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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2012

Cotton fiber: a powerful single-cell model for cell wall and cellulose research.

Candace H Haigler, Lissete Betancur, Michael R Stiff, John R Tuttle

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 185 papers.

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185citing papers in PubMed
14.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

185 citing papers in PubMed, 431 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Candace H HaiglerDepartment of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Lissete Betancur
Michael R Stiff
John R Tuttle
North Carolina State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cotton fibers are single-celled extensions of the seed epidermis. They can be isolated in pure form as they undergo staged differentiation including primary cell wall synthesis during elongation and nearly pure cellulose synthesis during secondary wall thickening. This combination of features supports clear interpretation of data about cell walls and cellulose synthesis in the context of high throughput modern experimental technologies. Prior contributions of cotton fiber to building fundamental knowledge about cell walls will be summarized and the dynamic changes in cell wall polymers throughout cotton fiber differentiation will be described. Recent successes in using stable cotton transformation to alter cotton fiber cell wall properties as well as cotton fiber quality will be discussed. Futurec prospects to perform experiments more rapidly through altering cotton fiberwall properties via virus-induced gene silencing will be evaluated.

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cellulosecotton fiberelongationGossypiumpectintransition stagevirus-induced gene silencingxyloglucan

Identifiers

PMID22661979
PMCPMC3356883
OpenAlexW1979160073

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