ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2009
Fructan and its relationship to abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
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116 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Viral-Based Gene Editing System for Nutritional Improvement of Fructan Content in Lettuce.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Extraction and Characterization of Inulin-Like Fructans from Hydroponically Grown Stevia rebaudiana Roots for Food Applications.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Sucrose synthase dynamics and its potential role in heat stress tolerance in cereals.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Soluble sugars make a greater contribution than cell wall components to the variability of freezing tolerance in wheat cultivars.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Numerous studies have been published that attempted to correlate fructan concentrations with freezing and drought tolerance. Studies investigating the effect of fructan on liposomes indicated that a direct interaction between membranes and fructan was possible. This new area of research began to move fructan and its association with stress beyond mere correlation by confirming that fructan has the capacity to stabilize membranes during drying by inserting at least part of the polysaccharide into the lipid headgroup region of the membrane. This helps prevent leakage when water is removed from the system either during freezing or drought. When plants were transformed with the ability to synthesize fructan, a concomitant increase in drought and/or freezing tolerance was confirmed. These experiments indicate that besides an indirect effect of supplying tissues with hexose sugars, fructan has a direct protective effect that can be demonstrated by both model systems and genetic transformation.
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