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PLOS ONE
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165827
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) [262461]
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In this work, cuticular waxes from flag leaf blades and peduncles of Triticum aestivum cv.Bethlehem were investigated in search for novel wax compounds. Seven wax compound classes were detected that had previously not been reported, and their structures were elucidated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of various derivatives. Six of the classes were identified as series of homologs differing by two methylene units, while the seventh was a homologous series with homologs with single methylene unit differences. In the waxes of flag leaf blades, secondary alcohols (predominantly C-27 and C-33), primary/secondary diols (predominantly C-28) and esters of primary/secondary diols (predominantly C-50, combining C-28 diol with C-22 acid) were found, all sharing similar secondary hydroxyl group positions at and around C-12 or omega-12. 7- and 8-hydroxy-2-alkanol esters (predominantly C-35), 7- and 8-oxo-2-alkanol esters (predominantly C-35), and 4-alkylbutan-4-olides (predominantly C28) were found both in flag leaf and peduncle wax mixtures. Finally, a series of even- and odd-numbered alkane homologs was identified in both leaf and peduncle waxes, with an internal methyl branch preferentially on C-11 and C-13 of homologs with even total carbon number and on C-12 of odd-numbered homologs. Biosynthetic pathways are suggested for all compounds, based on common structural features and matching chain length profiles with other wheat wax compound classes.
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