Ultrastructure and chemistry of soluble and polymeric lipids in cell walls from seed coats and fibres of Gossypium species |
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Authors: | U Ryser P J Holloway |
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Institution: | (1) Institut für Botanische Biologie und Phytochemie der Universität Freiburg i. Ü., Albert-Gockel-Strasse 3, CH-1700 Freiburg, Switzerland;(2) Long Ashton Research Station, University of Bristol, BS18 9AF Bristol, UK |
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Abstract: | Electron-microscopic examination in conjunction with extraction procedures and chemical analysis have confirmed that a suberin-like lipid biopolymer is located within the concentric polylamellate layers found in the secondary cell walls of green cotton fibres (Gossypium hirsutum cv. green lint). A polymer of similar ultrastructure and chemical constitution also occurs mainly in the secondary seed-coat walls of the outer epidermis of both green and white varieties of G. hirsutum. The suberins composed of predominantly C22 compounds are, however, markedly different from those present in the periderms of the same plants; these comprise mainly C16 and C18 compounds. Long-chain 1-alkanols (C26–C36) and alkanoic acids (C16–C36) are the principal components of the wax from white fibres but these lipid classes comprise a much smaller proportion of that from green fibres. unidentified highmolecular-weight compounds were the major constituents of the green-fibre was extract which also contains a number of yellow-green pigments, probably flavonoid in nature. These pigments are thought to be associated with the ultrahistochemical reaction with silver proteinate that was observed only in the green-fibre cell walls. A total of 16 wild and cultivated cotton species were examined with the electron microscope for the presence of suberin. The outer seed-coat epidermis of all the examined species but only the fibres of the wild ones were found to be suberized. Among the analysed mutants of fibre colour in G. hirsutum only the gene Lg (green lint) seemed to be associated with suberin.Abbreviations GLC
gas-liquid chromatography
- TLC
thinlayer chromatography
Fibres=fibre cells of the seed coat epidermis without fibre base; Seed coast=include the base of fibre cells, and short, so-called fuzz fibres |
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Keywords: | Cell wall lipid Fibre Gossypium (seed coast fibres) Seed coat Suberin Wax |
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