Oligosaccharide signals in plants: a current assessment
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serval:BIB_A91BB5D2238B
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Title
Oligosaccharide signals in plants: a current assessment
Journal
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
ISSN
1040-2519
0066-4294
0066-4294
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1991
Volume
42
Pages
651-674
Language
english
Abstract
Roles for oligosaccharides as signals for activating defensive and de velopmental processes have continued to be reported and supported in the recent literature. Studies of recognition events employing defined oligosac charides indicate that oligosaccharides interact with cellular membrane recep tors in a hormone-like manner to affect gene regulation. Recent studies concerning the regulation of signal production (e.g. studies of the roles PGIPs play in regulating the effective half-lives of oligouronides in infected tissue; and investigations of possible roles for cell wall fragments in morphogenesis, hypersensitivity, fruit ripening, and cell elongation) provide further evidence that oligosaccharides signal developmental responses. In plants, as in an imals , our understanding of how complex carbohydrates may function i n signaling and recognition systems is still in its infancy.
Keywords
developmental signals, defense gene signals, signal transduction, oligouronide signaling, oligosaccharide elicitors
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