Starting to gel: how Arabidopsis seed coat epidermal cells produce specialized secondary cell walls

C Voiniciuc, B Yang, MHW Schmidt, M Günl… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
For more than a decade, the Arabidopsis seed coat epidermis (SCE) has been used as a
model system to study the synthesis, secretion and modification of cell wall polysaccharides …

A coevolved EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 module mediates cell death signaling by TIR-domain immune receptors

D Lapin, V Kovacova, X Sun, JA Dongus… - The Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plant nucleotide binding/leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors are activated by
pathogen effectors to trigger host defenses and cell death. Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain …

BREEDIT: a multiplex genome editing strategy to improve complex quantitative traits in maize

CD Lorenzo, K Debray, D Herwegh, W Develtere… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ensuring food security for an ever-growing global population while adapting to climate
change is the main challenge for agriculture in the 21st century. Although new technologies …

The cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP96A15 is the midchain alkane hydroxylase responsible for formation of secondary alcohols and ketones in stem cuticular wax of …

S Greer, M Wen, D Bird, X Wu, L Samuels… - Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Most aerial surfaces of plants are covered by cuticular wax that is synthesized in epidermal
cells. The wax mixture on the inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is …

Arbuscular mycorrhiza–specific signaling in rice transcends the common symbiosis signaling pathway

C Gutjahr, M Banba, V Croset, K An, A Miyao… - The Plant …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge about signaling in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses is currently
restricted to the common symbiosis (SYM) signaling pathway discovered in legumes. This …

Phylogenetic and comparative gene expression analysis of barley (Hordeum vulgare) WRKY transcription factor family reveals putatively retained functions between …

E Mangelsen, J Kilian, KW Berendzen… - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
Background WRKY proteins belong to the WRKY-GCM1 superfamily of zinc finger
transcription factors that have been subject to a large plant-specific diversification. For the …

A phenol/chloroform-free method to extract nucleic acids from recalcitrant, woody tropical species for gene expression and sequencing

FF Barbier, TG Chabikwa, MU Ahsan, SE Cook… - Plant methods, 2019 - Springer
Background Woody tropical plants contain high levels of complex organic compounds that
inhibit the chemical procedures needed to extract RNA or DNA, thus compromising …

MUCILAGE-RELATED10 produces galactoglucomannan that maintains pectin and cellulose architecture in Arabidopsis seed mucilage

C Voiniciuc, MHW Schmidt, A Berger, B Yang… - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Plants invest a lot of their resources into the production of an extracellular matrix built of
polysaccharides. While the composition of the cell wall is relatively well characterized, the …

Highly branched xylan made by IRREGULAR XYLEM14 and MUCILAGE-RELATED21 links mucilage to Arabidopsis seeds

C Voiniciuc, M Günl, MHW Schmidt, B Usadel - Plant physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
All cells of terrestrial plants are fortified by walls composed of crystalline cellulose
microfibrils and a variety of matrix polymers. Xylans are the second most abundant type of …

Mutations of the AtYAK1 kinase suppress TOR deficiency in Arabidopsis

C Forzani, GT Duarte, J Van Leene, G Clément… - Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
The target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is a conserved energy sensor that regulates growth in
response to environmental cues. However, little is known about the TOR signaling pathway …