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Science 30 January 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5351, pp. 672 - 673
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5351.672
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Research Commentaries
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BOTANY:
Enhanced: A Recipe for Cellulose
Nicholas Carpita and Claudia Vergara
Cellulose, polymers of glucose organized into long fibrils, forms the bulk of the world's biomass. But the identity of the enzyme that makes this critical substance has been uncertain. In this week's issue, Arioli et al. report the first confirmation that the gene CelA is indeed a cellulose synthase, and Carpita and Vergara, in their research commentary, explain why this result has been so long in coming and what we now know about how cellulose is made.
The authors are in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1155, USA. E-mail: carpita{at}btny.purdue.edu
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Plant Physiology
134, 1146-1152
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- Topology of the Maize Mixed Linkage (1->3),(1->4)-{beta}-D-Glucan Synthase at the Golgi Membrane.
- B. R. Urbanowicz, C. Rayon, and N. C. Carpita (2004)
Plant Physiology
134, 758-768
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- Agrobacterium-Mediated Root Transformation Is Inhibited by Mutation of an Arabidopsis Cellulose Synthase-Like Gene.
- Y. Zhu, J. Nam, N. C. Carpita, A. G. Matthysse, and S. B. Gelvin (2003)
Plant Physiology
133, 1000-1010
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- Cellulose Biosynthesis in Plants: from Genes to Rosettes.
- M. S. Doblin, I. Kurek, D. Jacob-Wilk, and D. P. Delmer (2002)
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43, 1407-1420
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- The Experimental Herbicide CGA 325'615 Inhibits Synthesis of Crystalline Cellulose and Causes Accumulation of Non-Crystalline {beta}-1,4-Glucan Associated with CesA Protein.
- L. Peng, F. Xiang, E. Roberts, Y. Kawagoe, L. C. Greve, K. Kreuz, and D. P. Delmer (2001)
Plant Physiology
126, 981-992
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- Pollen Tubes of Nicotiana alata Express Two Genes from Different {beta}-Glucan Synthase Families.
- M. S. Doblin, L. De Melis, E. Newbigin, A. Bacic, and S. M. Read (2001)
Plant Physiology
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- Three-Dimensional Structures of UDP-Sugar Glycosyltransferases Illuminate the Biosynthesis of Plant Polysaccharides.
- S. J. Charnock, B. Henrissat, and G. J. Davies (2001)
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- KOJAK encodes a cellulose synthase-like protein required for root hair cell morphogenesis in Arabidopsis.
- B. Favery, E. Ryan, J. Foreman, P. Linstead, K. Boudonck, M. Steer, P. Shaw, and L. Dolan (2001)
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- Multiple Cellulose Synthase Catalytic Subunits Are Required for Cellulose Synthesis in Arabidopsis.
- N. G. Taylor, S. Laurie, and S. R. Turner (2000)
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- The Mechanism of Synthesis of a Mixed-Linkage (1right-arrow3),(1right-arrow4)beta -D-Glucan in Maize. Evidence for Multiple Sites of Glucosyl Transfer in the Synthase Complex.
- M. S. Buckeridge, C. E. Vergara, and N. C. Carpita (1999)
Plant Physiology
120, 1105-1116
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- The irregular xylem3 Locus of Arabidopsis Encodes a Cellulose Synthase Required for Secondary Cell Wall Synthesis.
- N. G. Taylor, W.-R. Scheible, S. Cutler, C. R. Somerville, and S. R. Turner (1999)
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