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. 2016 Apr;67(9):2538-40.
doi: 10.1093/jxb/erw144.

Answering a four decade-old question on epicuticular wax biosynthesis

Dylan K Kosma  1 , Owen Rowland  2
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Answering a four decade-old question on epicuticular wax biosynthesis

Dylan K Kosma et al. J Exp Bot. 2016 Apr.
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Keywords: Barley (Hordeum vulgare); Cer-cqu gene cluster; carboxylesterase; cytochrome P450; diketone synthase (DKS); epicuticular wax; esterified alkan-2-ols; hydroxy-β-diketones; lipase; type III polyketide synthase (PKS).; β-diketone aliphatics.

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(A) Wild type (WT) barley ‘Bonus’ and cer-c, cer-q, and cer-u mutants demonstrating the glossy phenotypes of the cer-c and cer-q mutants plus reduced wax on the cer-u mutant resulting from reductions in β-diketones and their derivatives. (B) Scanning electron micrograph image from Bonus. The long, hollow tubular structures can be attributed to large quantities of β-diketone aliphatics. (C) Transmission electron micrograph image of a pre-shadowed carbon replica from cer-c.36 revealing flat plates of wax in the absence of β-diketone tubes. Images are courtesy of and reproduced with permission from Nikolai M. Adamski and Penny von Wettstein-Knowles.
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