The lignin biosynthetic pathway has been studied for more than a century but has
undergone major revisions over the past decade. Significant progress has been made in …

Virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a recently developed gene transcript suppression
technique for characterizing the function of plant genes. The approach involves cloning a …

The hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the phenylpropanoid compounds is introduced at the
level of coumarate shikimate/quinate esters, whose synthesis implicates an acyltransferase …

2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a
Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and …

One of the major technical hurdles impeding the advance of plant genetic engineering and
biotechnology is the fact that the expression or manipulation of multiple genes in plants is …

Lignin is a major component of wood, the most widely used raw material for the production
of pulp and paper. Although the biochemistry and molecular biology underpinning lignin …

The composition and structure of lignified walls has a dramatic impact on the technological
value of raw materials. The chemical flexibility of the secondary cell wall has been …

In their environment, plants interact with a multitude of living organisms and have to cope
with a large variety of aggressions of biotic or abiotic origin. To survive, plants have …

Over the past few years, there has been a growing realization that metabolic pathways must
be studied in the context of the whole cell rather than at the single pathway level, and that …

Cinnamoyl CoA reductase (CCR) and cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) catalyze the
last steps of monolignol biosynthesis. In Arabidopsis, one CCR gene (CCR1, At1g15950) …