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Powerful regulatory systems and post-transcriptional gene silencing resist increases in cellulose content in cell walls of barley.
BMC plant biology - 21 Feb 2015
Tan Hwei-Ting, Shirley Neil J, Singh Rohan R, Henderson Marilyn, Dhugga Kanwarpal S, Mayo Gwenda M, Fincher Geoffrey B, Burton Rachel A
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BACKGROUND: The ability to increase cellulose content and improve the stem strength of cereals could have beneficial applications in stem lodging and producing crops with higher cellulose content for biofuel feedstocks. Here, such potential is explored in the commercially important crop barley through the manipulation of cellulose synthase genes (CesA). RESULTS: Barley plants transformed with primary cell wall...
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