Targeting Enhanced Digestibility: Prioritizing Low Pith Lignification to Complement low p-Coumaric Acid content as environmental stress intensity increase
Oscar Main, Ana López-Malvar, Florence Meunier, Sophie Guillaume, Marie‐Pierre Jacquemot, Paul-Louis Lopez-Marnet, Charlène Barotin, Anne Marmagne, Laurent Cézard, Sébastien Fargier, Sébastien Rey, Pierre Larsonneau, Nathalie Mangel, Anthony Uijttewaal, Matthieu Reymond, , Valérie Mechin
This study investigates how water and heat stress affect forage maize digestibility, finding that stress increases cell wall digestibility through reduced p-hydroxycinnamic acid and altered lignin distribution.
PLoS ONE · Dec 5, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology