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Study of grain cell wall structures by microscopic analysis with four different staining techniques
Emmie Dornez,Ulla Holopainen,Sven Cuyvers,Kaisa Poutanen,Jan A. Delcour,Christophe M. Courtin,Emilia Nordlund +6 more
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Four different grain cell wall staining techniques were compared and AX was mostly concentrated in nucellar epidermis and aleurone cells, whereas β-glucan was concentrated more in subaleur one cells, giving new insight into the structure of the cereal dietary fiber complex.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cereal Science.The article was published on 2011-08-12. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aleurone & Endosperm.read more
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Endosperm and aleurone cell structure in barley and wheat as studied by optical and Raman microscopy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used optical and Raman microscopy to localize wheat and barley grain components using selective stains and autofluorescence to image the ferulic acid and other fluorescing substances.
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Element distribution and iron speciation in mature wheat grains (Triticum aestivum L.) using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy mapping and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) imaging.
Niels De Brier,Sara Gomand,Erica Donner,David L. Paterson,Erik Smolders,Jan A. Delcour,Enzo Lombi +6 more
TL;DR: Speciation analysis suggests that Fe is bound to nicotianamine rather than phytate in the nucellar projection, and that more complex Fe structures may also be present, as well as revealing the complexity of the physiological processes responsible for element accumulation and bioaccessibility.
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Impact of hydrothermal pre-treatment to chemical composition, enzymatic digestibility and spatial distribution of cell wall polymers.
Ulla Holopainen-Mantila,Kaisa Marjamaa,Zara Merali,Andres Käsper,Peter de Bot,Anna Stiina Jääskeläinen,Keith W. Waldron,Kristiina Kruus,Tarja Tamminen +8 more
TL;DR: The sample with the highest digestibility was observed to have intensified cellulose staining, possibly reflecting the increased accessibility of cellulose, and the highest yields were obtained from the samples with a low xylan and diferulate content.
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Quantitative structural organisation model for wheat endosperm cell walls: Cellulose as an important constituent.
Ghanendra Gartaula,Sushil Dhital,Gabriele Netzel,Bernadine M. Flanagan,Gleb E. Yakubov,Cherie T. Beahan,Helen Collins,Rachel A. Burton,Antony Bacic,Michael J. Gidley +9 more
TL;DR: A model for endosperm cell wall structural organisation is proposed, based on a core of cellulose and interacting non-cellulosic polysaccharides which anchors AX that in turn retains MLGs through physical entanglement.
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Iron and zinc complexation in wild-type and ferritin-expressing wheat grain: implications for mineral transport into developing grain
Andrew L. Neal,Kalotina Geraki,Søren Borg,Paul D. Quinn,J. Fred W. Mosselmans,Henrik Brinch-Pedersen,Peter R. Shewry +6 more
TL;DR: Derivative X-ray absorption spectra suggest that mineral complexation in the transfer region of ferritin-expressing grains is quite different from that in wild-type grain, which may explain why the raised levels of minerals transported to the developing grain accumulate within the crease region of the transgenic grain.
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Novel food and non-food uses for sorghum and millets.
TL;DR: Sorghum and millets have considerable potential in foods and beverages, and potential by-products such as the kafirin prolamin proteins and the pericarp wax have potential as bioplastic films and coatings for foods, primarily due to their hydrophobicity.
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Monoclonal antibodies to plant cell wall xylans and arabinoxylans.
TL;DR: Two rat monoclonal antibodies have been generated to plant cell wall (1→4)-β-D-xylans using a penta-1,4-xylanoside-containing neoglycoprotein as an immunogen, indicating the presence of both epitopes in secondary cell walls of xylem but differences in occurrence in other cell types.
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Prebiotic and other health-related effects of cereal-derived arabinoxylans, arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides, and xylooligosaccharides.
Willem F. Broekaert,Christophe M. Courtin,Kristin Verbeke,Tom Van de Wiele,Willy Verstraete,Jan A. Delcour +5 more
TL;DR: This review mainly focuses on the available evidence that AXOS and XOS exert prebiotic effects in the colon of humans and animals through selective stimulation of beneficial intestinal microbiota.
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Wheat arabinoxylans : Exploiting variation in amount and composition to develop enhanced varieties
TL;DR: This paper summarises recent knowledge on the structure and physicochemical properties of AX including variation between cultivars and tissues, methods for analysis and screening, biosynthetic mechanisms and approaches to identifying key genes.
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Relative amounts of tissues in mature wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain and their carbohydrate and phenolic acid composition
TL;DR: Hand dissection of mature grains from two common wheats was performed to quantitatively assess their tissue composition and to obtain homogeneous samples of embryonic axis, scutellum, starchy endosperm, aleurone layer, hyaline layer, outer pericarp and a composite layer made up of testa+hyaline layer+innerPericarp.