Alterations in the Biosynthesis of Lignin in Transgenic Plants with Chimeric Genes for 4-Coumarate: Coenzyme A Ligase

Kajita, Shinya; Katayama, Yoshihiro; Omori, Satoshi

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029045

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Alterations in the Biosynthesis of Lignin in Transgenic Plants with Chimeric Genes for 4-Coumarate: Coenzyme A Ligase

Published in Plant and Cell Physiology • Oct 1, 1996

Authors:

Shinya Kajita

Yoshihiro Katayama

Satoshi Omori

Abstract

The introduction of chimeric sense and antisense gene constructs for 4-coumarate:coenzyme A ligase into tobacco plants caused the reduction of the 4CL activity in the transgenic plants. In the transgenic plants, the cell walls of the xylem tissue in stems were brown and the molecular structure of li...

Subject

Lignin

Biochemistry

Genetically modified crops

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