Production of Plants with Reduced Lignin Content

• Main Authors: BOUCHABKE-COUSSA OUMAYA, BERTHET SERGE, AYANGMA BRICE, JOUANIN LISE, LAPIERRE CATHERINE, MAZEL JULIEN, LEPLE JEANARLES, GUIDERDONI EMMANUEL, SIBOUT RICHARD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.07.2012
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FIRELIGHTERS; FISHING; FORESTRY; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NATURAL GAS; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PAPER-MAKING; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; PULP COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TEXTILES; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; VINEGAR; WINE

The invention relates to the production of plants having a reduced lignin content and in which the cellulose hydrolysis of the walls is increased, via the total or partial inhibition of the expression and/or the activity of two laccases in said plant.