Dissection of Plant Cell Walls by High-Throughput Methods

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The structural complexity and heterogeneity of plant cell walls presents major obstacles to understanding the precise role of their constituent polysac-charides in plant growth and development. Further complexity is added as cell wall structures are modulated during plant development and in response to environmental cues. A variety of techniques have been developed to help advance our understanding of cell wall structures, and functions. Recent advances in immunocytochemistry, monosaccharide composition and linkage analysis, MALDI-TOF oligosaccharide fingerprinting and carbohydrate microarrays now provide cell wall biologists with powerful, robust and in some cases high-throughput tools for accurately determining cell wall structures. This chapter covers some of the latest developments in cell wall analysis, and also explores the prospects for effectively integrating different analytical platforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnnual Plant Reviews, Plant Polysaccharides : Biosynthesis and Bioengineering
EditorsPeter Ulvskov
Number of pages22
Volume41
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Publication date2010
Pages43-64
ISBN (Print)9781405181723
ISBN (Electronic)9781444391015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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    Research areas

  • capillary electrophoresis, Cell wall proteome, Chemical genetics, Coex-pression, Comprehensive microarray polymer profiling, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, MALDI-TOF, Oligosaccharide, OLIMP, PACE, Plant cell wall

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