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Improving plant cell walls
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Improving plant cell walls
for use as a renewable industrial feedstock |
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College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Claire Halpin
We are involved in Workpackages 2 and 6 and the PI, Claire Halpin, will coordinate WP2 research into understanding and manipulating lignin biosynthesis. The work in Dundee will largely involve a study of lignification genes in Brachypodium using bioinformatics and reverse genetics approaches including the production and characterization of transgenic Brachypodium. The aim is to identify the best target genes for manipulation to improve saccharification yield in grasses, and to try to identify genes involved in grass-specific aspects of lignification (H-lignin and ferulate deposition). In WP6, our involvement includes the production of stacking constructs to simultaneously modify multiple target genes, identified by WPs 2-5, for biomass optimization.
Contributors:
Professor Claire Halpin, PI
Postdoctoral research assistant to be appointed, responsible for Brachypodium work in WP2 and stacking expression constructs in WP6
Web: http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/claire_halpin/research/
We are part of the Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee: http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/ps
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