Profiling of oligolignols reveals monolignol coupling conditions in lignifying poplar xylem

Plant Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 3537-3549

  Morreel, Kris ^a   Ralph, John ^b,c   Kim, Hoon ^b,c   Lu, Fachuang ^b,c   Goeminne, Geert ^a   Ralph, Sally ^d   Messens, Eric ^a   Boerjan, Wout ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COPOLYMERS; DIMERS; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; TISSUE;

CHEMICAL COUPLING; LIGNIN POLYMERIZATION; OLIGOLINNOLS; TRIMERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS; PLANT TISSUES; PLANTS; POLYMERIZATION; XYLEM;

POPULUS;

LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

LIGNIN; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS;

EID: 8344253178     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.049304     Document Type: Article

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