Additionally, only xylem cells are lined with lignin -- supportive structural materials that provide rigidity to wood and bark. The researchers wanted to understand how these vascular systems ...

Plants without enough lignin can have problems with their xylem tissues collapsing, inhibiting water and nutrient transfer from the plant's roots. One strategy, which has already been successfully ...

like xylan and lignin," said Sarah Pfaff, postdoctoral scholar at the Penn State Eberly College of Science, who led the ...

In addition to some typical players needed to form the xylem, new and surprising genes were found. The second key set of genes are those that direct an outer layer of the root to produce lignin ...

The xylem walls consist of thin membranes made of lignin and cellulose. Sap can pass through tiny pores in these membranes, but potentially harmful bubbles within that liquid cannot. Back in 2014 ...

Lignin, a by-product of the forest industry, can be used to produce sustainable materials that can replace traditional plastics. This has been revealed in a research project at the University of ...

Researchers have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture and one of the most common biopolymers. Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at ...