Claim · model-written summary
All five fern species had abundant C36-C54 alkyl esters with species-specific homologue distributions.
- Taxon
- Pteridium aquilinum, Cryptogramma crispa, Polypodium glycyrrhiza, Polystichum munitum and Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Polystichum munitum
Pteridium aquilinumGymnocarpium dryopteris
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Cryptogramma crispat0 - Outcome
- large amounts of C36-C54 alkyl esterse0
- Qualifier
- species-specific homologue distributionse0
Not reportedOrgan / stage
Verbatim
e0“The wax mixtures from all five fern species contained large amounts of C36-C54 alkyl esters, with species-specific homologue distributions.”
t0“Pteridium aquilinum, Cryptogramma crispa, Polypodium glycyrrhiza, Polystichum munitum and Gymnocarpium dryopteris”
Title
Yanjun Guo; Jia Jun Li; Lucas Busta; et al. Annals of Botany 2018. doi:10.1093/aob/mcy078
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Minor fatty acids, primary alcohols, aldehydes and/or alkanes had chain-length profiles that varied widely between species.
- Observation G. dryopteris frond wax contained C27-C33 secondary alcohols and C27-C35 ketones with functional groups exclusively on even-numbered carbons.
- Observation Frond wax coverage was 3.9 μg cm-2 on P. glycyrrhiza.
- Observation Frond wax coverage was 16.9 μg cm-2 on G. dryopteris.
- Mechanism The five ferns appear to have the full complement of wax biosynthesis enzymes described for arabidopsis.
- Mechanism Each fern species is predicted to have multiple ester synthase enzymes with unique substrate specificities.