Yong, W., N.C. Carpita,
B. Link, X. Li, W-D. Reiter, R. O’Malley, A.B. Bleeker, S.E
Patterson, J. Tewari, M.C. McCann, C. Staiger, C.T. Hunter, C.-A.
Lu, K.E. Koch, D.R. McCarty, S.R. Thomas, W. Vermerris. 2005. Genomics
of plant cell wall biogenesis. Planta 221,
747-751 - Click here for full publication (pdf
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Pena, M.J.and N.C. Carpita. 2004. Loss of Highly
Branched Arabinans and Debranching of Rhamnogalacturonan I Accompany
loss of Firm Texture and Cell Separation during Prolonged Storage of
Apple. Plant Physiology. 135, 1305-1313
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Pena, M.J., P. Peter, M. Madson, A.C. Smith, N.C. Carpita.
2004. The Galactose Residues of Xyloglucan Are Essential to maintain
Mechanical Strengh of the Primary Cell Walls in Arabidopsis during
Growth. Plant Physiology. 134, 443-451 -
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Urbanowicz,
B. R., C. Rayon, N. C. Carpita. 2004. Topology of the
maize mixed-linkage (1→3),(1→4)-ß-D-glucan
synthase at the Golgi membrane. Plant Physiol. 134,
758-768 - Click here for full publication (pdf
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Peña, M. J., P. Ryden, M. Madson, A. Smith, W-D. Reiter, N. C. Carpita. 2004. Galactosylation of xyloglucans is essential for maintenance of cell wall tensile strength during cell growth in plants. Plant Physiol.134, 443–451.
Buckeridge,
M. S., C. Rayon, B. Urbanowicz, M. A. S. Tine, N. C. Carpita. 2004.
Mixed linkage (1→3),(1→4)-ß-D-glucans of grasses. Cereal
Chem.81, 115-127 - Click here for full publication (pdf
file)
Madson, M., C. Dunand, X. Li, R. Verma, G.F. Vanzin, J. Caplan, D.A.
Shoue, N.C. Capita, W-D. Reiter. 2003. The MUR3
Gene of Arabidopsis Encodes a Xyloglucan Galactosyltransferase That
Is Evolutionarily Related to Animal Exostosins. The Plant Cell. 15,
1662-1670 - Click here for full publication (pdf
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Zhu, Y., J. Nam, N. C. Carpita,
A. G. Matthysse, and S. B. Gelvin. 2003. Agrobacterium-mediated
root transformation is inhibited by mutation of an Arabidopsis cellulose
synthase-like gene. Plant Physiol.133, 1000-1010.
Madson, M., C. Dunand, R. Verma, G. F. Vanzin, J. Caplan, X. Li, D. A., Shoue, N. C. Carpita, W-D. Reiter. 2003. Xyloglucan galactosyltransferase, a plant enzyme in cell wall biogenesis homologous to animal exostosins. Plant Cell 15, 1662–1670.
Lao, N. T., D. Long, S. Kiang, G. Coupland, D. A. Shoue, N. C. Carpita, T. A. Kavanagh. 2003. Mutation of a family 8 glycosyltransferase gene alters cell wall carbohydrate composition and causes a humidity-sensitive semi-sterile dwarf phenotype in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol. Biol. 53,
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Vanzin,
G. F., M. Madson, N. C. Carpita, N. V. Raikhel, K. Keegstra,
W-D. Reiter. 2002. The mur2 mutant of Arabidopsis
thaliana lacks fucosylated xyloglucan because of a lesion in
fucosyltransferase AtFUT1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA99,
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Carpita, N. C., and M. C. McCann. 2002. The functions of cell wall polysaccharides in composition and architecture revealed through mutations. Plant Soil 274, 71-80.
Carpita, N. C., M. Defernez, K. Findlay, B. Wells, D. A. Shoue, G. Catchpole, R. H. Wilson, and M. C. McCann. 2001. Cell wall architecture of the elongating maize coleoptile. Plant Physiol127, 551-565.
Penfield, S., R. C. Meissner, D. A. Shoue, N. C. Carpita, and M. W. Bevan. 2001. MYB61 is required for mucilage deposition and extrusion in the Arabidopsis seed coat. Plant Cell13, 2777-2791. [plus cover]
Carpita, N., M. Tierney, and M. Campbell. 2001. Molecular biology of the plant cell wall: Searching for the genes that define structure, architecture and wall dynamics. Plant Mol. Biol. 47, 1-5.
Vergara, C. E., N. C. Carpita. 2001. ß-D-Glycan synthases and the CesA gene family: Lessons to be learned from themixed-linkage (1→3),(1→4)ß-D-glucan synthase.Plant Mol. Biol.47, 145-160.
Schindelman, G., A. Morikami, J. Jung, T. I. Baskin, N. C. Carpita, M. C. McCann, P. N. Benfey. 2001. The COBRA gene encodes a putative glycosylphosphatidyl-inositol anchored protein, which is polarly localized and necessary for oriented cell expansion in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 15, 1115-1127.
Buckeridge, M.S., C.E. Vergara, N.C. Carpita.
1999. The Mechanism of Synthesis of a Mixed-Linkage (1→3),(1→4) ß-D-Glucan
in Maize. Evidence for Multiple Sites of Glucosyl Transfer in
the Synthase Complex. Plant Physiology. 120,
1105-1116 - Click here for full publication (pdf
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Gibeaut,
D.M., and N.C. Carpita.
1993. Synthesis of (1→3), (1→4)-ß-D-glucan in the Golgi
apparatus of maize coleoptiles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA90,
3850-3854 - Click here for full
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Book Chapters and Reviews
Carpita, N. C., and M. C. McCann. 2000. Chapter 2 “The Cell Wall” In: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants (B. B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones, eds), American Society Plant Physiologists, Rockville, MD.
Carpita, N.C. 1996. Structure and biogenesis of the cell walls of grasses. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Molec. Biol.47, 445-476
Carpita, N. C., and D. M. Gibeaut. 1993. Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: Consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the walls during growth. Plant J.3, 1-30.