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@ARTICLE{Voiniciuc:819305,
author = {Voiniciuc, Cătălin and Zimmermann, Eva and Günl, Markus
and Fu, Lanbao and North, Helen M. and Usadel, Björn and
Schmidt, Maximilian},
title = {{E}xtensive {N}atural {V}ariation in {A}rabidopsis {S}eed
{M}ucilage {S}tructure},
journal = {Frontiers in Functional Plant Ecology},
volume = {7},
issn = {1664-462X},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media88991},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-05006},
pages = {803},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Hydrated Arabidopsis thaliana seeds are coated by a
gelatinous layer called mucilage, which is mainly composed
of cell wall polysaccharides. Since mucilage is rich in
pectin, its architecture can be visualized with the
ruthenium red (RR) dye. We screened the seeds of around 280
Arabidopsis natural accessions for variation in mucilage
structure, and identified a large number of novel variants
that differed from the Col-0 wild-type. Most of the
accessions released smaller RR-stained capsules compared to
the Col-0 reference. By biochemically characterizing the
phenotypes of 25 of these accessions in greater detail, we
discovered that distinct changes in polysaccharide structure
resulted in gelatinous coatings with a deceptively similar
appearance. Monosaccharide composition analysis of total
mucilage extracts revealed a remarkable variation (from 50
to $200\%$ of Col-0 levels) in the content of galactose and
mannose, which are important subunits of heteromannan. In
addition, most of the natural variants had altered Pontamine
Fast Scarlet 4B staining of cellulose and significantly
reduced birefringence of crystalline structures. This
indicates that the production or organization of cellulose
may be affected by the presence of different amounts of
hemicellulose. Although, the accessions described in this
study were primarily collected from Western Europe, they
form five different phenotypic classes based on the combined
results of our experiments. This suggests that polymorphisms
at multiple loci are likely responsible for the observed
mucilage structure. The transcription of MUCILAGE-RELATED10
(MUCI10), which encodes a key enzyme for galactoglucomannan
synthesis, was severely reduced in multiple variants that
phenocopied the muci10-1 insertion mutant. Although, we
could not pinpoint any causal polymorphisms in this gene,
constitutive expression of fluorescently-tagged MUCI10
proteins complemented the mucilage defects of a muci10-like
accession. This leads us to hypothesize that some accessions
might disrupt a transcriptional regulator of MUCI10.
Therefore, this collection of publicly-available variants
should provide insight into plant cell wall organization and
facilitate the discovery of genes that regulate
polysaccharide biosynthesis.},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000377260700003},
pubmed = {pmid:27375657},
doi = {10.3389/fpls.2016.00803},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/819305},
}