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Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volume 52, 2014

Altering the Cell Wall and Its Impact on Plant Disease: From Forage to Bioenergy

Abstract

The individual sugars found within the major classes of plant cell wall polymers are dietary components of herbivores and are targeted for release in industrial processes for fermentation to liquid biofuels. With a growing understanding of the biosynthesis of the complex cell wall polymers, genetic modification strategies are being developed to target the cell wall to improve the digestibility of forage crops and to render lignocellulose less recalcitrant for bioprocessing. This raises concerns as to whether altering cell wall properties to improve biomass processing traits may inadvertently make plants more susceptible to diseases and pests. Here, we review the impacts of cell wall modification on plant defense, as assessed from studies in model plants utilizing mutants or transgenic modification and in crop plants specifically engineered for improved biomass or bioenergy traits. Such studies reveal that cell wall modifications can indeed have unintended impacts on plant defense, but these are not always negative.

Keyword(s): forage quality, lignin modification, oligosaccharin, plant-pathogen defense, secondary cell wall
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Altering the Cell Wall and Its Impact on Plant Disease: From Forage to Bioenergy
Annual Review of Phytopathology 52, 69 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102237
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