Title |
A zoom into the nanoscale texture of secondary cell walls
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Published in |
Plant Methods, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1746-4811-10-1 |
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Authors |
Tobias Keplinger, Johannes Konnerth, Véronique Aguié-Béghin, Markus Rüggeberg, Notburga Gierlinger, Ingo Burgert |
Abstract |
Besides classical utilization of wood and paper, lignocellulosic biomass has become increasingly important with regard to biorefinery, biofuel production and novel biomaterials. For these new applications the macromolecular assembly of cell walls is of utmost importance and therefore further insights into the arrangement of the molecules on the nanolevel have to be gained. Cell wall recalcitrance against enzymatic degradation is one of the key issues, since an efficient degradation of lignocellulosic plant material is probably the most crucial step in plant conversion to energy. A limiting factor for in-depth analysis is that high resolution characterization techniques provide structural but hardly chemical information (e.g. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)), while chemical characterization leads to a disassembly of the cell wall components or does not reach the required nanoscale resolution (Fourier Tranform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman Spectroscopy). |
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