A study from our group spanning 18 months found no significant differences in the extent of decomposition between field-grown wild-type and lignin-modified poplar wood; indeed, the variation ...

Carbon fiber is a critical material for industries such as aerospace and automotive, prized for its strength and lightweight ...

which also struggles to remove this 'concrete' in wood's fibre-and-matrix composite structure. And controlling a plant's lignin content has also been targeted in order to create more digestible ...

Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make ...

The bio-based material makes use of lignin, the chief constituent of wood that is typically discarded and burned in paper and pulp mills. A method developed by the eponymous Lignin Industries ...

After growing inside a greenhouse for six months, the CRISPR trees showed significant improvements in desirable wood properties compared to wild type trees. In the most drastic cases, the lignin ...