Engineering monolignol p-coumarate conjugates into poplar and arabidopsis lignins

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2992-3001

  Smith, Rebecca A ^a,b   Gonzales Vigil, Eliana ^a,c   Karlen, Steven D ^a,b   Park, Ji Young ^c   Lu, Fachuang ^a,b   Wilkerson, Curtis G ^a   Samuels, Lacey ^c   Ralph, John ^a,b   Mansfield, Shawn D ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-COUMARIC ACID; ACYLTRANSFERASE; COUMARIC ACID; LIGNIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORYZA; POPULUS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COUMARIC ACIDS; LIGNIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; ORYZA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84949599363     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00815     Document Type: Article

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