Nature Communications (Mar 2017)
A phenol-enriched cuticle is ancestral to lignin evolution in land plants
- Hugues Renault,
- Annette Alber,
- Nelly A. Horst,
- Alexandra Basilio Lopes,
- Eric A. Fich,
- Lucie Kriegshauser,
- Gertrud Wiedemann,
- Pascaline Ullmann,
- Laurence Herrgott,
- Mathieu Erhardt,
- Emmanuelle Pineau,
- Jürgen Ehlting,
- Martine Schmitt,
- Jocelyn K. C. Rose,
- Ralf Reski,
- Danièle Werck-Reichhart
Affiliations
- Hugues Renault
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Annette Alber
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Nelly A. Horst
- Faculty of Biology, Chair of Plant Biotechnology, University of Freiburg
- Alexandra Basilio Lopes
- Laboratoire d’Innovation Thérapeutique, UMR CNRS 7200, Université de Strasbourg
- Eric A. Fich
- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
- Lucie Kriegshauser
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Gertrud Wiedemann
- Faculty of Biology, Chair of Plant Biotechnology, University of Freiburg
- Pascaline Ullmann
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Laurence Herrgott
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Mathieu Erhardt
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Emmanuelle Pineau
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Jürgen Ehlting
- Department of Biology & Centre for Forest Biology, University of Victoria
- Martine Schmitt
- Laboratoire d’Innovation Thérapeutique, UMR CNRS 7200, Université de Strasbourg
- Jocelyn K. C. Rose
- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
- Ralf Reski
- Faculty of Biology, Chair of Plant Biotechnology, University of Freiburg
- Danièle Werck-Reichhart
- University of Strasbourg, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14713
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
The phenolic polymer lignin is thought to have contributed to adaptation of early land plants to terrestrial environments. Here Renaultet al. show that moss, which does not produce lignin, contains an ancestral phenolic metabolism pathway that produces a phenol-enriched cuticle and prevents desiccation.
