Claim · model-written summary
Total cellulose levels were reduced in antisense CesA1 and CesA3 plants, at the borderline of significance.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis
Arabidopsist0 - Treatment
- antisense CesA1 and CesA3e4
- Outcome
- total cellulose levelse4
- Direction
- reductionse4
- Qualifier
- borderline of significancee4
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Verbatim
t0“Arabidopsis”
e4“reductions in total cellulose levels in antisense CesA1 and CesA3 plants were at the borderline of significance”
Title
Functional Analysis of the Cellulose Synthase GenesCesA1, CesA2, and CesA3 in Arabidopsis
Joanne E. Burn; Charles H. Hocart; Rosemary J. Birch; et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002. doi:10.1104/pp.010931
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation The antisense phenotypes of CesA1 and CesA3 plants were closely similar.
- Association The antisense phenotypes correlated with reduced expression of the target gene.
- Mechanism Reductions in cell length rather than cell number underlay the shorter bolts and stamen filaments.
- Intervention effect Seedling roots were unaffected in both CesA1 and CesA3 antisense plants.
- Mechanism The authors conclude that CesA3, like CesA1, is required for deposition of primary wall cellulose.
- Intervention effect Overexpressing CesA3 in the rsw1 mutant did not complement the mutant defect in CesA1.
- Intervention effect The rate of stem elongation was reduced in antisense plants growing rapidly at 31 degrees C.