Profiling of phenylpropanoid monomers in developing xylem tissue of transgenic aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Journal of Wood Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-76

  Suzuki, Shiro ^a,c   Sakakibara, Norikazu ^b,e   Li, Laigeng ^a,d   Umezawa, Toshiaki ^b   Chiang, Vincent L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

4 Coumarate:CoA ligase; Aspen; Coniferaldehyde 5 hydroxylase; Metabolic profiling; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

WOOD;

4-COUMARATE: COA; 4-COUMARATE:COA LIGASE; ASPEN; CINNAMATES; CONIFERALDEHYDE 5-HYDROXYLASE; HYDROXYLASES; LIGASES; METABOLIC PROFILING; TRANSGENIC ASPEN; TRANSGENICS;

METABOLISM;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 76649086994     PISSN: 14350211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-009-1059-8     Document Type: Article

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