Lignin Modification for Digestibility in Forage Crops: Trade-Offs With Lodging and Pathogen Entry

Abstract

Lignin Modification for Digestibility in Forage Crops has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working breeding or
production programme can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for lignin modification for digestibility in forage crops, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost
angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and regulators are still largely working it out
for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout
or blanket avoidance