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
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- Plant cell wall profiling by fast maximum likelihood reconstruction (FMLR) and region-of-interest (ROI) segmentation of solution-state 2D 1H-13C NMR spectra(2013)
Authors: Roger A Chylla, Rebecca Van Acker, Hoon Kim, Ali Azapira, Purba Mukerjee, John L Markley, Veronique Storme, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph
- Breeding with rare defective alleles (BRDA): a natural Populus nigra HCT mutant with modified lignin as a case study(2013)
Authors: Bartel Vanholme, Igor Cesarino, Geert Goeminne, Hoon Kim, Fabio Marroni, Rebecca Van Acker, Ruben Vanholme, Kris Morreel, Bart Ivens, Sara Pinosio, et al.
Pages: 765 - 776 - Lignification in sugarcane: biochemical characterization, gene discovery, and expression analysis in two genotypes contrasting for lignin content(2013)
Authors: Alexandra Bottcher, Igor Cesarino, Adriana Brombini dos Santos, Renato Vicentini, Juliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, Ruben Vanholme, Kris Morreel, Geert Goeminne, Jullyana Cristina Magalhães Silva Moura, Paula Macedo Nobile, et al.
Pages: 1539 - 1557 - Visualization of plant cell wall lignification using fluorescence-tagged monolignols(2013)
Authors: Yuki Tobimatsu, Armin Wagner, Lloyd Donaldson, Prajakta Mitra, Claudiu Niculaes, Oana Dima, Jeong Im Kim, Nickolas Anderson, Domiinique Loque, Wout Boerjan, et al.
Pages: 357 - 366 - Caffeoyl shikimate esterase (CSE) is an enzyme in the lignin biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis(2013)
Authors: Ruben Vanholme, Igor Cesarino, Katarzyna Rataj, Yuguo Xiao, Lisa Sundin, Geert Goeminne, Hoon Kim, Joanna Cross, Kris Morreel, Pedro Araujo, et al.
Pages: 1103 - 1106 - Shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase (HCT) activity assays in Populus nigra(2013)
Authors: Igor Cesarino, Ruben Vanholme, Geert Goeminne, Bartel Vanholme, Wout Boerjan
- Towards a carbon-negative sustainable bio-based economy(2013)
Authors: Bartel Vanholme, Korneel Rabaey, Frank Van Breusegem, Wout Boerjan
- Suppression of CCR impacts metabolite profile and cell wall composition in Pinus radiata tracheary elements(2013)
Authors: Armin Wagner, Yuki Tobimatsu, Geert Goeminne, Lorelle Phillips, Heather Flint, Diane Steward, Kirk Torr, Lloyd Donaldson, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph
Pages: 105 - 117 - Retromer subunits VPS35A and VPS29 mediate prevacuolar compartment (PVC) function in Arabidopsis(2013)
Authors: Tomasz Nodzynski, Ioan Mugurel Feraru, Sibylle Hirsch, Claudiu Niculaes, Wout Boerjan, Jelle Van Leene, Geert De Jaeger, Steffen Vanneste, Jiri Friml
Pages: 1849 - 1862 - Expression of SofLAC, a new laccase in sugarcane, restores lignin content but not S:G ratio of Arabidopsis lac17 mutant(2013)
Authors: Igor Cesarino, Pedro Araújo, Juliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, Renato Vicentini, Serge Berthet, Brecht Demedts, Bartel Vanholme, Wout Boerjan, Paulo Mazzafera
Pages: 1769 - 1781
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)