The effects on lignin structure of overexpression of ferulate 5-hydroxylase in hybrid poplar1[W]

Plant Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 621-635

  Stewart, Jaclyn J ^a   Akiyama, Takuya ^b   Chapple, Clint ^c   Ralph, John ^b   Mansfield, Shawn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 66649131944     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.137059     Document Type: Article

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