Improvement of in-rumen digestibility of alfalfa forage by genetic manipulation of lignin O-methyltransferases
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Transgenic Research
- Vol. 10 (5) , 457-464
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012278106147
Abstract
Lignin inhibits forage digestibility by ruminant animals, and lignin levels and the proportion of dimethylated syringyl (S) lignin monomers increase with progressive maturity in stems of forage...Keywords
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