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Organisation
Boerjan Lab
Research Group
Main organisation:VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Lifecycle:1 Jan 2017 → Today
Organisation profile:Engineering plant cell wall composition for a more cost-effective conversion of plant biomass into fermentable sugars or aromatic building blocks, understanding the biosynthesis, polymerization and structure of lignin, and how lignin biosynthesis integrates into plant metabolism and development, characterizing of metabolites, identifying new genes in aromatic metabolism.
Keywords:Plant Genetics, Plant Development, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Immunology
Disciplines:Molecular and cell biology, Plant biology, Systems biology, Ecology, Evolutionary biology