MYB46-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation of Secondary Wall Biosynthesis

Abstract

Formation of secondary wall requires coordinated transcrip-tional regulation of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of major secondary wall components (e.g. cellulose, hemicellu-lose, and lignin). even though many aspects of plant biology have been extensively elucidated using various model spe-cies, our current understanding of secondary wall formation is limited.complex transcriptional networks appear to be involved in the coordinated regulation of secondary wall biosynthesis (Ko et al., 2009; Demura and Ye, 2010; Zhu et al., 2010; lee et al., 2011; for a recent review, see Wang and Dixon, 2012). Recently,