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Vertichem Corporation

Biojoule Ltd.

Caldera Health Limited

Clare Elton

James Douglas Watson

Ross L Prestidge

Tony James Lough

Helene Belanger

Jeroen Demmer

Claire Hall

Mohammed Farid

John Jj Chen

Jia-Long Yao

Alan MacFarlane

David Rex Musgrave

Mohammed Mehdi Farid

John Chen

In one aspect, a process for treating woody plant material is provided, the process involving contacting the plant material with a continuous flow of an aqueous ethanol solution at elevated temperature and pressure under conditions that promote extraction of ethanol-soluble lignin from the plant material and retention of hemicellulose sugars, xylose and cellulose in the treated plant material solids. In another aspect, a process for extracting hemicellulose sugars from lignin-depleted plant material solids is provided, the process involving contacting lignin-depleted plant material with water at elevated temperature and pressure under conditions that promote extraction of hemicellulose sugars from the plant material; and recovering hemicellulose sugars from the liquid mixture.

Recovery of lignin and water soluble sugars from plant materials

Novel isolated plant polynucleotide promoter sequences are provided, together with genetic constructs comprising such polynucleotides. Methods for using such constructs in modulating the transcription of DNA sequences of interest are also disclosed, together with transgenic plants comprising such constructs.

Compositions and methods for the modification of gene expression

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Auckland, New Zealand

Clare Elton