Production of plants with reduced lignin content.

Lise Jouanin (1) , Serge Berthet (1) , Catherine Lapierre (1) , Emmanuel Guiderdoni (2) , Oumaya Bouchabke-Coussa (1) , Richard Sibout (1) , Jean-Charles Leplé (3) , Julien Mazel (1) , Brice Ayangma (3)

1 IJPB - Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin
2 UMR AGAP - Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales
3 AGPF - Unité de recherche Amélioration, Génétique et Physiologie Forestières

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.

Keywords: production de plante

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Lise Jouanin, Serge Berthet, Catherine Lapierre, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Oumaya Bouchabke-Coussa, et al.. Production of plants with reduced lignin content.. France, Patent n° : US 2012/0192312 A1. 2012. ⟨hal-01203978⟩