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A role for CSLD3 during cell-wall synthesis in apical plasma membranes of tip-growing root-hair cells.
Nature cell biology - 17 Jul 2011
Park Sungjin, Szumlanski Amy L, Gu Fangwei, Guo Feng, Nielsen Erik
Abstract excerpt
In plants, cell shape is defined by the cell wall, and changes in cell shape and size are dictated by modification of existing cell walls and deposition of newly synthesized cell-wall material. In root hairs, expansion occurs by a process called tip growth, which is shared by root hairs, pollen tubes and fungal hyphae. We show that cellulose-like polysaccharides are present in root-hair tips, and de novo...
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