Lignins and lignification: Selected issues

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 81-96

  Boudet, Alain M ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Genes; Genetic engineering; Lignification; Lignin heterogeneity; Methyltransferases; Mutants; Oxidases

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; LIGNIFICATION; LIGNIN; MONOLIGNOL; MUTANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0034028789     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(00)00166-2     Document Type: Article

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