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Composition of alkyl esters in the cuticular wax on inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis thaliana cer mutants.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2007
Lai Christine, Kunst Ljerka, Jetter Reinhard
Abstract excerpt
Wax biosynthetic pathways proceed via the elongation of 16:0 acyl-CoA to very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFA), and by further modifications that include reduction to primary alcohols and formation of alkyl esters. We have analyzed the alkyl esters in the stem wax of ten cer mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana together with the corresponding wild types. Alkyl esters with chain lengths between C(38) and C(52) were...
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