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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00173
Keywords
PAS; histology; polysaccharide granules; CSLA; Dendrobium officinale
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- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province Projects [Y631031001]
- Forestry Science and Technology Innovation Fund Project of Guangdong province [2015KJCX040]
- Science and Technology Service Network Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KFJ-EW-STS-118]
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Dendrobium officinale is a precious traditional Chinese medicinal plant because of its abundant polysaccharides found in stems. We determined the composition of watersoluble polysaccharides and starch content in D. officinale stems. The extracted watersoluble polysaccharide content was as high as 35% (w/w). Analysis of the composition of monosaccharides showed that the water-soluble polysaccharides were dominated by mannose, to a lesser extent glucose, and a small amount of galactose, in a molar ratio of 223: 48: 1. Although starch was also found, its content was less than 10%. This result indicated that the major polysaccharides in D. officinale stems were nonstarch polysaccharides, which might be mannan polysaccharides. The polysaccharides formed granules and were stored in plastids similar to starch grains, were localized in D. officinale stems by semi-thin and ultrathin sections. CELLULOSE SYNTHASE-LIKE A (CSLA) family members encode mannan synthases that catalyze the formation of mannan polysaccharides. To determine whether the CSLA gene from D. officinale was responsible for the synthesis of mannan polysaccharides, 35S: DoCSLA6 transgenic lines were generated and characterized. Our results suggest that the CSLA family genes from D. officinale play an important role in the biosynthesis of mannan polysaccharides.
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