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
21 - 30 of 153
- Rewired phenolic metabolism and improved saccharification efficiency of a Zea mays cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (zmcad2) mutant(2021)
Authors: Xinyu Liu, Rebecca Van Acker, Wannes Voorend, Andreas Pallidis, Geert Goeminne, Jacob Pollier, Kris Morreel, Hoon Kim, Hilde Muylle, Mickael Bosio, et al.
Pages: 1240 - 1257 - Two chemically distinct root lignin barriers control solute and water balance(2021)
Authors: Guilhem Reyt, Priya Ramakrishna, Isai Salas-González, Satoshi Fujita, Ashley Love, David Tiemessen, Catherine Lapierre, Kris Morreel, Monica Calvo-Polanco, Paulina Flis, et al.
- Seedling developmental defects upon blocking CINNAMATEU+20104U+2010HYDROXYLASE are caused by perturbations in auxin transport(2021)
Authors: Ilias El Houari, Caroline Van Beirs, Helena Arents, Huibin Han, Alexandra Alvarenga Chanoca, Davy Opdenacker, Jacob Pollier, Veronique Storme, Ward Steenackers, Mussa Quareshy, et al.
Pages: 2275 - 2291 - Seeing the forest for the trees : retrieving plant secondary biochemical pathways from metabolome networks(2021)
Authors: Sandrien Desmet, Wout Boerjan, Kris Morreel
Pages: 72 - 85 - Improved chemical pulping and saccharification of a natural mulberry mutant deficient in cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase(2021)
Authors: Tsutomu Ikeda, Naoki Takata, Shingo Sakamoto, Shi Hu, [missing] Nuoendagula, Shojiro Hishiyama, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Wout Boerjan, John Ralph, Shinya Kajita
Pages: 968 - 977 - Behind the scenes : the impact of bioactive phenylpropanoids on the growth phenotypes of Arabidopsis lignin mutants(2021)
Authors: Ilias El Houari, Wout Boerjan, Bartel Vanholme
- CRISPR‐Cas9 editing of Caffeoyl Shikimate Esterase 1 and 2 shows their importance and partial redundancy in lignification in Populus tremula x P. alba(2021)
Authors: Lisanne de Vries, Alexandra Alvarenga Chanoca, Hoon Kim, Matthew R. Regner, Vitaliy I. Timokhin, Yi Sun, Barbara De Meester, Jan Van Doorsselaere, Geert Goeminne, Vincent L. Chiang, et al.
Pages: 2221 - 2234 - Compensatory guaiacyl lignin biosynthesis at the expense of syringyl lignin in 4CL1-knockout poplar(2020)
Authors: Chung-Jui Tsai, Peng Xu, Liang-Jiao Xue, Hao Hu, Batbayar Nyamdari, Radnaa Naran, Xiaohong Zhou, Geert Goeminne, Ruili Gao, Erica Gjersing, et al.
Pages: 123 - 136 - Cell wall remodeling under salt stress : insights into changes in polysaccharides, feruloylation, lignification, and phenolic metabolism in maize(2020)
Authors: Dyoni M. Oliveira, Thatiane R. Mota, Fábio V. Salatta, Renata C. Sinzker, Radka Koncitíková, David Kopecný, Rachael Simister, Mariana Silva, Geert Goeminne, Kris Morreel, et al.
Pages: 2172 - 2191 - Molecular changes concomitant with vascular system development in mature galls induced by root-knot nematodes in the model tree host Populus tremula × P. alba(2020)
Authors: Fabien Baldacci-Cresp, Marc Behr, Annegret Kohler, Nelly Badalato, Kris Morreel, Geert Goeminne, Adeline Mol, Janice de Almeida Engler, Wout Boerjan, Mondher El Jaziri, et al.
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)