Cell wall composition throughout development for the model grass Brachypodium distanchyon

Frontiers in Plant Science

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Ronald D. Hatfield¹  Jane eMarita¹  David eRancour¹ 

[1] United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service;

关键词: plant cell wall;    biomass;    grass;    Chemical composition;    Brachypodium distanchyon;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpls.2012.00266

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Temperate perennial grasses are important worldwide as a livestock nutritive energy source and a potential feedstock for lignocellulosic biofuel production.The annual temperate grass Brachypodium distanchyon has been championed as a useful model system to facilitate biological research in agriculturally important temperate forage grasses based on phylogenetic relationships.To physically corroborate genetic predictions, we determined the chemical composition profiles of organ-specific cell walls throughout the development of two common diploid accessions of Brachypodium distanchyon, Bd21-3 and Bd21.Chemical analysis was performed on cell walls isolated from distinct organs (i.e. leaves, sheaths, stems and roots) at three developmental stages of 1) 12-day seedling, 2) vegetative-to-reproductive transition, and 3) mature seed-fill.In addition, we have included cell wall analysis of embryonic callus used for genetic transformations.Composition of cell walls based on components lignin, hydroxycinnamates, uronosyls, neutral sugars, and protein suggests that Brachypodium distanchyon is similar chemically to agriculturally important forage grasses.There were modest compositional differences in hydroxycinnamate profiles between accessions Bd21-3 and Bd21.In addition, when compared to agronomical important C3 grasses, more mature Brachypodium stem cell walls have a relative increase in glucose of 48% and a decrease in lignin of 36%.Though differences exists between Brachypodium and agronomical important C3 grasses, Brachypodium distanchyon should be still a useful model system for genetic manipulation of cell wall composition to determine the impact upon functional characteristics such as rumen digestibility or energy conversion efficiency for bioenergy production.

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