Abstract
Plant cell walls have important roles during all phases of plant growth and development. Polysaccharides are the major components of the primary walls surrounding growing plant cells, together with small amounts of protein and minerals. Secondary walls that are deposited when a cell has ceased to grow are also composed predominantly of polysaccharides, although lignin may account for up to 20% w/w of these walls. The types of polysaccharides and their structure and abundance often vary greatly in the cell walls of different plant species, different cell types, and different developmental stages. Significant changes in structure and composition of cell wall have been described in various types of plant senescence. Here we describe a general method for the isolation of cell wall polysaccharides as their alcohol-insoluble residues (AIR) and procedures for the determination of the neutral and acidic monosaccharides present in the wall.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470291, 31670302), the National Science and Technology Support Program (2015BAD15B03), and the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong (to GZ).
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Kong, Y., O’Neill, M., Zhou, G. (2018). Plant Cell Walls: Isolation and Monosaccharide Composition Analysis. In: Guo, Y. (eds) Plant Senescence. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1744. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7672-0_25
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