Asparagus spears as a model to study heteroxylan biosynthesis during secondary wall development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Song, Lili ^a,b   Zeng, Wei ^b   Wu, Aimin ^c   Picard, Kelsey ^b   Lampugnani, Edwin R ^b   Cheetamun, Roshan ^b   Beahan, Cherie ^b   Cassin, Andrew ^b   Lonsdale, Andrew ^b   Doblin, Monika S ^b   Bacic, Antony ^b,d  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; PLANT RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN; XYLAN XYLOSYLTRANSFERASE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UDP XYLOSE-PROTEIN XYLOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AOIRX10 GENE; AOIRX14 A GENE; AOIRX14 B GENE; AOIRX9 GENE; AOIRX9 L GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRASS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGNIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT STEM; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLD; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HORDEUM; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROSOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS; POACEAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARAGUS PLANT; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL WALL; COLD TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; LIGNIN; MICROSOMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TIME FACTORS; XYLANS;

EID: 84929500743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123878     Document Type: Article

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