Arabidopsis seed coat mucilage is a specialized cell wall that can be used as a model for genetic analysis of plant cell wall structure and function

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Haughn, George W ^a   Western, Tamara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell wall; Cellulose; Genetic model; Mucilage; Pectin; Seed coat; Xyloglucan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874530550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00064     Document Type: Review

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