CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutation of FERULATE 5-HYDROXYLASE enhances adsorption capacity of lignocellulose-based porous carbon from paper mulberry

Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. Liangcai Peng for critical discussion of the manuscript and Prof. Yaoguang Liu for providing the pYLCRISPR/Cas9 35S-H and pYLsgRNA-AtU3 plasmids. This work was supported by the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong (to C.F.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 32300320 and 32270368), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (2021ZDSYS29), and Qingdao New Energy Shandong Laboratory of KeyProjects Programs (QNESL KPP202302).

Author contributions

C.F., F.H., X.Q., Y.X., Y.C., and W.Z. designed the research; F.H., Y.X., Y.C., W.K., R.L., Y.L., and Y.W. performed experiments; C.F., F.H., Y.X., Y.C., W.Z., Z.W., and X.Q. analyzed the data; C.F., F.H., W.Z., and X.Q. wrote the manuscript.

Data availability

The data sets supporting the findings of this study are available in the Figshare database under the accession 10.6084/m9.figshare.25425286.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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