Journal article
Cellulose Synthesis – Central Components and Their Evolutionary Relationships
ER Lampugnani, E Flores-Sandoval, QW Tan, M Mutwil, JL Bowman, S Persson
Trends in Plant Science | ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON | Published : 2019
Abstract
Cellulose is an essential morphogenic polysaccharide that is central to the stability of plant cell walls and provides an important raw material for a range of plant-based fiber and fuel industries. The past decade has seen a substantial rise in the identification of cellulose synthesis-related components and in our understanding of how these components function. Much of this research has been conducted in Arabidopsis thaliana (arabidopsis); however, it has become increasingly evident that many of the components and their functions are conserved. We provide here an overview of cellulose synthesis ‘core’ components. The evolution and coexpression patterns of these components provide important..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Drs Maria Flores, Stefanie Sprunck, and Thomas Dresselhaus for their gracious contribution of the gene expression profiles from Amborella. The Amborella data were generated as part of the European Research Area Network for Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (ERA-CAPS) EVOREPRO consortium. We thank Dr Uli Felzmann from Science IT, University of Melbourne, for assistance with high-performance computing infrastructure. S.P. was supported by the Australian Research Council (FT160100218, DP190101941). J.L.B. also acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council (DP160100892, DP170100049). M.M. thanks the Max Planck Society and Nanyang Technological University for funding. Figure 1 utilizes several elements modified from artwork generated by Servier which are available at https://smart.servier.com/and distributed under a CC BY 3.0 license.