Structural alterations of lignins in transgenic poplars with depressed cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase or caffeic acid O-methyltransferase activity have an opposite impact on the efficiency of industrial kraft pulping

Plant Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-163

  Lapierre, Catherine ^a   Pollet, Brigitte ^a   Petit Conil, Michel ^b   Toval, Gabriel ^c   Romero, Javier ^c   Pilate, Gilles ^d   Leplé, Jean Charles ^d   Boerjan, Wout ^e   Ferret, Valérie ^d   De Nadai, Véronique ^d   Jouanin, Lise ^d  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b CENTRE TECHNIQUE DU PAPIER   (France)

^c Ctro Invest Empresa Nac Celulosas   (Spain)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEIC ACID O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; LIGNIN; PULPING; SYRINGALDEHYDE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 0032840888     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.1.153     Document Type: Article

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