European Research and Project Office GmbH 1 article published in JoVE Environment Transcript and Metabolite Profiling for the Evaluation of Tobacco Tree and Poplar as Feedstock for the Bio-based Industry Colin Ruprecht1, Takayuki Tohge1, Alisdair Fernie1, Cara L. Mortimer2, Amanda Kozlo2, Paul D. Fraser2, Norma Funke1, Igor Cesarino3,4, Ruben Vanholme3,4, Wout Boerjan3,4, Kris Morreel3,4, Ingo Burgert5,6, Notburga Gierlinger5,6, Vincent Bulone7, Vera Schneider8, Andrea Stockero8, Juan Navarro-Aviñó9, Frank Pudel10, Bart Tambuyser11, James Hygate12, Jon Bumstead13, Louis Notley13, Staffan Persson1,14 1Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, 2School of Biological Sciences, Plant Molecular Science, Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Royal Holloway, University of London, 3Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 4Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, UGhent, 5Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 6Applied Wood Materials, EMPA, 7Division of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 8European Research and Project Office GmbH, 9ABBA Gaia S.L., 10Pflanzenöltechnologie, 11Capax Environmental Services, 12Green Fuels, 13Neutral Consulting Ltd, 14Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne Plant biomass offers a renewable resource for multiple products, including fuel, feed, food, and a variety of materials. In this paper we investigate the properties of tobacco tree (Nicotiana glauca) and poplar as suitable sources for a biorefinery pipeline.
