Plant cell wall lignification and monolignol metabolism

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yin ^a   Chantreau, Maxime ^b,c   Sibout, Richard ^a   Hawkins, Simon ^b,c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Université de Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass; Lignan; Lignin; Metabolism; Monolignol

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897622377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00220     Document Type: Review

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