Improving plant cell walls for use as a renewable industrial feedstock

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SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Björn Sundberg

Biosynthesis of cellulose. Identification and functional characterisation of novel genes putatively involved in cellulose biosynthesis using gene mining from tension wood microarrays, mutants in poplar and Arabidopsis and spectroscopic and mass-spectrometric analysis of secondary xylem.
Providing transgenic poplar material for desaccarification analysis.

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Poplars in the greenhouse