Downregulating aspen xylan biosynthetic GT43 genes in developing wood stimulates growth via reprograming of the transcriptome

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Plant cell wall is a complex composite material build by cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. We discovered that the suppressing of hemicellulose biosynthesis in aspen leads to increased growth and better conversion of wood to simple sugars. The strategy can be used to optimize trees for short rotation plantations devoted to biorefinery applications.

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