Effects of PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE (PAL) knockdown on cell wall composition, biomass digestibility, and biotic and abiotic stress responses in Brachypodium

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4317-4335

  Cass, Cynthia L ^a,b   Peraldi, Antoine ^c   Dowd, Patrick F ^d   Mottiar, Yaseen ^b,e   Santoro, Nicholas ^f   Karlen, Steven D ^b   Bukhman, Yury V ^b   Foster, Cliff E ^f   Thrower, Nick ^f   Bruno, Laura C ^c   Moskvin, Oleg V ^b   Johnson, Eric T ^d   Willhoit, Megan E ^a,b   Phutane, Megha ^a,b   Ralph, John ^b,g   Mansfield, Shawn D ^b,e   Nicholson, Paul ^c   Sedbrook, John C ^a,b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Ferulic acid; Fusarium; Grass; Herbivory; Lignin; Phenylpropanoid; Saccharification; Tyrosine ammonia lyase; Ultraviolet light

Indexed keywords

PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE;

BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84942134488     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv269     Document Type: Article

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