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Hemicelluloses of Cell Walls of a Proso Millet Cell Suspension Culture ¹

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Cell wall composition of a stable suspension of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L. cv Abarr) cells is similar to those of tissues and cell suspensions of other graminaceous species. Extraction of hemicelluloses with step-wise increasing concentrations of alkali yields materials that, like those of embryonal cells of maize coleoptiles, comprise mostly glucuronoarabinoxylan, xyloglucan, and small amounts of (1-3),(1-4)--D-glucan. As in the walls of embryonal cells of the maize coleoptile, 5-arabinosyl and 3-arabinosyl comprise much higher proportions of the total hemicellulosic sugars than in walls of developed or elongated cells. Unlike cells of many dicotyledonous species, millet cells do not elongate or undergo observable differentiation during the stationary phase of culture, and consequently, their wall composition is remarkably consistent throughout the culture cycle. The proso millet cell suspension culture constitutes a reasonable model for study of cell wall biogenesis in embryonal cells of a graminaceous species, but because of marked changes in the composition of hemicelluloses in these species during cell enlargement, additional model systems should be sought.

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