Establishment of the grass lignin metabolic network during monocot evolution
Plants produce a vast diversity of chemical compounds, yet the evolutionary history of the underlying complex metabolic networks remains poorly understood. Grasses (Poaceae family) possess a unique lignin metabolic network that can utilize both phenylalanine and tyrosine as precursors to synthesize canonical lignin as well as non-canonical acylated and tricin-conjugated lignin subunits. This…
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