Plant growth, biomass partitioning and soil carbon formation in response to altered lignin biosynthesis in Populus tremuloides

New Phytologist

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 732-742

  Hancock, Jessica E ^a,b   Loya, Wendy M ^a   Giardina, Christian P ^b   Li, Laigeng ^c   Chiang, Vincent L ^c   Pregitzer, Kurt S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Leaf area; Lignin; Photosynthesis; Plant production; Populus; Tissue quality; Transgenic aspen

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LIGNIN; NITROGEN;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; DECIDUOUS TREE; GROWTH; LEAF AREA; LIGNIN; MESOCOSM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL CARBON; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; SOIL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TREE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; LIGNIN; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 33846922099     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01965.x     Document Type: Article

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