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Mitochondrial beta-cyanoalanine synthase is essential for root hair formation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The Plant cell - 1 Oct 2010
García Irene, Castellano José María, Vioque Blanca, Solano Roberto, Gotor Cecilia, Romero Luis C
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Cyanide is stoichiometrically produced as a coproduct of the ethylene biosynthesis pathway and is detoxified by β-cyanoalanine synthase enzymes. The molecular and phenotypical analysis of T-DNA insertion mutants of the mitochondrial β-cyanoalanine synthase CYS-C1 suggests that discrete accumulation of cyanide is not toxic for the plant and does not alter mitochondrial respiration rates but does act as a strong...
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