If the lignin content of plants can be reduced, it should be easier to turn woody plant mass into ethanol, glucose or other potential products of microbial metabolism. To that end, there has been ...

About 98% of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded, but a new enzyme could be the key to ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...

Following the same reasoning as Talukder, the consequence of modified lignin plants decomposing more slowly over the longer term would be that carbon would be held up in soils for a longer period ...

Both lignin and cellulose are found in the rigid cell walls of the xylem cells (those that conduct water) in the primitive plant, Selaginella. Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation ...

We synthesize new catalysts having affinity to lignin in plant cell walls and absorption properties of electromagnetic waves. We analyze hyperfine molecular structures of whole lignified plant tissues ...

Chang-Jun Liu, a senior scientist in Brookhaven's Biology Department, said, "The emergence of lignin, which provides ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Around 98 per cent of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded, but a new enzyme could be the key to extracting high-value molecules from this waste using a green chemistry ...

Around 98 per cent of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded, but a new enzyme could be the key to ...