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Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Oct 2004
Pighin Jamie A, Zheng Huanquan, Balakshin Laura J, Goodman Ian P, Western Tamara L, Jetter Reinhard, Kunst Ljerka, Samuels A Lacey
Abstract excerpt
A waxy protective cuticle coats all primary aerial plant tissues. Its synthesis requires extensive export of lipids from epidermal cells to the plant surface. Arabidopsis cer5 mutants had reduced stem cuticular wax loads and accumulated sheetlike inclusions in the cytoplasm of wax-secreting cells...
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