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Altered lignification in mur1-1 a mutant deficient in GDP-L-fucose synthesis with reduced RG-II cross linking.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Voxeur Aline, Soubigou-Taconnat Ludivine, Legée Frédéric, Sakai Kaori, Antelme Sébastien, Durand-Tardif Mylène, Lapierre Catherine, Sibout Richard
Abstract excerpt
In the plant cell wall, boron links two pectic domain rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II) chains together to form a dimer and thus contributes to the reinforcement of cell adhesion. We studied the mur1-1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana which has lost the ability to form GDP-fucose in the shoots and show that the extent of RG-II cross-linking is reduced in the lignified stem of this mutant. Surprisingly, MUR1 mutation...
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