Welcome to the Fifth Plants & Peoples webinar
-a joint venture between Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS)
The focus is “Recent breakthroughs in lignin chemistry and phenoloxidases for plant development and response to stresses”.
Register and watch the prerecorded presentations here.
The live event will take place on May 11, 2023
Stockholm 14:00 GMT+2
PROGRAM
14:00 Welcome by Zsofia R. Stangl
14:05 PART 1 – RECENT BREAKTHROUGHS IN LIGNIN FORMATION IN PLANTS
Edouard Pesquet
Short introduction: “Different cell types require specific lignin chemistry to optimally function”
14:15 Igor Cesarino
A star is born: the emerging roles of CAFFEOYL SHIKIMATE ESTERASE (CSE) in the phenolic metabolism
14:25 Jorge Rencoret and José del Rio
Lignin monomers from beyond the canonical monolignol biosynthetic pathway
14:35 Wout Boerjan
Engineering lignin in poplar without yield penalty
14:45 Lennart Hoengenaert
Overexpression of the scopoletin biosynthetic pathway enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing
14:55 PART 2 – RECENT BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE ROLE OF PHENOLOXIDASES
Edouard Pesquet Short introduction: ”Spatial control of lignin chemistry by laccase combinations”
15:05 Petr Smýkal
The role on polyphenol oxidase in seed hilum
15:15 Esther Novo Uzal
Syringyl peroxidases in plant evolution
15:25 Anna Kärkönen (Happonen)
Respiratory burst oxidase homolog (PaRBOH1) of Norway spruce and its regulation
15:35 Jaime Barros-Rios
Metabolic responses to lignin pathway perturbations in Brachypodium
