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| Author(s): |
Marcela Mendes Salazar
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira;
Marcos Antonio Machado;
Marilia Gaspar;
Giancarlo Pasquali;
Fabio Marcio Squina
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| Advisor: | Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira |
| Abstract | |
Cellulose is the most abundant polymer in the world and it is present mainly in secondary cell walls of plant mature cells. The knowledge of molecular mechanisms involved in biosynthesis and regulation of this process is recent despite its great importance. The Eucalyptus is the most planted forest genus in the world, especially for being raw material for pulp production. Investments in research and development, especially in the molecular biology field, are being carried out by the forestry sector in order to increase pulp productivity. The data analyzed showed that gene expression of the species the tree species studied here (E. globulus, E. grandis e E. urophylla) differs in essential genes of cell wall compounds formation. Molecular data are consistent with differential data found here in relation to the composition of cell wall sugars. The results generated by the wall composition analysis by various techniques, including the recently developed "Glycome Profiling", showed a wide diversity of carbohydrate of cell wall differently distributed in the xylem of the the Eucalyptus species. These results are a breakthrough in understanding the cell wall composition of these species. The objective of this study was to correlate molecular data with data highthroughput Glycome Profiling to understand the composition and architecture of the cell walls. It is hoped that these data will contribute to the understanding of wood formation and how genes work to generate trees with such different characteristics (AU) | |