Reduced lignin content and altered lignin composition in transgenic tobacco down-regulated in expression of L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase or cinnamate 4-hydroxylase

Plant Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-50

  Sewalt, Vincent J H ^a   Ni, Weiting ^c   Blount, Jack W ^a   Jung, Hans G ^c   Masoud, Sameer A ^a,d   Howles, Paul A ^a,e   Lamb, Chris ^b   Dixon, Richard A ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d JERASH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CINNAMATE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PYROLYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031397140     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.115.1.41     Document Type: Article

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