Advances in the genetic dissection of plant cell walls: Tools and resources available in Miscanthus

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Slavov, Gancho ^a   Allison, Gordon ^a   Bosch, Maurice ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Chemotyping; Functional genomics; Genetic engineering; GWAS; Miscanthus; QTL; Recalcitrance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895066699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00217     Document Type: Review

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