Syringyl lignin production in conifers: Proof of concept in a Pine tracheary element system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 6218-6223

  Wagner, Armin ^a   Tobimatsu, Yuki ^b,c,d   Phillips, Lorelle ^a   Flint, Heather ^a   Geddes, Barbara ^a   Lu, Fachuang ^b,c   Ralph, John ^b,c  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Lignification; Metabolic engineering; Pulping; Softwood

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CAFFEIC ACID; CAFFEIC ACID O METHYLTRANSFERASE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FERULATE 5 HYDROXYLASE; LIGNIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MONOMER; POLYMER; SINAPYL ALCOHOL; SYRINGOL; SYRINGYL LIGNIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; BIOFUEL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALLUS CULTURE; CELL WALL; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETERONUCLEAR MULTIPLE BOND CORRELATION; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; LIGNIFICATION; LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PINE; PINUS RADIATA; PLANT STRUCTURES; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PYROLYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRACHEARY ELEMENT SYSTEM; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA; PINUS RADIATA;

ALCOHOLS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CELL WALL; CONIFEROPHYTA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGNIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PINUS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84929206934     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411926112     Document Type: Article

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