When I was ten, I nearly set fire to my family’s house. I, like many kids, needed to test grownups’ claims, and one that struck me as particularly dubious was that gasoline was flammable since it was a liquid. Every liquid I’d ever seen meet a flame—water, soda, juice, pee—...
five corresponded to known lignin biosynthetic genes (CCR, COMT, CAD2, CCoAOMT, 4 CL), two genes had a possible indirect effect on lignification (EgROP1 and SAH), 3 presented similarities with known function proteins (subtilisin-like proteinase, xyloglucan endo glycosylase, 60 S Ribosomal protei...