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1.195) catalyzes the following reaction: cinnamyl alcohol + NADP += cinnamaldehyde + NADPH (but it can also act on coniferyl alcohol, sinapyl alcohol and 4-coumaryl alcohol) in the flavonoid, stilbene and lignin biosynthesis pathways [ 40 42 ] . According to the RIO analysis, F28P22_13 has no orthologs (see Figure 8for the corresponding tree and Figure 9for the RIO output).
Instead, the lignin contains more 5-hydroxyguaiacyl residues and therefore resembles the lignin composition of the bm3 mutant of maize [ 26 27 ] . Little is known about the lignin composition of the other bmr mutants.
Mutations in lignin biosynthesis may affect the effective concentration of such molecules, which could include dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol glucosides (DCGs).
The content and composition of the cell wall polymer lignin is also altered in the sorghum bmr mutants [ 21 ] . The bmr6 mutation was shown to result in an accumulation of coniferaldehyde [ 22 ] and sinapaldehyde [ 23 ] and seems to be most similar to the maize bm1 mutant [ 24 ] . The bmr12 and bmr18 mutants are allelic [ 25 ] . These mutants have lignin with lower amounts of syringyl residues.
The maize brown midrib mutants have a reduction in lignin content and an altered lignin subunit composition [ 13 ] . Lignin is a complex hydrophobic polymer made of substituted p -hydroxy-cinnamyl alcohol units that differ in their extent of hydroxylation and methoxylation (for recent reviews see [ 14 15 ] ). Lignin is important for the transport of water and plant rigidity and it serves as a defense mechanism against pests and pathogens.
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