Title |
Manipulating cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) expression in flax affects fibre composition and properties
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Published in |
BMC Plant Biology, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2229-14-50 |
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Authors |
Marta Preisner, Anna Kulma, Jacek Zebrowski, Lucyna Dymińska, Jerzy Hanuza, Malgorzata Arendt, Michal Starzycki, Jan Szopa |
Abstract |
In recent decades cultivation of flax and its application have dramatically decreased. One of the reasons for this is unpredictable quality and properties of flax fibre, because they depend on environmental factors, retting duration and growing conditions. These factors have contribution to the fibre composition, which consists of cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin and pectin. By far, it is largely established that in flax, lignin reduces an accessibility of enzymes either to pectin, hemicelluloses or cellulose (during retting or in biofuel synthesis and paper production).Therefore, in this study we evaluated composition and properties of flax fibre from plants with silenced CAD (cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase) gene, which is key in the lignin biosynthesis. There is evidence that CAD is a useful tool to improve lignin digestibility and/or to lower the lignin levels in plants. |
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