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SUBMITTER: Stamatiou G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3561329 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stamatiou George G Vidaurre Danielle P DP Shim Isaac I Tang Xurong X Moeder Wolfgang W Bonetta Dario D McCourt Peter P
PloS one 20130131 1
With their unique metabolism and the potential to produce large amounts of biomass, plants are an excellent bio-energy feedstock for a variety of industrial purposes. Here we developed a high-throughput strategy, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, to identify mutants with improved sugar release from plant biomass. Molecular analysis indicates a variety of processes including starch degradation, cell wall composition and polar transport of the plant hormone auxin can contribute to this i ...[more]