Researcher
Wout Boerjan
- Keywords (Ghent University):metabolomics, CRISPR/Cas9, maize, biotechnology, poplar, bioenergy, lignin biosynthesis, phenyl propanoids, genetic engineering, biomass processing
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Cell death and senescence, Invasion biology, Epigenomics, Auto-ecology, Biogeography and phylogeography
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Plant cell and molecular biology, Forestry breeding and biotechnology, Agricultural plant breeding and biotechnology, Plant genetics
- See also: Wout Boerjan (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
Affiliations
- Boerjan Lab
Responsible
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1993 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 33
- Positioning lignin as a central component in plant development.From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Genetic improvement of the processing efficiency of plant biomassFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Lignin engineering to improve lignocellulosic biomass processing efficiencyFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Functional characterization of NIC: a new player in the phenylpropanoid metabolic networkFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- Investigating O-methyltransferases potentially involved in lignin biosynthesis in maizeFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Unraveling the function of an O-methyltransferase potentially involved in lignin biosynthesis in maizeFrom1 Sep 2021 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Next generation lignocellulosics biorefinery concepts and implementation (Next-BIOREF)From1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2024Funding: BOF - iBOF
- ADV_BIO: Technological innovation in the production of advanced biofuels applicable to the Belgian territory for road and air transport and techno-economic and environmental analysesFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: Ministery of Economical Affairs
- Advanced Liquid Biofuels for advaced engine concepts enabled by advanced wood breeding and catalysisFrom1 Mar 2020 → 30 Jun 2024Funding: Ministery of Economical Affairs
- Developing transgene-free genome-engineered poplars to enabling field applications for the biobased economy.From1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
1 - 10 of 158
- Breeding for improved digestibility and processing of lignocellulosic biomass in Zea mays(2024)
Authors: Yasmine Vanhevel, Astrid De Moor, Hilde Muylle, Ruben Vanholme, Wout Boerjan
- Woody plant cell walls : fundamental and utilization(2024)
Authors: Wei Li, Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin, Ying-Lan Chen, Chenguang Zhou, Shuang Li, Nette De Ridder, Dyoni Oliveira, Lanjun Zhang, Baocai Zhang, Jack P. Wang, et al.
Pages: 112 - 140 - Extracellular vesicles of Norway spruce contain precursors and enzymes for lignin formation and salicylic acid(2024)
Authors: Santeri Kankaanpää, Enni Väisänen, Geert Goeminne, Rabah Soliymani, Sandrien Desmet, Anatoliy Samoylenko, Seppo Vainio, Gunnar Wingsle, Wout Boerjan, Ruben Vanholme, et al.
Pages: 788 - 809 - Social and biological innovations are essential to deliver transformative forest biotechnologies(2024)
Authors: Wout Boerjan, Steven H. Strauss
Pages: 526 - 536 - Hydroxycinnamaldehyde-derived benzofuran components in lignins(2024)
Authors: Koichi Yoshioka, Hoon Kim, Fachuang Lu, Nette De Ridder, Ruben Vanholme, Shinya Kajita, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph
Pages: 1370 - 1382 - Non-targeted discovery of high-value bio-products in Nicotiana glauca L : a potential renewable plant feedstock(2024)
Authors: Natalia Carreno-Quintero, Takayuki Tohge, Rebecca Van Acker, Lauren S. McKee, Qi Zhou, Antje Bolze, Xiaohui Xing, Merve Özparpucu, Markus Rüggeberg, Thomas Piofczyk, et al.
- Top five unanswered questions in plant cell surface research(2024)
Authors: Wout Boerjan, Vincent Burlat, Daniel J. Cosgrove, Christophe Dunand, Paul Dupree, Kalina T. Haas, Gwyneth Ingram, Elisabeth Jamet, Debra Mohnen, Steven Moussu, et al.
- Downregulation of barley ferulate 5-hydroxylase dramatically alters straw lignin structure without impact on mechanical properties(2023)
Authors: Reza Shafiei, Matthew Hooper, Christopher McClellan, Helena Oakey, Jennifer Stephens, Catherine Lapierre, Yukiko Tsuji, Geert Goeminne, Ruben Vanholme, Wout Boerjan, et al.
- Non‐specific effects of the CINNAMATE‐4‐HYDROXYLASE inhibitor piperonylic acid(2023)
Authors: Ilias El Houari, Petr Klíma, Alexandra Baekelandt, Paul E. Staswick, Veselina Uzunova, Charo I. Del Genio, Ward Steenackers, Petre I. Dobrev, Roberta Filepová, Ondrej Novák, et al.
Pages: 470 - 479 - QT–GWAS : a novel method for unveiling biosynthetic loci affecting qualitative metabolic traits(2023)
Authors: Marlies Brouckaert, Meng Peng, René Höfer, Ilias El Houari, Chiarina Darrah, Veronique Storme, Yvan Saeys, Ruben Vanholme, Geert Goeminne, Vitaliy I. Timokhin, et al.
Pages: 1212 - 1227
Patents
1 - 8 of 8
- Novel mutant plant Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase proteins (Inventor)
- Novel mutant plant Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase proteins (Inventor)
- Means and methods to increase coumarin production (Inventor)
- MEANS AND METHODS TO INCREASE PLANT BIOMASS (Inventor)
- Means and methods for altering the lignin pathway in plants (Inventor)
- Means and methods for altering the lignin pathway in plants (Inventor)
- AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PHENYL-PROPANOIC ACID DERIVATIVES FOR CROP YIELD INCREASE (Inventor)
- Means and methods to increase coumarin production (Inventor)