Lignins: A Twenty-First Century Challenge

Biomass Recalcitrance: Deconstructing the Plant Cell Wall for Bioenergy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-305

  Davin, Laurence B ^a   Patten, Ann M ^a   Jourdes, Michaël ^a   Lewis, Norman G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 coumarate CoA ligases; COMTs and CCOMTs; Lignin molecular basis and role in plant adaptation to land; Lignin pathway evolution, deposition, and function in vascular anatomical development; Lignins twenty first century challenge; Modulation of monolignol pathway and peroxidase enzymatic steps; Phenylalanine formation; Pioneers of monolignol biosynthesis recent progress and metabolic flux analyses; Vascular plant diversification and lignification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886842746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305418.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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