Structural characterization of modified lignin in transgenic tobacco plants in which the activity of 4-coumarate:coenzyme A ligase is depressed

Plant Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 871-879

  Kajita, Shinya ^a   Hishiyama, Shojiro ^b   Tomimura, Yoichi ^b   Katayama, Yoshihiro ^c   Omori, Shunji ^a  

^a University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 COUMARATE COENZYME A LIGASE; COUMARIC ACID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGNIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XYLEM;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031397319     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.3.871     Document Type: Article

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