Fructan synthesis, accumulation, and polymer traits. I. Festulolium chromosome substitution lines.

ABSTRACT: The fructans found as storage carbohydrates in temperate forage grasses have a physiological role in regrowth and stress tolerance. They are also important for the nutritional value of fresh and preserved livestock feeds, and are potentially useful as feedstocks for biorefining. Seasonal variation in fructan content and the capacity for de novo fructan synthesis have been examined in a Festulolium monosomic substitution line family to investigate variation in the polymers produced by grasses in the ryegrass-fescue complex. There were significant differences between ryegrass and fescue. Fescue had low polymeric fructan content and a high oligomer/polymer ratio; synthesis of polymers longer than degree of polymerization 6 (DP6) from oligomers was slow. However, extension of polymer length fr

SUBMITTER: Gallagher JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495318 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature