Ultrastructure and mechanical properties of populus wood with reduced lignin content caused by transgenic down-regulation of cinnamate 4-hydroxylase

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2359-2365

  Bjurhager, Ingela ^a   Olsson, Anne Mari ^b   Zhang, Bo ^c   Gerber, Lorenz ^d   Kumar, Manoj ^d   Berglund, Lars A ^a   Burgert, Ingo ^c   Sundberg, Björn ^d   Salmén, Lennart ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INNVENTIA AB   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIRECTION; CINNAMATE 4-HYDROXYLASE; DOWN-REGULATION; GUAIACYL; KEY ENZYMES; KLASON LIGNIN; LIGNIN BIOSYNTHESIS; LIGNIN CONTENTS; LIGNIN MODIFICATIONS; LOWER DENSITY; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NATURAL VARIATION; PHENYLPROPANOID PATHWAYS; POPULUS; TENSILE TESTS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC APPROACHES; TRANSGENICS; WOOD DENSITY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ENZYMES; LIGNIN; PLANTS (BOTANY); STIFFNESS; TENSILE TESTING; WOOD;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CINNAMATE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSGENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOOD;

DOWN-REGULATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIGNIN; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYSACCHARIDES; POPULUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANS-CINNAMATE 4-MONOOXYGENASE; WATER; WOOD;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DENSITY; ENZYMES; LIGNINS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLANTS; STIFFNESS; TENSILE TESTS; WOOD;

POPULUS;

EID: 77956536493     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm100487e     Document Type: Article

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