Journal article
The Role of Brachypodium distachyon Wall-Associated Kinases (WAKs) in Cell Expansion and Stress Responses
Xingwen Wu, Antony Bacic, Kim L Johnson, John Humphries
Cells | MDPI | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.3390/cells9112478
Abstract
The plant cell wall plays a critical role in signaling responses to environmental and developmental cues, acting as both the sensing interface and regulator of plant cell integrity. Wall-associated kinases (WAKs) are plant receptor-like kinases located at the wall-plasma membrane-cytoplasmic interface and implicated in cell wall integrity sensing. WAKs in Arabidopsis thaliana have been shown to bind pectins in different forms under various conditions, such as oligogalacturonides (OG)s in stress response, and native pectin during cell expansion. The mechanism(s) WAKs use for sensing in grasses, which contain relatively low amounts of pectin, remains unclear. WAK genes from the model monocot p..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Plant Cell Walls Grant
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Funding Acknowledgements
XW acknowledges the support of scholarships (stipend & fee remission) from The University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Plant Cell Walls Grant (CE1101007; AB, JH and KJ), the La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food, La Trobe University (AB and KJ) and the Sino-Australia Plant CellWall Research Centre and 111 project provided by Zhejiang A&F University (AB and KJ). AB and KJ were supported by the La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food and KJ by La Trobe Research Focus Area grant 2000004372.