Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33743797›Full record

ReviewBiotechnology for biofuels2021

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

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Review in Biotechnology for biofuels, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Environmental impact and cost of bio-based hydrophobic multifunctional coatings.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026
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  8. Solid-state NMR at natural isotopic abundance for bioenergy applications.Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts · 2025
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  9. Environmental chemistry letters · 2024
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  13. The making of suberin.The New phytologist · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anne E Harman-WareRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA. anne.ware@nrel.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-9424
Samuel SparksBiosciences Division and Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA.
Bennett AddisonRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA.
Udaya C KalluriBiosciences Division and Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA. kalluriudayc@ornl.gov.
National Laboratory of the Rockies · USOak Ridge National Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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.

Indexed as

BioenergyBiomassBiomaterialBiopolymerCarbonCorkGenomicsRootSoilSuberin

Identifiers

PMID33743797
PMCPMC7981814
OpenAlexW3138921331

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