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Glycan Profiling of Plant Cell Wall Polymers using Microarrays
Published on: December 17, 2012
Cell wall polysaccharides from in vitro propagated Cereus hildmannianus K. Schum. plants
A Corrêa1, É S Santos1, A C Gavioli2
1Phamaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, Department of Pharmacy, State University of Maringa, Maringa, Brazil.
Abstract:
Cereus hildmannianus is a cactus exhibiting morphological and physiological adaptation of its cladodes which ensuring growth in climatic and soil conditions unfavourable for many plant species. Currently, limited water resources and increasing demand for renewable energy make cacti a biomass source for the production of biofuels. Somaclones regenerated from callus in vitro can be a source of new raw material in useful plants. The objective of this work was to determine if the regenerated plants showing two different morphologies present polysaccharide composition different from the wild plant. Somaclones aqueous extraction shows the absence of soluble polysaccharides as mucilage. The alkaline extraction of in vivo cultivated plant showed the presence of starch, type I arabinogalactan, and arabinoxylan and the somaclones showed type I arabinogalactan and arabinoxylan in both morphologies. Hemicelluloses found in the somaclones are not different from in vivo cultivated plants, but somaclones not almost biosynthesize mucilage and starch.
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