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The synthetic phenylglycoside, β-glucosyl Yariv reagent (βGlcY), binds specifically to a subset of AGPs in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. When wild-type seedlings are germinated in media containing 30 μM βGlcY, a dramatic reduction in root and shoot growth, compared to control seedlings, is observed (Willats and Knox 1996). Short roots are a result of reduced cell elongation rather than reduced cell proliferation. We have used this βGlcY-phenotype in wild-type plants as a reference point in the screening of T-DNA and EMS-generated mutants for seedlings that are supersensitive or insensitive to βGlcY, or which show an altered pattern of βGlcY binding. The EMS-generated mutant, YSS1, has an apparently wild-type phenotype at 14 days. However, when YSS1 is germinated in the presence of βGlcY, the growth of the seedling is retarded to a much greater extent than wild-type seedlings, and the root is less than a millimetre in length at 14 days. This result with YSS1 is in contrast to wild-type seedlings grown in 30 μM βGlcY, where maximum root length is 8 mm. When YSS1 is transferred to medium without βGlcY, the mutant appears to recover a wild-type phenotype. This mutant, YSS1, is a very recent finding in our laboratory, and results are preliminary. It is possible, however, that YSS1 is a mutant that is supersensitive to βGlcY treatment. If this is the case, molecular studies of YSS1 are likely to yield important data regarding the βGlcY-binding subset of AGPs and their role in cell expansion.
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Willats, W. G. T., and Knox, J. P., 1996, A role for arabinogalactan-proteins in plant cell expansion: Evidence from studies on the interaction of beta-glucosyl Yariv reagent with seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana, Plant J. 9: 919–925.
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Steele-King, C.G., Paul Knox, J. (2000). A Role for Arabinogalactan-Proteins in Root Growth. In: Nothnagel, E.A., Bacic, A., Clarke, A.E. (eds) Cell and Developmental Biology of Arabinogalactan-Proteins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4207-0_34
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