ArticleThe Plant cell2013
An ATP binding cassette transporter is required for cuticular wax deposition and desiccation tolerance in the moss Physcomitrella patens.
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- Wheat Class I TCP Transcription Factor TaTCP15 Positively Regulates Cutin and Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis.Biomolecules · 2026Article
- The WSD-type wax ester synthase is widely conserved in streptophytes and crucial for floral organ formation under high humidity in land plants.Journal of plant research · 2025Article
- Wheat WW Domain-Containing Protein TaCFL1 Negatively Regulates Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The evolution of plant responses underlying specialized metabolism in host-pathogen interactions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Cuticle development and the underlying transcriptome-metabolome associations during early seedling establishment.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Wheat Transcription Factor TaMYB60 Modulates Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis by ActivatingInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Cytochrome b5 diversity in green lineages preceded the evolution of syringyl lignin biosynthesis.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Wheat MIXTA-like Transcriptional Activators Positively Regulate Cuticular Wax Accumulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Diversified chemical profiles of cuticular wax on alpine meadow plants of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Planta · 2023Article
- The putative ABCG transporterPhysiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2023Article
- The Plant Fatty Acyl Reductases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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- Transcriptome and Physiological Analyses of a Navel Orange Mutant with Improved Drought Tolerance and Water Use Efficiency Caused by Increases of Cuticular Wax Accumulation and ROS Scavenging Capacity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Radiationless mechanism of UV deactivation by cuticle phenolics in plants.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Developmental Plasticity of the Amphibious LiverwortFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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- Cuticle structure and chemical composition of waxes inFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
The plant cuticle is thought to be a critical evolutionary adaptation that allowed the first plants to colonize land, because of its key roles in regulating plant water status and providing protection from biotic and abiotic stresses. Much has been learned about cuticle composition and structure through genetic and biochemical studies of angiosperms, as well as underlying genetic pathways, but little is known about the cuticles of early diverging plant lineages. Here, we demonstrate that the moss Physcomitrella patens, an extant relative of the earliest terrestrial plants, has a cuticle that is analogous in both structure and chemical composition to those of angiosperms. To test whether the underlying cuticle biosynthetic pathways were also shared among distant plant lineages, we generated a genetic knockout of the moss ATP binding cassette subfamily G (ABCG) transporter Pp-ABCG7, a putative ortholog of Arabidopsis thaliana ABCG transporters involved in cuticle precursor trafficking. We show that this mutant is severely deficient in cuticular wax accumulation and has a reduced tolerance of desiccation stress compared with the wild type. This work provides evidence that the cuticle was an adaptive feature present in the first terrestrial plants and that the genes involved in their formation have been functionally conserved for over 450 million years.
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