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 (Research group)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1993 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 31
- 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 → TodayFunding: 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 catlysisFrom1 Mar 2020 → TodayFunding: 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)
- Exploring the physiological functions of the endogenous plant growth regulator cis-cinnamic acidFrom1 Nov 2019 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Exploring and broadening the valorization potential of ugt72e-mediated growth restoration of low-lignin plantsFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Mar 2023Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
Publications
11 - 20 of 153
- Overexpression of the scopoletin biosynthetic pathway enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing(2022)
Authors: Lennart Hoengenaert, Marlies Wouters, Hoon Kim, Barbara De Meester, Kris Morreel, Steven Vandersyppe, Jacob Pollier, Sandrien Desmet, Geert Goeminne, John Ralph, et al.
- Transcriptional and metabolic changes associated with internode development and reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity in sorghum(2022)
Authors: Sávio Siqueira Ferreira, Geert Goeminne, Marcella Siqueira Simões, André Vicioli de Almeida Pina, Leydson Gabriel Alves de Lima, Jade Pezard, Ana Gutiérrez, Jorge Rencoret, Jenny C Mortimer, José C del Río, et al.
Pages: 6307 - 6333 - Hydroxycinnamic acidU+2010modified xylan side chains and their crossU+2010linking products in rice cell walls are reduced in the Xylosyl arabinosyl substitution of xylan 1 mutant(2022)
Authors: Carolina Feijao, Kris Morreel, Nadine Anders, Theodora Tryfona, Marta BusseU+2010Wicher, Toshihisa Kotake, Wout Boerjan, Paul Dupree
Pages: 1152 - 1167 - Flexible and digestible wood caused by viral-induced alteration of cell wall composition(2022)
Authors: Holly Allen, Leo Zeef, Kris Morreel, Geert Goeminne, Manoj Kumar, Leonardo D. Gomez, Andrew P. Dean, Axel Eckmann, Cinzia Casiraghi, Simon J. McQueen-Mason, et al.
Pages: 3398 - 3406 - Synthesis of hydroxycinnamoyl shikimates and their role in monolignol biosynthesis(2022)
Authors: Dharshana Padmakshan, Vitaliy, I Timokhin, Fachuang Lu, Paul F. Schatz, Ruben Vanholme, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph
Pages: 133 - 144 - Engineering Curcumin Biosynthesis in Poplar Affects Lignification and Biomass Yield(2022)
Authors: Barbara De Meester, Paula Oyarce Sgro, Ruben Vanholme, Rebecca Van Acker, Yukiko Tsuji, Thijs Vangeel, Sander Van den Bosch, Jan Van Doorsselaere, Bert Sels, John Ralph, et al.
- Field and saccharification performances of poplars severely downregulated in CAD1(2022)
Authors: Barbara De Meester, Rebecca Van Acker, Marlies Wouters, Silvia Traversari, Jenny Neukermans, Frank Van Breusegem, Annabelle Déjardin, Gilles Pilate, Wout Boerjan
Pages: 2075 - 2090 - Rerouting of the lignin biosynthetic pathway by inhibition of cytosolic shikimate recycling in transgenic hybrid aspen(2022)
Authors: Shi Hu, Naofumi Kamimura, Shingo Sakamoto, Soichiro Nagano, Naoki Takata, Sarah Liu, Geert Goeminne, Ruben Vanholme, Mikiko Uesugi, Masanobu Yamamoto, et al.
Pages: 358 - 376 - Incorporation of catechyl monomers into lignins : lignification from the non-phenolic end via DielsU+2013Alder cycloaddition?(2021)
Authors: Daisuke Ando, Fachuang Lu, Hoon Kim, Alexis Eugene, Yuki Tobimatsu, Ruben Vanholme, Thomas J. Elder, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph
Pages: 8995 - 9013 - Maize specialized metabolome networks reveal organ-preferential mixed glycosides(2021)
Authors: Sandrien Desmet, Yvan Saeys, Kevin Verstaen, Rebecca Dauwe, Hoon Kim, Claudiu Niculaes, Atsushi Fukushima, Geert Goeminne, Ruben Vanholme, John Ralph, et al.
Pages: 1127 - 1144
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)