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Paterson, A. H., Bowers, J. E., Bruggmann, R., Dubchak, I., Grimwood, J., Gundlach, H., Haberer, G., Hellsten, U., Mitros, T., Poliakov, A., Schmutz, J., Spannagl, M., Tang, H., Wang, X., Wicker, T., Bharti, A. K., Chapman, J., Feltus, F. A., Gowik, U., Grigoriev, I. V., Lyons, E., Maher, C. A., Martis, M., Narechania, A., Otillar, R. P., Penning, B. W., Salamov, A. A., Wang, Y., Zhang, L., Carpita, N. C., Freeling, M., Gingle, A. R., Hash, C. T., Keller, B., Klein, P., Kresovich, S., McCann, M. C., Ming, R., Peterson, D. G., Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Ware, D., Westhoff, P., Mayer, K. F. X., Messing, J., Rokhsar, D. S. 2009. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses. Nature. 457: 551-557. view article

McCann, M. C., Carpita, N. C. 2008. Designing the deconstruction of plant cell walls. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 11: 314-321. view article

Carpita, N. C., McCann, M. C. 2008. Maize and sorghum: genetic resources for bioenergy grasses. Trends Plant Sci. 13: 415-420. view article

Tobias, C. M., Sarath, G., Twigg, P., Lindquist, E., Pangilinan, J., Penning, B. W., Barry, K., McCann, M. C., Carpita, N. C., Lazo, G. R. 2008.
Comparative genomics in switchgrass using 61,585 high-quality expressed sequence tags. Plant Genome. 1: 112-124. view article

Derbyshire, P., McCann, M. C., Roberts, K. 2007. Restricted cell elongation in Arabidopsis hypocotyls is associated with a reduced average pectin esterification level. BMC Plant Biol. 7: 31. view article

McCann, M. C., Defernez, M., Urbanowicz, B. R., Tewari, J. C., Langewisch, T., Olek, A., Wells, B., Wilson, R. H., Carpita, N. C. 2007. Neural network analyses of infrared spectra for classifying cell wall architectures. Plant Physiol. 143: 1314-1326. view article

Sindhu, A., Langewisch, T., Olek, A., Multani, D. S., McCann, M. C., Vermerris, W., Carpita, N. C., Johal, G. 2007. Maize Brittle Stalk2 encodes a COBRA-like protein expressed in early organ development but required for tissue flexibility at maturity. Plant Physiol. 145: 1444-1459. view article

Dean, G. H., Zheng, H., Tewari, J. C., Young, D. S., Hwang, Y-T., Western, T., Carpita, N. C., McCann, M. C., Mansfield, S. D., Haughn, G. W. 2007. The Arabidopsis MUM2 gene encodes a putative β-galactosidase required for the production of seed coat mucilage with correct hydration properties. Plant Cell. 19: 4007-4021. view article

Zografidis, A., Kapolas, G., Kitsios, G., McCann, M. C., Roberts, K., Milioni, D., Haralampidis, K. 2007. Isolation and characterization of ZePES and AtPES, the pescadillo orthologs from Zinnia and Arabidopsis. Plant Science. 173: 358-369. view article

Dahiya, P., Findlay, K., Roberts, K., McCann, M. C. 2006. A fasciclin-domain containing gene, ZeFLA11, is expressed exclusively in xylem elements that have reticulate wall thickenings in the stem vascular system of Zinnia elegans cv Envy. Planta. 223: 1281-1291. view article

Marry, M., Roberts, K., Jopson, S. J., Huxham, I. M., Jarvis, M. C., Corsar, J., Robertson, E., McCann, M. C. 2006. Cell-cell adhesion in fresh sugar-beet root parenchyma requires both pectin esters and calcium cross-links. Physiol. Plant. 126: 243-256. view article

Mackinnon, I. M., Šturcová, A., Sugimoto-Shirasu, K., His, I., McCann, M. C., Jarvis, M. C. 2006. Cell-wall structure and anisotropy in procuste, a cellulose synthase mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta. 224: 438-448. view article

Jones, L., Milne, J. L., Ashford, D., McCann, M. C., McQueen-Mason, S. J. 2005. A conserved functional role of pectic polymers in stomatal guard cells from a range of plant species. Planta. 221: 255-264. view article

McCann, M. C., Carpita, N. C. 2005. Looking for invisible phenotypes in cell wall mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Biosyst. 139: 80-83.

Yong, W., Link, B., O'Malley, R., Tewari, J., Hunter, C. T., Lu, C-A., Li, X., Bleecker, A. B., Koch, K. E., McCann, M. C., McCarty, D. R., Patterson, S. E., Reiter, W-D., Staiger, C., Thomas, S. R., Vermerris, W., Carpita, N. C. 2005. Genomics of plant cell wall biogenesis. Planta. 221: 747-751. view article

Fraysse, L., Wells, B., McCann, M. C., Kjellbom, P. 2005. Specific plasma membrane aquaporins of the PIP1 subfamily are expressed in sieve elements and guard cells. Biol. Cell. 97: 519-534. view article

Sugimoto-Shirasu, K., Roberts, G. R., Stacey, N. J., McCann, M. C., Maxwell, A., Roberts, K. 2005. RHL1 is an essential component of the plant DNA topoisomerase VI complex and is required for ploidy-dependent cell growth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102: 18736-18741. view article

Dahiya, P., Milioni, D., Wells, B., Stacey, N., Roberts, K., McCann, M. C. 2005.
A RING-domain gene is expressed in different cell types of leaf-trace, stem and juvenile bundles in the stem vascular system of Zinnia. Plant Physiol. 138: 1383-1395. view article

Mourelatou, M., Doonan, J. H., McCann, M. C. 2004. Transition of G1 to early S phase may be required for zinnia mesophyll cells to trans-differentiate to tracheary elements. Planta. 220: 172-176. view article

Oomen, R. J. F. J., Tzitzikas, E. N., Bakx, E. J., Straatman-Engelen, I., Bush, M. S., McCann, M. C., Schols, H. A., Visser, R. G. F., Vincken, J-P. 2004. Modulation of the cellulose content of tuber cell walls by antisense expression of different potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) CesA clones. Phytochemistry. 65: 535-546. view article

Kemsley, E. K., Swinhoe, R. R., Smith, A. C., McCann, M. C., Wang, T. L. 2004.
Chemometrics can be applied to mechanical testing data to characterise stem toughness and stiffness in crop plants. J. Sci. Food Agric. 84: 966-976. view article

Vincken, J-P., Schols, H. A., Oomen, R. J. F. J., McCann, M. C., Ulvskov, P., Voragen, A. G. J., Visser, R. G. F. 2003. If homogalacturonan were a side chain of rhamnogalacturonan I. Implications for cell wall architecture. Plant Physiol. 132: 1781-1789. view article

Ryden, P., Sugimoto-Shirasu, K., Smith, A. C., Findlay, K., Reiter, W-D., McCann, M. C. 2003. Tensile properties of Arabidopsis cell walls depend on both a xyloglucan cross-linked microfibrillar network and rhamnogalacturonan II-borate complexes. Plant Physiol. 132: 1033-1040. view article

Carpita, N. C., McCann, M. C. 2002. The functions of cell wall polysaccharides in composition and architecture revealed through mutations. Plant Soil. 247: 71-80. view article

Ha, M. A., Mackinnon, I. M., Šturcová, A., Apperley, D. C., McCann, M. C., Turner, S. R., Jarvis, M. C. 2002. Structure of cellulose-deficient secondary cell walls from the irx3 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. Phytochemistry. 61: 7-14. view article

Milioni, D., Sado, P., Stacey, N. J., Roberts, K., McCann, M. C. 2002. Early gene expression associated with the commitment and differentiation of a plant tracheary element is revealed by cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis. Plant Cell. 14: 2813-2824. view article

Pagant, S., Bichet, A., Sugimoto, K., Lerouxel, O., Desprez, T., McCann, M. C., Lerouge, P., Vernhettes, S., Höfte, H. 2002. KOBITO1 encodes a novel plasma membrane protein necessary for normal synthesis of cellulose during cell expansion in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 14: 2001-2013. view article

Skjøt, M., Pauly, M., Bush, M. S., Borkhardt, B., McCann, M. C., Ulvskov, P. 2002.
Direct interference with Rhamnogalacturonan I biosynthesis in Gogi vesicles. Plant Physiol.. 129: 95-102. view article

Oomen, R. J. F. J., Doeswijk-Voragen, C. H. L., Bush, M. S., Vincken, J-P., Borkhardt, B., van den Broek, L. A. M., Corsar, J., Ulvskov, P., Voragen, A. G. J., McCann, M. C., Visser, R. G. F. 2002. In muro fragmentation of the rhamnogalacturonan I backbone in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) results in a reduction and altered location of the galactan and arabinan side-chains and abnormal periderm development. Plant J.. 30: 403-413. view article

Carpita, N. C., Defernez, M., Findlay, K., Wells, B., Shoue, D. A., Catchpole, G., Wilson, R. H., McCann, M. C. 2001. Cell wall architecture of the elongating maize coleoptile. Plant Physiol. 127: 551-565. view article

McCann, M. C., Bush, M., Milioni, D., Sado, P., Stacey, N. J., Catchpole, G., Defernez, M., Carpita, N. C., Hofte, H., Ulvskov, P., Wilson, R. H., Roberts, K. 2001. Approaches to understanding the functional architecture of the plant cell wall. Phytochemistry. 57: 811-821. view article

Schindelman, G., Morikami, A., Jung, J., Baskin, T. I., Carpita, N. C., Derbyshire, P., McCann, M. C., Benfey, P. N. 2001. COBRA encodes a putative GPI-anchored protein, which is polarly localized and necessary for oriented cell expansion in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev.. 15: 1115-1127. view article

Bush, M. S., Marry, M., Huxham, I. M., Jarvis, M. C., McCann, M. C. 2001. Developmental regulation of pectic epitopes during potato tuberisation. Planta. 213: 869-880. view article

Sørenson, S. O., Pauly, M., Bush, M. S., Skjot, M., McCann, M. C., Borkhardt, B., Ulvskov, P. 2000. Pectin engineering: Modification of potato pectin by in vivo expression of an endo-1,4-β-D-galactanase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97: 7639-7644. view article

Fagard, M., Desnos, T., Desprez, T., Goubet, F., Refregier, G., McCann, M. C., Rayon, C., Vernhettes, S., Höfte, H. 2000. PROCUSTE1 encodes a cellulose synthase required for normal cell elongation specifically in roots and dark-grown hypocotyls of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 12: 2409-2423. view article

Karlsson, M., Johansson, I., Bush, M., McCann, M. C., Larsson, C., Kjellbom, P. 2000. An abundant TIP expressed in mature highly vaculated cells. Plant J. 21: 83-90. view article

Marry, M., McCann, M. C., Kolpak, F., Stacey, N. J., Roberts, K. 2000. Extraction of pectic polysaccharides from sugar-beet cell walls. J. Food Sci. Agric. 80: 17-28. view article

Jarvis, M. C., McCann, M. C. 2000. Macromolecular biophysics of the plant cell wall: Concepts and methodology. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 38: 1-13. view article

Bush, M. S., McCann, M. C. 1999. Pectic epitopes are differentially distributed in the cell walls of potato (Solanum tuberosum) tubers. Physiol. Plant. 107: 201-213. view article

Chen, L. M., Carpita, N. C., Reiter, W. D., Wilson, R. H., Jeffries, C., McCann, M. C. 1998. A rapid method to screen for cell-wall mutants using discriminant analysis of Fourier transform infrared spectra. Plant Journal. 16: 385-392. view article

Domingo, C., Roberts, K., Stacey, N. J., Connerton, I., Ruíz-Teran, F., McCann, M. C. 1998. A pectate lyase from Zinnia elegans is auxin inducible. Plant J. 13: 17-28. view article

Carpita, N., McCann, M., Griffing, L. R. 1997. Back to the Walls. Plant Cell. 9: 281-282. view article

McCann, M. C., Chen, L., Roberts, K., Kemsley, E. K., Sene, C., Carpita, N. C., Stacey, N. J., Wilson, R. H. 1997. Infrared microspectroscopy: Sampling heterogeneity in plant cell wall composition and architecture. Physiol Plant. 100: 729-738. view article

Steele, N. M., McCann, M. C., Roberts, K. 1997.
Pectin modification in cell walls of ripening tomatoes occurs in distinct domains. Plant Physiol. 114: 373-381. view article

Chen, L., Wilson, R. H., McCann, M. C. 1997. Investigation of macromolecule orientation in dry and hydrated walls of single onion epidermal cells by FTIR microspectroscopy. J. Molec. Struct. 408: 257-260. view article

Chen, L., Wilson, R. H., McCann, M. C. 1997. Infra-red microspectroscopy of hydrated biological systems: design and construction of a new cell with atmospheric control for the study of plant cell walls. J. Microsc. 188: 62-72. view article

Carpita, N., McCann, M., Griffing, L. R. 1996. The plant extracellular matrix: news from the cells frontier. Plant Cell. 8: 1451-1463. view article

Foster, T. J., Ablett, S., McCann, M. C., Gidley, M. J. 1996. Mobility-resolved ¹³C-NMR spectroscopy of primary plant cell walls. Biopolymers. 39: 51-66. view article

McCann, M. C., Roberts, K., Wilson, R. H., Gidley, M. J., Gibeaut, D. M., Kim, J-B., Carpita, N. C. 1995. Old and new ways to probe plant cell-wall architecture. Can. J. Bot. 73: 103-113.

Stacey, N. J., Roberts, K., Carpita, N. C., Wells, B., McCann, M. C. 1995. Dynamic changes in cell surface molecules are very early events in the differentiation of mesophyll cells from Zinnia elegans into tracheary elements. Plant J. 8: 891-906. view article

McCann, M. C., Shi, J., Roberts, K., Carpita, N. C. 1994. Changes in pectin structure and localization during the growth of unadapted and NaCl-Adapted tobacco cells. Plant J. 5: 773-785. view article

Séné, C. F. B., McCann, M. C., Wilson, R. H., Grinter, R. 1994. Fourier-transform Raman and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy: an investigation of five higher plant cell walls and their components. Plant Physiol. 106: 1623-1631. view article

McCann, M. C., Stacey, N. J., Wilson, R., Roberts, K. 1993. Orientation of macromolecules in the walls of elongating carrot cells. J. Cell Sci. 106: 1347-1356. view article

Baldwin, T. C., McCann, M. C., Roberts, K. 1993. A novel hydroxyproline-deficient arabinogalactan protein secreted by susension-cultured cells of Daucus carota. Plant Physiol. 103: 115-123. view article