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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2017
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Jin-Gui Chen, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Lee E. Gunter, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Sara S. Jawdy, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Xiaohan Yang, Knoxville, TN (US);
Gerald A. Tuskan, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Anthony Christian Bryan, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides genetically modified plants having desirable levels of sugar release and syringyl/guaiacyl (S/G) ratio; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate sugar release and S/G ratio; and uses of such plants. The inventors have determined that genetic modification of a laccase gene (LAC2) from, encoded by locus Potri.008G064000 resulted in transgenictrees with changes in syringyl/guaiacyl ratios as well as altered sugar release phenotypes. Plants with altered sugar release, and S/G ratio, based on modulation of the expression or activity of the LAC2 gene, have divergent uses including pulp and paper production, and biofuel and bioproducts production.