High spatial resolution imaging of the dynamics of cuticular lipid deposition during Arabidopsis flower development.

ABSTRACT: The extensive collection of glossy (gl) and eceriferum (cer) mutants of maize and Arabidopsis have proven invaluable in dissecting the branched metabolic pathways that support cuticular lipid deposition. This bifurcated pathway integrates a fatty acid elongation-decarbonylative branch and a fatty acid elongation-reductive branch, which collectively has the capacity to generate hundreds of cuticular lipid metabolites. In this study, a combined transgenic and biochemical strategy was implemented to explore and compare the physiological function of three homologous genes, Gl2, Gl2-like, and CER2, in the context of this branched pathway. These biochemical characterizations integrated new extraction chromatographic procedures with high spatial re

SUBMITTER: Alexander LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8082717 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature