Staffan Persson

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 6 and 7 control the flag leaf angle in rice by regulating secondary cell wall biosynthesis of lamina joints.

Guoqiang Huang, Heng Hu, Allison van de Meene, Jiao Zhang, Le Dong, Shuai Zheng, Fengli Zhang, Natalie S Betts, Wanqi Liang, Malcolm J Bennett, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant Cell

Flag leaf angle impacts the photosynthetic capacity of densely grown plants and is thus an important agronomic breeding trait for ..

GhMYB7 promotes secondary wall cellulose deposition in cotton fibres by regulating GhCesA gene expression through three distinct cis-elements.

Junfeng Huang, Feng Chen, Yanjun Guo, Xinli Gan, Mingming Yang, Wei Zeng, Staffan Persson, Juan Li, Wenliang Xu

Journal article  |  2021  |  New Phytol

Cotton fibre is the most important source for natural textiles. The secondary cell walls (SCWs) of mature cotton fibres contain th..

Not Just a Simple Sugar: Arabinose Metabolism and Function in Plants.

Alban Mariette, Hee Sung Kang, Joshua L Heazlewood, Staffan Persson, Berit Ebert, Edwin R Lampugnani

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant Cell Physiol

Growth, development, structure as well as dynamic adaptations and remodelling processes in plants are largely controlled by the pr..

A G protein-coupled receptor-like module regulates cellulose synthase secretion from the endomembrane system in Arabidopsis

Heather E McFarlane, Daniela Mutwil-Anderwald, Jana Verbancic, Kelsey L Picard, Timothy E Gookin, Anja Froehlich, David Chakravorty, Luisa M Trindade, Jose M Alonso, Sarah M Assmann, Staffan Persson

Journal article  |  2021  |  DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Cellulose is produced at the plasma membrane of plant cells by cellulose synthase (CESA) complexes (CSCs). CSCs are assembled in t..

A DUF1068 protein acts as a pectin biosynthesis scaffold and maintains Golgi morphology and cell adhesion in Arabidopsis

Rahul Lathe, Heather McFarlane, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Berit Ebert, Eduardo Antonio Ramírez-Rodríguez, Niels Noord, Rishikesh Bhalerao, Staffan Persson

Journal article  |  2021

ABSTRACT Adjacent plant cells are connected by specialized cell wall regions, called middle lamellae, which influence critical agr..

Current and future advances in fluorescence-based visualization of plant cell wall components and cell wall biosynthetic machineries

Brian T DeVree, Lisa M Steiner, Sylwia Glazowska, Felix Ruhnow, Klaus Herburger, Staffan Persson, Jozef Mravec

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS

Plant cell wall-derived biomass serves as a renewable source of energy and materials with increasing importance. The cell walls ar..

Rice transcription factor MADS32 regulates floral patterning through interactions with multiple floral homeotic genes

Yun Hu, Li Wang, Ru Jia, Wanqi Liang, Xuelian Zhang, Jie Xu, Xiaofei Chen, Dan Lu, Mingjiao Chen, Zhijing Luo, Jiayang Xie, Liming Cao, Ben Xu, Yu Yu, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang, Zheng Yuan

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Floral patterning is regulated by intricate networks of floral identity genes. The peculiar MADS32 subfamily genes, absent in eudi..

Structure of Arabidopsis CESA3 catalytic domain with its substrate UDP-glucose provides insight into the mechanism of cellulose synthesis

Zhu Qiao, Edwin R Lampugnani, Xin-Fu Yan, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Wuan Geok Saw, Patrick Hannah, Feng Qian, Jacob Calabria, Yansong Miao, Gerhard Gruber, Staffan Persson, Yong-Gui Gao

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellulose is synthesized by cellulose synthases (CESAs) from the glycosyltransferase GT-2 family. In plants, the CESAs form a six-..

Salt with a sweet tooth: galactan synthesis impacts salt tolerance in Arabidopsis

Liu Wang, Edwin R Lampugnani, Staffan Persson

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR PLANT

Brassinosteroids Influence Arabidopsis Hypocotyl Graviresponses Through Changes In Mannans And Cellulose.

Marc Somssich, Filip Vandenbussche, Alexander Ivakov, Norma Funke, Colin Ruprecht, Kris Vissenberg, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Staffan Persson, Dmitry Suslov

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant Cell Physiol

The force of gravity is a constant environmental factor. Plant shoots respond to gravity through negative gravitropism and gravity..