CRISPR/Cas9 Application in Poplar Trees
| Source | Web search www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201006114227.… |
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| Organization | VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) |
| Website URL | vib.be |
| Market status | Early Stage Concept + More information needed |
| Industry | Industrial |
| Value chain stage | Input + Platform |
| Business models | B2B |
| Product categories | Construction + Chemical |
| Biotech components | Gene Editing |
| Organization type(s) | Research Institution |
| Notes | "o “Researchers led by prof. Wout Boerjan (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) have discovered a way to stably finetune the amount of lignin in poplar by applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Lignin is one of the main structural substances in plants and it makes processing wood into, for example, paper difficult. This study is an important breakthrough in the development of wood resources for the production of paper with a lower carbon footprint, biofuels, and other bio-based materials.” |