Expansins, a diverse set of proteins found in plants and some other organisms, appear to play a key regulatory role in cell expansion, thereby serving critical functions in plant morphogenesis, development, and adaptation to stress. We have isolated a number of expansin genes from Petunia. Their ongoing functional analysis provides evidence for their involvement in cell wall functions, including cellulose metabolism, disruption of noncovalent cellulose/glycan bonds, and separation of the cell wall matrix during cell expansion.
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Zenoni, S., Zamboni, A., Porceddu, A., & Pezzotti, M. (2009). The role of expansins A in Petunia development. In Petunia: Evolutionary, Developmental and Physiological Genetics (Second Edition) (pp. 247–267). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84796-2_12
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