Abstract
In plants, change in lipid composition is a common response to various abiotic stresses. Lipid constituents of bryophytes are of particular interest as they differ from that of flowering plants. Unlike higher plants, mosses have high content of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Such lipids are considered to be important for survival of nonvascular plants. Here, using abscisic acid (ABA )-induced changes in lipid composition in Physcomitrella patens as an example, a protocol for total lipid extraction and quantification by gas chromatography (GC) coupled with flame ionization detector (FID) is described.
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National Science Foundation Grant (NSF-IOS#1456917) supports AK’s research on moss.
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Shinde, S., Devaiah, S., Kilaru, A. (2017). Profiling Abscisic Acid-Induced Changes in Fatty Acid Composition in Mosses. In: Sunkar, R. (eds) Plant Stress Tolerance. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1631. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7136-7_18
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