Daniel Cornu

TL;DR: Kraft pulping of tree trunks showed that the reduced-CAD lines had improved characteristics, allowing easier delignification, using smaller amounts of chemicals, while yielding more high-quality pulp, highlighting the potential of engineering wood quality for more environmentally benign papermaking without interfering with tree growth or fitness.

TL;DR: The results indicate that reducing the CAD activity in trees might be a valuable strategy to optimize certain processes of the wood industry, especially those of the pulp and paper industry.

TL;DR: Although the lignin composition was consistently modified, theLignin content of the transgenic poplars was similar to that of the controls, and a similar phenotype was observed in brown-midrib mutants of maize and sorghum, known for their altered lignification.

TL;DR: Test the potential of proteinase inhibitors to control Chrysomela tremulae, a beetle that causes severe damage in young plantations and in short-rotation intensive culture (SRIC) of poplar, and OCI, a cysteine proteinase inhibitor, was shown to inhibit this activity in vitro.

TL;DR: A transformation procedure was developed for hybrid larch embryogenic tissue using Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and stable integration of the transgene was confirmed by PCR and Southern hybridisation on transformed tissues and acclimatised plants.