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Arabidopsis thaliana Polar Glycerolipid Profiling by Thin Layer Chromatography TLC Coupled with Gas-Liquid Chromatography GLC
Published on: March 18, 2011
Membrane lipids are involved in plant response to oxygen deprivation
Le Xu1,2, Rui Pan1, Wenying Zhang1
1Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry/Engineering Research Centre of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University , Jingzhou, China.
Abstract:
Membrane lipids change drastically in plants when they suffered from hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) stress. Overall, hypoxia stress lowers the contents of total lipids, inhabits lipid biosynthesis, and stimulates lipid degradation, leading to the accumulation of free fatty acids. Lipid alterations include changes in the contents of lipid classes, the extent of saturation, and the length of acyl chains. But the detail and systematic studies about lipid changes, as well as the function mechanism in hypoxia stress are poorly understood. Here, the major unanswered questions and suggestions on the study of the function of lipid in hypoxia stress were provided.
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