroscopy

M Makarem, CM Lee, K Kafle, S Huang, I Chae… - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
This paper reviews principles, data interpretations, and applications of vibrational
spectroscopic methods used for analysis of cellulose in the isolated state and in plant cell …

Genetic modification of plant cell walls to enhance biomass yield and biofuel production in bioenergy crops

Y Wang, C Fan, H Hu, Y Li, D Sun, Y Wang… - Biotechnology Advances, 2016 - Elsevier
Plant cell walls represent an enormous biomass resource for the generation of biofuels and
chemicals. As lignocellulose property principally determines biomass recalcitrance, the …

Effects of PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE (PAL) knockdown on cell wall composition, biomass digestibility, and biotic and abiotic stress responses in …

CL Cass, A Peraldi, PF Dowd, Y Mottiar… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The phenylpropanoid pathway in plants synthesizes a variety of structural and defence
compounds, and is an important target in efforts to reduce cell wall lignin for improved …

Salicylic acid‐dependent immunity contributes to resistance against Rhizoctonia solani, a necrotrophic fungal agent of sheath blight, in rice and Brachypodium …

Y Kouzai, M Kimura, M Watanabe, K Kusunoki… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rhizoctonia solani is a soil‐borne fungus causing sheath blight. In consistent with its
necrotrophic life style, no rice cultivars fully resistant to R. solani are known, and …

Grass secondary cell walls, Brachypodium distachyon as a model for discovery

JH Coomey, R Sibout, SP Hazen - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A key aspect of plant growth is the synthesis and deposition of cell walls. In specific tissues
and cell types including xylem and fibre, a thick secondary wall comprised of cellulose …

Analysis of potential strategies for cadmium stress tolerance revealed by transcriptome analysis of upland cotton

H Chen, Y Li, X Ma, L Guo, Y He, Z Ren, Z Kuang… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
In recent years, heavy metal pollution has become a more serious global problem, and all
countries are actively engaged in finding methods to remediate heavy metal-contaminated …