Photodegradation alleviates the lignin bottleneck for carbon turnover in terrestrial ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2016-04-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1516157113PMID 27044070PMCID PMC4843460
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