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Fig. 1 | Biotechnology for Biofuels

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From: Suppression of CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE increases the level of monolignol ferulates incorporated into maize lignins

Fig. 1

An abbreviated version of the lignin biosynthetic pathway highlighting the effects of the ccr1 mutation. The mutated CCR1 gene results in reduced CCR1 transcript, and presumably less CCR1 enzyme, and a pool of feruloyl-CoA (FA reservoir). The conjugates formed between the monolignols and feruloyl-CoA by ZmFMT are incorporated into the lignin polymer, generating a zip-lignin in which the ester bonds in the backbone are readily cleaved by base

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