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| Author(s): |
Oliveira Junior, Clovis J. F.
[1]
;
Cavalari, Aline A.
[2]
;
Carpita, Nicholas C.
[3]
;
Buckeridge, Marcos S.
[4]
;
Braga, Marcia R.
[5]
Total Authors: 5
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| Affiliation: | [1] Inst Bot, Nucleo Pesquisa Plantas Ornamentais, BR-01061970 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Diadema, SP - Brazil
[3] Purdue Univ, Dept Plant Pathol, W Lafayette, IN 47907 - USA
[4] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Bot, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[5] Inst Bot, Nucleo Pesquisa Fisiol & Bioquim, BR-01061970 Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION; v. 24, n. 4, p. 713-722, AUG 2010. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 1 |
| Abstract | |
Rudgea jasminoides (Rubiaceae) is a tropical tree species native of the Atlantic Forest in the south of Brazil. Previous studies with leaf cell walls of R. jasminoides showed a different proportion of cross-linked glycans compared to what is usually reported for eudicots. However, due to the difficulties of working with whole plant organs, cell suspensions of R. jasminoides, consisting of predominantly undifferentiated cells with mainly primary cell walls, were used to examine cell walls and extracellular soluble polysaccharides (EP) released into the culture medium. Sugar composition and linkage analysis showed homogalacturonans, xylogalacturonans and arabinogalactans to be the predominant EP. In the cell wall, homogalacturonans and arabinogalactans are the major pectins, and xyloglucans and xylans are the major cross-linking glycans. The presence of xylogalacturonans in the R. jasminoides cell cultures seems to be related to the occurrence of a homogeneous cell suspension with loosely attached cells. Although all alkali extractions from the cell walls yielded amounts of xyloglucan that exceed those of the xylans, the latter was found in a proportion that is higher than what has been usually reported for primary cell walls of most eudicots. The xyloglucan from cell walls of cell suspension cultures of R. jasminoides has low fucosylation levels and high proportion of galactosyl residues, a branching pattern commonly found in storage cell-wall xyloglucans. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 98/05124-8 - Conservation and sustainable use of the plant biodiversity from the cerrado and Atlantic Forest: the storage of carbohydrates and their role on the adaptation and maintainance of plants in their natural environment |
| Grantee: | Marcos Silveira Buckeridge |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 05/04139-7 - Carbohydrates of tropical species as modulators of ecophysiological processes and as environmental stress response markers |
| Grantee: | Marcia Regina Braga |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |