Modern mannan: a hemicellulose's journey

C Voiniciuc - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hemicellulosic polysaccharides built of β‐1, 4‐linked mannose units have been found
throughout the plant kingdom and have numerous industrial applications. Here, I review …

Sphingolipid metabolism, transport, and functions in plants: Recent progress and future perspectives

NJ Liu, LP Hou, JJ Bao, LJ Wang, XY Chen - Plant communications, 2021 - cell.com
Sphingolipids, which comprise membrane systems together with other lipids, are ubiquitous
in cellular organisms. They show a high degree of diversity across plant species and vary in …

Diversity in sphingolipid metabolism across land plants

TM Haslam, I Feussner - Journal of experimental botany, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sphingolipids are essential metabolites found in all plant species. They are required for
plasma membrane integrity, tolerance of and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, and …

The ascorbate biosynthesis pathway in plants is known, but there is a way to go with understanding control and functions

N Smirnoff, GL Wheeler - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ascorbate (vitamin C) is one of the most abundant primary metabolites in plants. Its complex
chemistry enables it to function as an antioxidant, as a free radical scavenger, and as a …

The ectomycorrhizal fungus Scleroderma bovista improves growth of hazelnut seedlings and plays a role in auxin signaling and transport

Y Cheng, S Sun, H Lou, Y Dong, H He, Q Mei… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Scleroderma bovista can form symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi with hazel roots.
The mechanism through which S. bovista promotes hazelnut growth remains unclear …

Sphingolipids in plant immunity

HY Zeng, N Yao - Phytopathology Research, 2022 - Springer
Sphingolipids (lipids with a sphingoid base backbone) are important components of
eukaryotic membrane systems and key signaling molecules that are essential for controlling …

Diverse INOSITOL PHOSPHORYLCERAMIDE SYNTHASE mutant alleles of Physcomitrium patens offer new insight into complex sphingolipid metabolism

TM Haslam, C Herrfurth, I Feussner - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sphingolipids are widespread, abundant, and essential lipids in plants and in other
eukaryotes. Glycosyl inositol phosphorylceramides (GIPCs) are the most abundant class of …

Putative rhamnogalacturonan-II glycosyltransferase identified through callus gene editing which bypasses embryo lethality

Y Zhang, D Sharma, Y Liang, N Downs… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II) is a structurally complex and conserved domain of
the pectin present in the primary cell walls of vascular plants. Borate cross-linking of RG-II is …

Viable mutants of essential genes in Physcomitrium patens as tools for studying primary metabolic processes

TM Haslam, C Herrfurth, I Feussner - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Sphingolipids are essential components of plant cells, which have been notoriously difficult
to study in part due to pleiotropic or lethal knock-out mutant phenotypes. By relying on …

A putative rhamnogalacturonan-II CMP-β-Kdo transferase identified using CRISPR/Cas9 gene edited callus to circumvent embryo lethality

Y Zhang, D Sharma, Y Liang, N Downs, F Dolman… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The pectin rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II) is an extraordinarily complex plant carbohydrate,
crucial for developmental processes. RG-II contains over 20 distinct glycosidic linkages …