Scientists with <i>Arabidopsis</i> Plants (IMAGE)

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Scientists with <i>Arabidopsis</i> Plants

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The team -- including Chang-Jun Liu (front), Yanzhai Song (rear), and Yunjun Zhao (rear right) -- used variations of Arabidopsis plants lacking genes for specific electron-shuttle proteins to confirm their hypothesis that one of these shuttle proteins, CB5D, is exclusively involved in the production of S-lignin building blocks.

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