PhD Oral Defense: Cellulose content variation and underlying gene families in bread wheat

PhD Oral Defense of Simerjeet Kaur, Department of Plant Science

Synthesis and remodeling of various cell wall components play a vital role in plant development, architecture and innate immunity. Plant cell walls are mainly composed of cellulose and hemicellulose which produce a bulk of renewable biomass vital for food, feed and biofuels. Cellulose in the primary and secondary cell wall of plants is synthesised by the family of genes called CesA (Cellulose synthase A).  This study is a first report about the distinctive structural and functional motifs of primary and secondary cell wall synthesis genes.

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