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Elspeth A. MacRae
Researcher at Scion
Publications - 74
Citations - 4136
Elspeth A. MacRae is an academic researcher from Scion. The author has contributed to research in topics: Actinidia deliciosa & Ripening. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 74 publications receiving 3805 citations. Previous affiliations of Elspeth A. MacRae include University of Nottingham & HortResearch.
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In vivo and in vitro swelling of cell walls during fruit ripening
TL;DR: Chemical and enzymatic removal of pectin from kiwifruit cell wall material supported the idea that swelling is associated with movement of water into voids left in the cellulose-hemicellulose network by the solubilised pECTin, but suggested that swelling in vivo was more complex than this.
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Galactose loss and fruit ripening: high-molecular-weight arabinogalactans in the pectic polysaccharides of fruit cell walls
TL;DR: In this article, cell wall material (CWM) was prepared from nine fruit species at two ripening stages (unripe and ripe) and extracted sequentially with 0.05m trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane-N,N, N′,N′-tetraacetic acid (CDTA), Na2CO3 and 4m KOH.
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Analysis of expressed sequence tags from Actinidia: Applications of a cross species EST database for gene discovery in the areas of flavor, health, color and ripening
Ross N. Crowhurst,Andrew P. Gleave,Elspeth A. MacRae,Charles Ampomah-Dwamena,Ross G. Atkinson,Lesley L. Beuning,Sean Bulley,David Chagné,K.B. Marsh,Adam J. Matich,Mirco Montefiori,Richard D. Newcomb,Robert J. Schaffer,Björn Usadel,Andrew C. Allan,Helen L. Boldingh,Judith H. Bowen,Marcus Davy,Rheinhart Eckloff,A. Ross Ferguson,Lena G. Fraser,Emma Gera,Roger P. Hellens,Bart J. Janssen,Karin Klages,Kim R. Lo,Robin M. MacDiarmid,Bhawana Nain,Mark A McNeilage,Maysoon Rassam,Annette C. Richardson,Erik H. A. Rikkerink,G. J. S. Ross,Roswitha Schröder,Kimberley C. Snowden,Edwige J. F. Souleyre,Matthew D. Templeton,Eric F. Walton,Daisy Wang,Mindy Y. Wang,Yanming Y Wang,Marion Wood,Rongmei Wu,Yar-Khing Yauk,William A. Laing +44 more
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of 132,577 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were derived mainly from four Actinidia species (A. chinensis, A. arguta and A. eriantha) and fell into 41,858 non redundant clusters (18,070 tentative consensus sequences and 23,788 EST singletons).
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New complexities in the synthesis of sucrose
John E. Lunn,Elspeth A. MacRae +1 more
TL;DR: After years of neglect, the gene encoding the last enzyme in the pathway, sucrose-phosphatase (SPP), has finally been cloned, revealing that SPS contains an SPP-like domain at the carboxy-terminus, to which SPP might bind.
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A highly specific l-galactose-1-phosphate phosphatase on the path to ascorbate biosynthesis
William A. Laing,Sean Bulley,Michele A. Wright,Janine M. Cooney,Dwayne J. Jensen,Di Barraclough,Elspeth A. MacRae +6 more
TL;DR: A specific L-galactose-1-phosphate (L-gal- 1-P) phosphatase is described that is partially purified from young kiwifruit berries and expressed in Escherichia coli and found that it showed 14-fold higher maximum velocity for l-gal -1-P than myo-inositol-1 -P.