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A galacturonic acid-containing xyloglucan is involved in Arabidopsis root hair tip growth.
The Plant cell - 1 Nov 2012
Peña Maria J, Kong Yingzhen, York William S, O'Neill Malcolm A
Abstract excerpt
Root hairs provide a model system to study plant cell growth, yet little is known about the polysaccharide compositions of their walls or the role of these polysaccharides in wall expansion. We report that Arabidopsis thaliana root hair walls contain a previously unidentified xyloglucan that is composed of both neutral and galacturonic acid-containing subunits, the latter containing the β-D-galactosyluronic...
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