Improving plant cell walls for use as a renewable industrial feedstock

Partners

 DLF-TRIFOLIUM (P16)

Klaus Nielsen

DLF-Trifolium is the world leading grass and clover seed company with a century-long history of traditional breeding, which has been substantially complemented with biotech research over the last two decades. As part of its biotech activities DLF-Trifolium has developed routine transformation and regeneration protocols not only for commercially important temperate grass species, including perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, red fescue and Kentucky bluegrass, but also for the grass model plant Brachypodium distachyon. DLF-Trifolium will contribute with this experience to test several putative trait genes in transgenic B. distachyon and other temperate grasses.

Contributors
Klaus K. Nielsen, Director of Research and Development.
Thomas Didion
Caixia Gao
Ingo Lenk

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Contact: Klaus K. Nielsen, Director of Research and Development.

Grass transformation at DLF-Trifolium R&D Department, DLF-Trifolium, Denmark Flowering control - Salt tolerance - Improved nitrogen utilisation - Drought tolerance - Improved nutritional value ( high sugar & digestibility)