Meaning of coniferyl alcohol | Babel Free

Definitions

A monolignol, 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)-2-methoxyphenol, found in many plants.

uncountable

Examples

“Coniferin is converted into grape-sugar and coniferyl alcohol under the influence of emulsine.”

“Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.”

“Given the presumed role(s) of monolignol glucosides in lignification, it was of considerable interest to next establish whether UDPG:coniferyl alcohol (CA) glucosyl-transferases exhibited any substrate stereoselectivity toward either E- or Z-monolignols.”

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