Lignins
Biosynthesis, Biodegradation and Bioengineering
Description
Key Features
- Gives a special emphasis to the bioengineering of these enigmatic polymers, lignins
- Divided in nine chapters
- Contains up-to-date reviews by expert groups in their field
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Field Trials with Lignin-Modified Transgenic Trees
Gilles Pilate, Annabelle Dejardin, Jean-Charles Leple
2. Lignification and Lignin Manipulations in Conifers
Armin Wagner, Donaldson L, Ralph J
3. Molecular Biology of Lignification in Grasses
Richard Sibout, Michael Harrington, Marek Mutwil, Yves Barrière
4. Cytochrome P450s in Lignin Biosynthesis
Juergen Ehlting, Annette Alber
5. What Role for Plant Laccases in Lignin Polymerization?
Lise Jouanin, Serge Berthet, Johanne Thevenin, Davy Baratiny, Nathalie Demont-Caulet, Isabelle Debeaujon, Przemyslaw Bidzinski, Jean-Charles Leple, Rudy Huis, Simon Hawkins, Leonardo-D Gomez, Catherine Lapierre
6. Transcriptional Regulation of the Lignin Biosynthetic Pathway Revisited: New Players and Insights
Jacqueline Grima Pettenati, Marçal Soler, Eduardo Leal O. Camargo, Hua Wang
7. Lignins and Abiotic Stresses
Mireille Cabané, Dany Afif, Simon Hawkins
8. Fungal Strategies for Lignin Degradation
Jean Claude Sigoillot, Jean-Guy Berrin, Mathieu Bey, Laurence Lesage-Meessen, Anthony Levasseur, Anne Lomascolo, Eric Record, Eva Uzan-Boukhris
9. Evolutionary History of Lignins
Federico Pomar, Alfonso Ros Barceló, Esther Novo-Uzal, Laura V Gómez Ros, Jose M Espiñeira
Product details
- No. of pages: 440
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2012
- Published: June 25, 2012
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780123914361
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780124160231