Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden, in collaboration with scientists from Finland, Vietnam, India, and Italy, have ...

If the lignin content of plants can be reduced ... from earlier attempts to control lignification for the paper and wood-pulp industry, which also struggles to remove this 'concrete' in wood's ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...