Professor John Ralph and his group were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 International Symposium on Wood, Fiber and Pulping Chemistry for their work on lignin biosynthesis.
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Fox and Ralph awarded DOE grant to characterize gene function in bioenergy crop plants
Professors Brian Fox and John Ralph received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to uncover information about how enzymes controlling the composition of plant cell walls behave in vitro and in plants.
Fox, Ralph labs to use DOE grant to investigate enzymes in bioenergy crops
Researchers in the UW–Madison biochemistry department and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will utilize a $2.1 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to elucidate the properties of a potentially useful and understudied class of genes and enzymes in important bioenergy crops, such as poplar, sorghum, and switchgrass.
Relieving two headaches with one process
With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, biochemistry and energy researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to relieve two headaches at once.