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Redefine biomass recalcitrance beyond enzymatic resistance to account for multi-scale factors and diverse chemical, thermochemical, and biochemical conversion technologies.

June 9, 2015Journal of Experimental BotanyOpen Access

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Redefine biomass recalcitrance beyond enzymatic resistance to account for multi-scale factors and diverse chemical, thermochemical, and biochemical conversion technologies.
Evaluated limitations of traditional lignin-centric models of enzymatic recalcitrance across catalytic, thermochemical, and biochemical pathways.
Synthesized multi-scale determinants of processing resistance spanning molecular, nanoscale, and macroscale plant structural features.
Redefined recalcitrance as biomass characteristics that disproportionately increase conversion energy, operational costs, and processing complexity, or reduce carbon recovery.
Identified natural genetic diversity screening, transgenic approaches, and synthetic biology as viable strategies to reduce biomass recalcitrance across multiple conversion platforms.

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Review reveals multi-scale determinants of plant biomass recalcitrance across varied conversion platforms, highlighting genetic and synthetic biology strategies to maximize carbon recovery.

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McCann et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaa1961b5e32d7ae6559265 https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv267

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Review reveals multi-scale determinants of plant biomass recalcitrance across varied conversion platforms, highlighting genetic and synthetic biology strategies to maximize carbon recovery.

Biomass recalcitrance: a multi-scale, multi-factor, and conversion-specific property: Fig. 1.

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Biomass recalcitrance: a multi-scale, multi-factor, and conversion-specific property: Fig. 1.

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