Increased drought tolerance in plants engineered for low lignin and low xylan content

Table 1 Features and nomenclature of engineered Arabidopsis plants used in this study

Name	Background	Genotype	Phenotype	References
pTBL29:GUX1	tbl29	pTBL29:GUX1	Low xylan acetylation	[17]
XE#55^a	irx7	pVND7:IRX7	Low xylan in fibers	[8]
pC4H:QsuB#1	Col-0	pC4H:QsuB	Low lignin, high H/G ratio	[22]
pC4H:QsuB#6	Col-0	pC4H:QsuB	Low lignin, high H/G ratio	[22]
W2#5	Col-0	pC4H:GALS1 pIRX5:UGE2 pIRX8:URGT1	High β-1,4-galactan. High C6/C5 ratio	[12]
W4#1	Col-0	pC4H:GALS1 pIRX5:UGE2 pIRX8:URGT1 pCESA7:QsuB	High β-1,4-galactan. High C6/C5 ratio. Low lignin	[12]
W4#2	Col-0	pC4H:GALS1 pIRX5:UGE2 pIRX8:URGT1 pCESA7:QsuB	High β-1,4-galactan. High C6/C5 ratio. Low lignin	[12]
X4#2	XE#55^a	pC4H:GALS1 pIRX5:UGE2 pIRX8:URGT1 pCESA7:QsuB	High β-1,4-galactan. High C6/C5 ratio. Low lignin. Low xylan	[12]
X4#12	XE#55^a	pC4H:GALS1 pIRX5:UGE2 pIRX8:URGT1 pCESA7:QsuB	High β-1,4-galactan. High C6/C5 ratio. Low lignin. Low xylan	[12]

The nomenclature and the line numbers are the same as used in the referenced studies
^a The name used for this line is the same as in the first study [8]. The XE#55 line was used as a control with the designation ‘X0’ in the recent paper by Aznar et al. [12]

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