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Arabidopsis irregular xylem8 and irregular xylem9: implications for the complexity of glucuronoxylan biosynthesis.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2007
Peña Maria J, Zhong Ruiqin, Zhou Gong-Ke, Richardson Elizabeth A, O'Neill Malcolm A, Darvill Alan G, York William S, Ye Zheng-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Mutations of Arabidopsis thaliana IRREGULAR XYLEM8 (IRX8) and IRX9 were previously shown to cause a collapsed xylem phenotype and decreases in xylose and cellulose in cell walls. In this study, we characterized IRX8 and IRX9 and performed chemical and structural analyses of glucuronoxylan (GX) from irx8 and irx9 plants. IRX8 and IRX9 are expressed specifically in cells undergoing secondary wall thickening, and...
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