Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Improving wood properties for wood utilization through multi-omics integration in lignin biosynthesis

  • Jack P. Wang,
  • Megan L. Matthews,
  • Cranos M. Williams,
  • Rui Shi,
  • Chenmin Yang,
  • Sermsawat Tunlaya-Anukit,
  • Hsi-Chuan Chen,
  • Quanzi Li,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Chien-Yuan Lin,
  • Punith Naik,
  • Ying-Hsuan Sun,
  • Philip L. Loziuk,
  • Ting-Feng Yeh,
  • Hoon Kim,
  • Erica Gjersing,
  • Todd Shollenberger,
  • Christopher M. Shuford,
  • Jina Song,
  • Zachary Miller,
  • Yung-Yun Huang,
  • Charles W. Edmunds,
  • Baoguang Liu,
  • Yi Sun,
  • Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin,
  • Wei Li,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Ilona Peszlen,
  • Joel J. Ducoste,
  • John Ralph,
  • Hou-Min Chang,
  • David C. Muddiman,
  • Mark F. Davis,
  • Chris Smith,
  • Fikret Isik,
  • Ronald Sederoff,
  • Vincent L. Chiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03863-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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A systematic analysis of lignin biosynthetic genes to quantitatively understand their effect on wood properties is still lacking. Here, the authors integrate transcriptomic, proteomic, fluxomic and phenomic data to quantify the impact of perturbations of transcript abundance on lignin biosynthesis and wood properties.