An international team of scientists has discovered
a new plant enzyme that could eventually lead to a breakthrough in the production of cellulosic bio-based fuels made from crop wastes, as well as chemicals and plastics.
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By soaking them in water, the
enzymes come to life and can be
planted to produce
new trees.
During germination, the seed produces all the
enzymes it needs to utilize the nutrients stored to help a
new plant get started.
It also identifies
enzymes that are specialised for breaking down
plant material, which could help in the quest to develop
new biofuels.
To confirm whether this
new enzyme performed the same role as the other xanthophyll
enzymes, the researchers inserted the CVDE gene into mutant forms of algae and
plants that do not produce zeaxanthin.
Lippman and Cora MacAlister, Ph.D., lead author on the
new paper, found that deleting the genes for these
enzymes from the flowering mustard
plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens resulted in similar defects in both species, which are widely separated in evolutionary time.
In contrast to the original
plant compound, the
new substance can no longer be cleaved by the
plant enzyme to generate the toxin.
Their natural defence systems include
enzyme inhibitors and toxic substances that will be removed naturally once the ideal circumstances are gathered to germinate those seeds for a
new plant or tree.
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