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Brittle culm15 encodes a membrane-associated chitinase-like protein required for cellulose biosynthesis in rice.
Plant physiology - 1 Aug 2012
Wu Bin, Zhang Baocai, Dai Yan, Zhang Lei, Shang-Guan Keke, Peng Yonggang, Zhou Yihua, Zhu Zhen
Abstract excerpt
Plant chitinases, a class of glycosyl hydrolases, participate in various aspects of normal plant growth and development, including cell wall metabolism and disease resistance. The rice (Oryza sativa) genome encodes 37 putative chitinases and chitinase-like proteins. However, none of them has been characterized at the genetic level. In this study, we report the isolation of a brittle culm mutant, bc15, and the...
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