|
|
| Li,Xiaoyu; Chen,Wenjuan; Zhao,Yang; Xiang,Yan; Jiang,Haiyang; Zhu,Suwen; Cheng,Beijiu. |
| Lignin is a major cell wall component of vascular plants that provides mechanical strength and hydrophobicity to vascular vessels. However, the presence of lignin limits the effective use of crop straw in many agroindustrial processes. Here, we generated transgenic maize plants in which the expression of a lignin biosynthetic gene encoding CCoAOMT , a key enzyme involved in the lignin biosynthesis pathway was downregulated by RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi of CCoAOMT led to significantly downregulated expression of this gene in transgenic maize compared with WT plants. These transgenic plants exhibited a 22.4% decrease in Klason lignin content and a 23.3% increase in cellulose content compared with WT plants, which may reflect compensatory regulation of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: CCoAOMT; Lignin biosynthesis; Lignin and cellulose content; Maize. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572013000400013 |
| |
