期刊
MOLECULAR PLANT
卷 5, 期 4, 页码 817-830出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssr097
关键词
Maize; lignification; lignocellulosic biomass; secondary cell wall
资金
- Spanish 'Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion' [AGL2008-05157]
- European Community [QLK5-CT-2000-01493]
- CONSOLIDER-INGENIO program [CSD2007-00036]
- 'Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas'
- Spanish 'Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia'
- DGICYT [CGL2008-02470BOS]
- Junta de Castilla y Leon [LE004A10-2]
Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) is a key enzyme involved in the last step of monolignol biosynthesis. The effect of CAD down-regulation on lignin production was investigated through a transgenic approach in maize. Transgenic CAD-RNAi plants show a different degree of enzymatic reduction depending on the analyzed tissue and show alterations in cell wall composition. Cell walls of CAD-RNAi stems contain a lignin polymer with a slight reduction in the S-to-G ratio without affecting the total lignin content. In addition, these cell walls accumulate higher levels of cellulose and arabinoxylans. In contrast, cell walls of CAD-RNAi midribs present a reduction in the total lignin content and of cell wall polysaccharides. In vitro degradability assays showed that, although to a different extent, the changes induced by the repression of CAD activity produced midribs and stems more degradable than wild-type plants. CAD-RNAi plants grown in the field presented a wild-type phenotype and produced higher amounts of dry biomass. Cellulosic bioethanol assays revealed that CAD-RNAi biomass produced higher levels of ethanol compared to wild-type, making CAD a good target to improve both the nutritional and energetic values of maize lignocellulosic biomass.
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