Maize Tricin-Oligolignol Metabolites and Their Implications for Monocot Lignification1[OPEN]

Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Wisconsin Energy Institute (W.L., F.L., J.Ra.), Department of Biological System Engineering (W.L., J.Ra.), and Department of Biochemistry (F.L., J.Ra.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53726; Department of Plant Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, B–9052 Ghent, Belgium (K.M., W.Vo., W.B.); Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B–9052 Ghent, Belgium (K.M., W.Vo., W.B.); State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, 510641 Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China (F.L.); Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 41012 Seville, Spain (J.Re., J.C.d.R.); and Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (W.Ve.)