Modified Lignin and Delignification with a CAD-Deficient Loblolly Pine

Holzforschung

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 403-410

  MacKay, John ^a,b   Presnell, Tim ^a,c   Jameel, Hasan ^a   Taneda, Hidetaka ^d   O'Malley, David ^a   Sederoff, Ronald ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MeadWestvaco Corporation   (United States)

^d NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coniferaldehyde; Delignification; Genetic modification; Lignin mutant; Pine; Soda pulping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346156220     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.1999.067     Document Type: Article

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