Fraction of cell wall mass that is cellulose

Value 10.5 %
Organism Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana
Reference Schrick K, Fujioka S, Takatsuto S, Stierhof YD, Stransky H, Yoshida S, Jürgens G. A link between sterol biosynthesis, the cell wall, and cellulose in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 2004 Apr38(2):227-43.PubMed ID15078327
Primary Source Updegraff DM. Semimicro determination of cellulose in biological materials. Anal Biochem. 1969 Dec32(3):420-4.PubMed ID5361396
Method A quantitative colorimetric assay (primary source, Updegraff, 1969). Measured manually from fig. 5a in Schrick et al, which shows measurement of ~105 µg cellulose/100 mg dry weight of seed
Comments In seedling
Entered by Ron Milo - Admin
ID 100586