Down-regulation of caffeic acid O-methyltransferase in maize revisited using a transgenic approach

Plant Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1675-1685

  Piquemal, Joel ^a,e   Chamayou, Simon ^a,e   Nadaud, Isabelle ^b   Beckert, Michel ^b   Barrière, Yves ^b   Mila, Isabelle ^c   Lapierre, Catherine ^c   Rigau, Joan ^d   Puigdomenech, Pere ^d   Jauneau, Alain ^a   Digonnet, Catherine ^a   Boudet, Alain Michel ^a   Goffner, Deborah ^a   Pichon, Magalie ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e Euralis Génétique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGNIN;

TRANSGENIC EXPERIMENTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 12244269747     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.012237     Document Type: Article

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