In principle, plants with low lignin content are easier to pre-treat and to hydrolyze by cellulases compared with plants with high lignin content [ 2, 6, 9, 28].
Some of the principles known to rule plant-to-plant interactions in crowded populations may apply to the interactions between growth units in plants.
The first volume of Principles of Plant Biochemistry, a textbook on the chemical compounds of plants and plant physiology, was published in 1931.
Plant synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines engineering principles with plant biology toward the design and production of new devices.
The pithiness of the content was guided by the ASPB's "12 Principles of Plant Biology," which the ASPB promotes for the teaching of plant biology at K 12 levels (see http://my.aspb.org/?page=EF_Principles).
Motamedi et al. [ 37] report that solubility of active principles in plant materials varies according to extraction solvent used, which may relate to differences in antimicrobial effect of plant extracts [ 38].
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