Structural characterization of lignin in wild-type versus COMT down-regulated switchgrass

Frontiers in Energy Research

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Samuel, Reichel ^a,b   Pu, Yunqiao ^b,c   Jiang, Nan ^a,b   Fu, Chunxiang ^d   Wang, Zeng Yu ^b,d   Ragauskas, Arthur ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BioEnergy Science Center   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT transgenic; Lignin; Molecular weights; NMR; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009166928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2013.00014     Document Type: Article

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