Cucumber ECERIFERUM1 (CsCER1), which influences the cuticle properties and drought tolerance of cucumber, plays a key role in VLC alkanes biosynthesis

Expression of wild soybean WRKY20 in Arabidopsis enhances drought tolerance and regulates ABA signalling

(2013) Xiao Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Transcription Repressor HANABA TARANU Controls Flower Development by Integrating the Actions of Multiple Hormones, Floral Organ Specification Genes, and GATA3 Family Genes inArabidopsis

(2013) Xiaolan Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

Fusing catalase to an alkane-producing enzyme maintains enzymatic activity by converting the inhibitory byproduct H2O2 to the cosubstrate O2

(2013) C. Andre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular cloning, characteristics and low temperature response of raffinose synthase gene in Cucumis sativus L.

(2012) Xiao-lei Sui et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Tomato GDSL1 Is Required for Cutin Deposition in the Fruit Cuticle

(2012) A.-L. Girard et al.   PLANT CELL

Loss of Abaxial Leaf Epicuticular Wax in Medicago truncatula irg1/palm1 Mutants Results in Reduced Spore Differentiation of Anthracnose and Nonhost Rust Pathogens

(2012) S. R. Uppalapati et al.   PLANT CELL

Reconstitution of Plant Alkane Biosynthesis in Yeast Demonstrates That Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM1 and ECERIFERUM3 Are Core Components of a Very-Long-Chain Alkane Synthesis Complex

(2012) A. Bernard et al.   PLANT CELL

Oxygen-Independent Decarbonylation of Aldehydes by Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase: A New Reaction of Diiron Enzymes

(2011) Debasis Das et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Detection of Formate, Rather than Carbon Monoxide, As the Stoichiometric Coproduct in Conversion of Fatty Aldehydes to Alkanes by a Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase

(2011) Douglas M. Warui et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The MYB96 Transcription Factor Regulates Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis under Drought Conditions in Arabidopsis

(2011) P. J. Seo et al.   PLANT CELL

Overexpression of Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM1 Promotes Wax Very-Long-Chain Alkane Biosynthesis and Influences Plant Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

(2011) B. Bourdenx et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Induced accumulation of cuticular waxes enhances drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by changes in development of stomata

(2011) Jaemo Yang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Wax crystal-sparse leaf2, a rice homologue of WAX2/GL1, is involved in synthesis of leaf cuticular wax

(2011) Bigang Mao et al.   PLANTA

Composition differences between epicuticular and intracuticular wax substructures: How do plants seal their epidermal surfaces?

(2010) C. Buschhaus et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

(2010) A. Schirmer et al.   SCIENCE

Plant cuticles shine: advances in wax biosynthesis and export

(2009) Ljerka Kunst et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Two Arabidopsis 3-ketoacyl CoA synthase genes,KCS20andKCS2/DAISY, are functionally redundant in cuticular wax and root suberin biosynthesis, but differentially controlled by osmotic stress

(2009) Saet-Buyl Lee et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Characterization of Glossy1-homologous genes in rice involved in leaf wax accumulation and drought resistance

(2009) Mohammad Asadul Islam et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The Impact of Water Deficiency on Leaf Cuticle Lipids of Arabidopsis

(2009) D. K. Kosma et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Sealing Plant Surfaces: Cuticular Wax Formation by Epidermal Cells

(2008) Lacey Samuels et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Effects of ultraviolet-B irradiation on the cuticular wax of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) cotyledons

(2008) Satoshi Fukuda et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Building lipid barriers: biosynthesis of cutin and suberin

(2008) Mike Pollard et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE