Range of cell-wall alterations enhance saccharification in Brachypodium distachyon mutants

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

Volumn 111, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 14601-14606

  Marriott, Poppy E ^a   Sibout, Richard ^b,c   Lapierre, Catherine ^b,c   Fangel, Jonatan U ^d   Willats, William G T ^d   Hofte, Herman ^b,c   Gómez, Leonardo D ^a   McQueen Mason, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; CELLULOSE; FERULIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL ENZYME; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MANNOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; XYLOSE; BIOFUEL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MONOSACCHARIDE; PLANT PROTEIN;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BRACHYPODIUM; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME 2; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC SCREENING; HYDROLYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHARIFICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT STEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL WALL; CELLULOSE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIGNIN; MONOSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84949226621     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414020111     Document Type: Article

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