Cotton fiber: a powerful single-cell model for cell wall and cellulose research
| Autor: | Candace Hope Haigler, Lissete eBetancur, Michael Roy Stiff, John Richard Tuttle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
food.ingredient Materials science Pectin virus-induced gene silencing elongation Context (language use) Plant Science lcsh:Plant culture 01 natural sciences Cell wall Mini Review Article 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound xyloglucan food Botany lcsh:SB1-1110 Cotton Fiber Fiber Cellulose transition stage 030304 developmental biology pectin Gossypium 0303 health sciences Xyloglucan chemistry Fiber cell Biophysics Elongation 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol 3 (2012) Frontiers in plant science |
| ISSN: | 1664-462X |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpls.2012.00104 |
| Popis: | Cotton fibers are single-celled extensions of the seed epidermis. They can be isolated in pure form as they undergo staged differentiation including primary cell wall synthesis during elongation and nearly pure cellulose synthesis during secondary wall thickening. This combination of features supports clear interpretation of data about cell walls and cellulose synthesis in the context of high throughput modern experimental technologies. Prior contributions of cotton fiber to building fundamental knowledge about cell walls will be summarized and the dynamic changes in cell wall polymers throughout cotton fiber differentiation will be described. Recent successes in using stable cotton transformation to alter cotton fiber cell wall properties as well as cotton fiber quality will be discussed. Futurec prospects to perform experiments more rapidly through altering cotton fiberwall properties via virus-induced gene silencing will be evaluated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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