Jenny C. Mortimer

Jun 14, 2023 | nature.com | Peng Sun |XinYu Han |Laetitia Fouillen |Wenqing Zhou |Rashmi Jain |Xiaoyang Chen | +8 more

AbstractThe discovery and application of genome editing introduced a new era of plant breeding by giving researchers efficient tools for the precise engineering of crop genomes1. Here we demonstrate the power of genome editing for engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice (Oryza sativa). We first isolated a lesion mimic mutant (LMM) from a mutagenized rice population.

Mar 9, 2023 | nature.com | Yu Gao |Igor V. Grigoriev |Jenny C. Mortimer |John Ralph |Blake Simmons |Steven Singer | +3 more

AbstractLignocellulose forms plant cell walls, and its three constituent polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, represent the largest renewable organic carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere. Insights into biological lignocellulose deconstruction inform understandings of global carbon sequestration dynamics and provide inspiration for biotechnologies seeking to address the current climate crisis by producing renewable chemicals from plant biomass.