Abstract
One of the challenges of developing useful biotech plants is that they have to be grown in non-laboratory conditions, which can affect their predicted outcome. Gilles Pilate and colleagues tested Populus trees that were transgenically reduced in lignin biosynthesis, which might alleviate the need for toxic processing to remove lignin during the pulping process [Nat. Biotechnol. (2002) 20, 607–612]. The researchers grew lignin-reduced transgenic trees in two sites over four years and found that their agronomic performance was equivalent to normal lignin-containing trees. Importantly, the lignin-reduced transgenic trees used less pulping chemicals and in some cases, resulted in an increased yield of paper. TS
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