Claim · model-written summary
Overexpression raised fibre cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin contents.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimumt0 - Treatment
- Overexpression of the β-1,3-glucanase genee0
- Outcome
- cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin contentse0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“Overexpression of the β-1,3-glucanase gene resulted in higher cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin contents and a lower lignin content in the fibres.”
t0“flax”
Title
Wioleta Wojtasik; Anna Kulma; Lucyna Dymińska; et al. BMC Biotechnology 2013. doi:10.1186/1472-6750-13-10
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect β-1,3-glucanase overproduction did not affect fibre quantity.
- Intervention effect Overproduction did not significantly alter mechanical characteristics of retted fibres.
- Intervention effect Overexpression lowered fibre lignin content.
- Intervention effect Transgenic fibres had increased uronic acid in most fractions relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Transgenic fibres differed in cell wall sugar composition from controls.
- Intervention effect Transgenic flax fibres had lower callose content.
- Observation Cell wall phenolic contents changed across five fractions.
- Association Changes in cell wall phenolics were reflected in antioxidant potential.
- Mechanism Overproduction decreases callose, leaving excess glucose as substrate for other polysaccharides.
- Mechanism Excess monosaccharide redirects phenolics toward polysaccharides instead of lignin synthesis.
- Mechanism Improved biochemical composition is asserted to strengthen transgenic fibre mechanical properties.
- Recommendation Authors suggest transgenic flax fibres could serve biomedical applications based on increased antioxidant potential.