GbEXPATR, a species-specific expansin, enhances cotton fibre elongation through cell wall restructuring

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 951-963

  Li, Yang ^a   Tu, Lili ^a   Pettolino, Filomena A ^b   Ji, Shengmei ^a   Hao, Juan ^a   Yuan, Daojun ^a   Deng, Fenglin ^a   Tan, Jiafu ^a   Hu, Haiyan ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Llewellyn, Danny J ^b   Zhang, Xianlong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell elongation; Cotton fibre; Gossypium barbadense (cotton); Secondary cell wall; Truncated expansin

Indexed keywords

EXPANSIN PROTEIN, PLANT; PLANT PROTEIN;

CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; COTTON; CROSS BREEDING; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; COTTON FIBER; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOWN-REGULATION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN DOMAINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84958892994     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12450     Document Type: Article

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