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Alteration of oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils by mutation of a katanin-like microtubule-severing protein.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2002
Burk David H, Ye Zheng-Hua
Abstract excerpt
It has long been hypothesized that cortical microtubules (MTs) control the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition, but no mutants with alterations of MT orientation have been shown to affect this process. We have shown previously that in Arabidopsis, the fra2 mutation causes aberrant cortical MT orientation and reduced cell elongation, and the gene responsible for the fra2 mutation encodes a katanin-like...
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