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Project

Pathway discovery in ferulic acid metabolism with relevance to lignin biosynthesis

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3E003711

Duration

01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Wout Boerjan

Fellow

Ruben Vanholme

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Plant genetics
Agricultural and food sciences
- Food sciences and (bio)technology not elsewhere classified

Keywords

arabidopsis lignomics reverse genetics metabolomics ferulate lignin phenolic metabolism ferulic acid LC-MS cell wall

Project description

Ferulic acid is a precursor for several important metabolic classes (including lignin) in plants, but is nevertheless barely studied. This project aims at pathway discovery in the FA metabolism in the model system Arabidopsis via metabolomic and reverse-genetic techniques.

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