Engineering traditional monolignols out of lignin by concomitant up-regulation of F5H1 and down-regulation of COMT in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-897

  Vanholme, Ruben ^a,b   Ralph, John ^c   Akiyama, Takuya ^c   Lu, Fachuang ^c   Pazo, Jorge Rencoret ^c   Kim, Hoon ^c   Christensen, Jorgen Holst ^a,b   Van Reusel, Brecht ^a,b   Storme, Véronique ^a,b   De Rycke, Riet ^a,b   Rohde, Antje ^a,b   Morreel, Kris ^a,b   Boerjan, Wout ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

benzodioxane; cell wall; irx; monolignol; NMR; phenolic profiling

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DETOXIFICATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLAVONOIDS; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGNIN; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTORATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BENZODIOXANE; BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAYS; CAFFEIC ACID O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CELL WALLS; CINNAMATE 4-HYDROXYLASE; MASS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; MONOLIGNOL; PHENOLIC PROFILING;

CELL ENGINEERING;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 78650132635     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04353.x     Document Type: Article

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