Metabolic and transcriptomic study of pennycress natural variation identifies targets for oil improvement (open access)

Metabolic and transcriptomic study of pennycress natural variation identifies targets for oil improvement

Article describes how, although pennycress, a winter annual, could be grown as a dedicated bioenergy crop, an increase in its seed oil content is required to improve its economic competitiveness. In this work, the authors combined biomass composition with metabolomic and transcriptomic studies of developing embryos from 22 pennycress natural variants to identify targets for oil improvement.
Date: June 19, 2023
Creator: Arias, Cintia Lucía; García Navarrete, Leidy Tatiana; Mukundi, Eric; Swanson, Tyler; Yang, Fan; Hernandez, Jonathan et al.
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System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic approaches to C-lignin engineering in Medicago truncatula (open access)

Systematic approaches to C-lignin engineering in Medicago truncatula

Article describes how C-lignin is a homopolymer of caffeyl alcohol present in the seed coats of a variety of plant species including vanilla orchid, various cacti, and the ornamental plant Cleome hassleriana. The authors used information from a transcriptomic analysis of developing C. hassleriana seed coats to suggest strategies for engineering C-lignin in a heterologous system, using hairy roots of the model legume Medicago truncatula.
Date: June 12, 2023
Creator: Ha, Chan Man; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Zhuo, Chunliu; Pu, Yunqiao; Bryant, Nathan; Ragauskas, Arthur J. (Arthur Jonas), 1957- et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library