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Science 20 August 1993:
Vol. 261. no. 5124, pp. 1032 - 1035
DOI: 10.1126/science.261.5124.1032
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Altered Growth and Cell Walls in a Fucose-Deficient Mutant of Arabidopsis

Wolf-Dieter Reiter 1, Clint C. S. Chapple 1, and Chris R. Somerville 1

1 Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

A biochemical screening procedure was developed to identify mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana in which the polysaccharide composition of the cell wall was altered. Over 5000 ethyl methanesulfonate—mutagenized plants were analyzed by this method, leading to the identification of 38 mutant lines. One complementation group of mutants was completely deficient in l-fucose, a constituent of pectic and hemicellulosic polysaccharides. These mutant plants were dwarfed in growth habit, and their cell walls were considerably more fragile than normal.

Submitted on April 6, 1993
Accepted on June 9, 1993


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