APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Plant bioengineering ADVANTAGES: Fine-tunes RNA and protein expression Layering expression regulation Can be used for temporal and tissue specific expression repression ABSTRACT: A team of Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) researchers led by Dominique Loqué has developed a new plant bioengineering system for improved precision … [Read more...] about Translation Control Tool for Plant Bioengineering 2013-166
Biomass Feedstocks
Dominant Negative Mutations of Arabidopsis 2013-051
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Plant gene expression for biofuel feedstocks biomass as feedstocks for chemical industry ABSTRACT: Xylan is one of the major polysaccharides in cellulosic biomass. There are four Arabidopsis reduced wall acetylation (RWA) genes shown to be involved in the acetylation of xylan during secondary wall biosynthesis. This invention provides … [Read more...] about Dominant Negative Mutations of Arabidopsis 2013-051
Golgi Nucleotide Sugar Transporters as Tools for Cell Wall Modification 2013-092
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Feedstocks for biofuel production Non-plant glycosylation ADVANTAGES: Engineers plant cell wall composition by manipulating sugar substrates Offers pathway to optimizing plant cell walls for sugar content ABSTRACT: This Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) invention engineers plants by specifically modifying nucleotide sugar … [Read more...] about Golgi Nucleotide Sugar Transporters as Tools for Cell Wall Modification 2013-092
Creation of Heritable Traits in Chimeric Plants IB- 2013-171
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biofuels production Wood industry re: paper, pulping, construction Animal feed Agricultural industry re: seed quality ADVANTAGES: Enables desired heritable trait in chimeric plants Tissue-specific generation of SNPs and/or INDELs ABSTRACT: Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) researchers Dominique Loqué and Yan Liang have … [Read more...] about Creation of Heritable Traits in Chimeric Plants IB- 2013-171
Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Increasing production of a variety of products in specific plant tissue types. Examples include: Cereal crops: increased stem strength to reduce lodging and grain loss (e.g., in rice, wheat, barley, rye) Biofuels: reduced cell-wall recalcitrance in feedstocks (e.g., switchgrass, sugarcane, corn, poplar, eucalyptus) Low-water-use … [Read more...] about Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028