Maureen C. McCann

TL;DR: The ability of artificial neural networks to classify infrared spectra from cell walls provides a means to identify many possible classes of cell wall phenotypes and can be broadened to phenotypes resulting from mutations in genes encoding proteins for which a function is yet to be described.

TL;DR: Differences in both the composition and the architecture of walls of elongating cells at the level of a single cell are defined, and polymers not previously thought to be ordered, such as pectin and protein, are strictly oriented in some wall types.

TL;DR: Progress in identifying the cytological, biochemical and molecular markers of xylem formation has allowed questions of cell commitment to a particular fate to be addressed, and the process is both inducible and highly synchronous.

TL;DR: Genetic modification of lignin composition can enhance the portfolio of aromatic products obtained from lignocellulosic biomass while promoting disassembly into biofuel and bioproduct substrates and inform a ‘no carbon left behind’ strategy to convert total woody biomass into lign in, cellulose, and hemicellulose value streams for the future biorefinery.