Claim · model-written summary
Boron deficiency decreased cell wall mechanical strength.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis
Arabidopsist0 - Treatment
- B deficiencye0
- Outcome
- mechanical strength of the cell walle0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“B deficiency disturbed the arrangement of cellulose, enlarged the gap between cellulose microfibrils, and decreased the mechanical strength of the cell wall”
t0“Arabidopsis”
Title
Cheng Zhang; Mingliang He; Zhexuan Jiang; et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022. doi:10.3390/ijms23031250
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Boron deficiency induced TCH4 expression.
- Observation TCH4 overexpression lines were more sensitive to boron deficiency than wild-type Col-0.
- Observation TCH4 knockout lines were more resistant to low boron stress than wild-type Col-0.
- Association TCH4 upregulation altered the ratio of chelator-soluble to alkali-soluble pectin under boron deficiency.
- Association TCH4 upregulation decreased pectin methylesterification under boron deficiency.
- Intervention effect Boron deficiency disturbed cellulose arrangement.
- Intervention effect Boron deficiency enlarged the gap between cellulose microfibrils.
- Observation Boron deficiency produced a thickened, deformed triangular cell wall region.
- Observation Cell wall symptoms under boron deficiency were more profound in TCH4 overexpression lines.
- Observation Under boron deficiency, TCH4 overexpression lines had increased O2− content compared with Col-0.
- Observation Under boron deficiency, TCH4 overexpression lines had increased MDA content compared with Col-0.
- Mechanism The authors identify boron deficiency induced TCH4 as a regulator of cell wall homeostasis and plant growth.