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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages 311-322Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00261-3
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Thuja plicata; Cupressaceae; western red cedar; Arabidopsis thaliana; Brassicaceae; Thale cress; GUS reporter gene; genome walking; dirigent proteins; monolignol radical-radical coupling networks
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The discovery of a nine-member multigene dirigent family involved in control of monolignol radical-radical coupling in the ancient gymnosperm, western red cedar, suggested that a complex multidimensional network had evolved to regulate such processes in vascular plants. Accordingly, in this study, the corresponding promoter regions for each dirigent multigene member were obtained by genome-walking, with Arabidopsis being subsequently transformed to express each promoter fused to the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene. It was found that each component gene of the proposed network is apparently differentially expressed in individual tissues, organs and cells at all stages of plant growth and development. The data so obtained thus further support the hypothesis that a sophisticated monolignol radical-radical coupling network exists in plants which has been highly conserved throughout vascular plant evolution. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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