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A GDSL-motif Esterase/Lipase Affects Wax and Cutin Deposition and Controls Hull-Caryopsis Attachment in Barley.
Plant & cell physiology - 27 Jun 2024
Campoli Chiara, Eskan Mhmoud, McAllister Trisha, Liu Linsan, Shoesmith Jennifer, Prescott Alan, Ramsay Luke, Waugh Robbie, McKim Sarah M
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The cuticle covering aerial organs of land plants is well known to protect against desiccation. Cuticles also play diverse and specialized functions, including organ separation, depending on plant and tissue. Barley shows a distinctive cuticular wax bloom enriched in β-diketones on leaf sheaths, stem nodes and internodes and inflorescences. Barley also develops a sticky surface on the outer pericarp layer of its...
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