Red xylem and higher lignin extractability by down-regulating a cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase in poplar

Plant Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1479-1490

  Baucher, Marie ^a,b,c   Chabbert, Brigitte ^d   Pilate, Gilles ^d   Van Doorsselaere, Jan ^a   Tollier, Marie Thérèse ^d   Petit Conil, Michel ^e   Cornu, Daniel ^d   Monties, Bernard ^d   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b,c   Jouanin, Lise ^d   Boerjan, Wout ^a  

^a Laboratorium Voor Genetica   (France)

^b Inst Natl la Rech Agronom Biol   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e CENTRE TECHNIQUE DU PAPIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULUS; POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 12644283533     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.4.1479     Document Type: Article

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