Lyczakowski, Jan J. Bourdon, Matthieu Terrett, Oliver M. Helariutta, Ykä Wightman, Raymond Dupree, Paul
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Frontiers in Plant Science
The woody secondary cell walls of plants are the largest repository of renewable carbon biopolymers on the planet. These walls are made principally from cellulose and hemicelluloses and are impregnated with lignin. Despite their importance as the main load bearing structure for plant growth, as well as their industrial importance as both a material...
Lyczakowski, Jan J Bourdon, Matthieu Terrett, Oliver M Helariutta, Ykä Wightman, Raymond Dupree, Paul
The woody secondary cell walls of plants are the largest repository of renewable carbon biopolymers on the planet. These walls are made principally from cellulose and hemicelluloses and are impregnated with lignin. Despite their importance as the main load bearing structure for plant growth, as well as their industrial importance as both a material...
Ghahremani, Mina Tran, Hue Biglou, Sanaz G O'Gallagher, Bryden She, Yi-Min Plaxton, William C
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Plant, cell & environment
The purple acid phosphatase AtPAP26 plays a central role in Pi-scavenging by Pi-starved (-Pi) Arabidopsis. Mass spectrometry (MS) of AtPAP26-S1 and AtPAP26-S2 glycoforms secreted by -Pi suspension cells demonstrated that N-glycans at Asn365 and Asn422 were modified in AtPAP26-S2 to form high-mannose glycans. A 55-kDa protein that co-purified with A...
Bzducha-Wróbel, Anna Bryła, Marcin Gientka, Iwona Błażejak, Stanisław Janowicz, Monika
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Toxins
Mycotoxins are harmful contaminants of food and feed worldwide. Feed additives with the abilities to trap mycotoxins are considered substances which regulate toxin transfer from feed to tissue, reducing its absorption in animal digestive tract. Market analysis emphasizes growing interest of feed producers in mycotoxins binders obtained from yeast b...
Merced, Amelia Renzaglia, Karen S
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Annals of botany
In seed plants, stomata regulate CO2 acquisition and water relations via transpiration, while minimizing water loss. Walls of guard cells are strong yet flexible because they open and close the pore by changing shape over the substomatal cavity. Pectins are necessary for wall flexibility and proper stomata functioning. This study investigates the d...
Chaffey, Nigel Volkmann, Dieter Baluška, František
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Communicative & Integrative Biology
Dr Peter Barlow, who died in 2017, was one of the most respected botanists and biologists of the latter half of the 20th Century. His interests covered a wide range of plant biological topics, e.g. root growth and development, plant cytoskeleton, effects of gravity, plant intelligence, pattern formation, and evolution of eukaryotic cells. Here we c...
Rashidi, Behzad
An ever-increasing world population together with industrial development at an accelerated pace have push scientists to identify promising bio-resources to produce food, feed and fuel in the framework of carbon-neutral bio-economy. Amongst the bio-resources available, there has been a growing interest in the exploitation of microalgae biomass as an...
Stein, O. Secchi, F. German, M. A. Damari-Weissler, H. Aloni, R. Holbrook, N. M. Zwieniecky, M. A. Granot, D.
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Biologia Plantarum
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants have four fructokinase genes, SlFRK1-4. The SlFRK4 is expressed only in pollen whereas the other three are expressed in all plant parts. While SlFRK2 and SlFRK3 are involved in vascular tissue development and affects the shape, size, and cell-wall width of xylem vessels and xylem fibers, the role of SlFRK1 has n...
Kim, Sung Joon Chang, James Rimal, Binayak Yang, Hao Schaefer, Jacob
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Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes
Staphylococcus aureus biofilms pose a serious clinical threat as reservoirs for persistent infections. Despite this clinical significance, the composition and mechanism of formation of S. aureus biofilms are unknown. To address these problems, we used solid-state NMR to examine S. aureus (SA113), a strong biofilm-forming strain. We labeled whole ce...
Verbančič, Jana Lunn, John Edward Stitt, Mark Persson, Staffan
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Molecular plant
All plant cells are surrounded by a cell wall that determines the directionality of cell growth and protects the cell against its environment. Plant cell walls are comprised primarily of polysaccharides and represent the largest sink for photosynthetically fixed carbon, both for individual plants and in the terrestrial biosphere as a whole. Cell wa...
