Importance of suberin biopolymer in plant function, contributions to soil organic carbon and in the production of bio-derived energy and materials

Anne E. Harman-Ware; Samuel Sparks; Bennett Addison; Udaya C. Kalluri

doi:10.1186/s13068-021-01892-3

Importance of suberin biopolymer in plant function, contributions to soil organic carbon and in the production of bio-derived energy and materials

Anne E. Harman-Ware, Samuel Sparks, Bennett Addison, Udaya C. Kalluri

Plant Systems Biology

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Abstract

Suberin is a hydrophobic biopolymer of significance in the production of biomass-derived materials and in biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we describe suberin structure and biosynthesis, and its importance in biological (i.e., plant bark and roots), ecological (soil organic carbon) and economic (biomass conversion to bioproducts) contexts. Furthermore, we highlight the genomics and analytical approaches currently available and explore opportunities for future technologies to study suberin in quantitative and/or high-throughput platforms in bioenergy crops. A greater understanding of suberin structure and production in lignocellulosic biomass can be leveraged to improve representation in life cycle analysis and techno-economic analysis models and enable performance improvements in plant biosystems as well as informed crop system management to achieve economic and environmental co-benefits.

Original language	English
Article number	75
Journal	Biotechnology for Biofuels
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-021-01892-3
State	Published - Dec 2021

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The authors thank Bryon Donohoe and Tim Tschaplinski for helpful discussion and review of an early draft of manuscript. SS was part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Higher Education Research Experiences (HERE) Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan(http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Keywords

Bioenergy
Biomass
Biomaterial
Biopolymer
Carbon
Cork
Genomics
Root
Soil
Suberin

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