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Webinar: “Recent breakthroughs in lignin chemistry and phenoloxidases for plant development and response to stresses”

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

15:45 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH SPEAKERS AND THE AUDIENCE: The most pressing questions and the future of lignin and phenoloxidase research