Understanding the relationship between cotton fiber properties and non-cellulosic cell wall polysaccharides.

ABSTRACT: A detailed knowledge of cell wall heterogeneity and complexity is crucial for understanding plant growth and development. One key challenge is to establish links between polysaccharide-rich cell walls and their phenotypic characteristics. It is of particular interest for some plant material, like cotton fibers, which are of both biological and industrial importance. To this end, we attempted to study cotton fiber characteristics together with glycan arrays using regression based approaches. Taking advantage of the comprehensive microarray polymer profiling technique (CoMPP), 32 cotton lines from different cotton species were studied. The glycan array was generated by sequential extraction of cell wall polysaccharides from mature cotton fibers and screening samples against eleven extensivel

SUBMITTER: Rajasundaram D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4226482 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature