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<div style="max-width:22em; word-wrap:break-word; padding-left:1.7em;">(1→3)-β-<small>D</small>-Glucan</div>
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<td>(C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>5</sub>)<sub>n</sub>
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<p><b>Callose</b> is a plant <a href="Polysaccharide" title="Polysaccharide">polysaccharide</a>. Its production is due to the glucan synthase-like gene (GLS) in various places within a plant. It is produced to act as a temporary cell wall in response to stimuli such as stress or damage.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Callose is composed of <a href="Glucose" title="Glucose">glucose</a> residues linked together through β-1,3-linkages, and is termed a <a href="Beta-glucan" title="Beta-glucan">β-glucan</a>. It is thought to be manufactured at the <a href="Plant_cell_wall" class="mw-redirect" title="Plant cell wall">cell wall</a> by callose synthases and is degraded by β-1,3-<a href="Glucanase" title="Glucanase">glucanases</a>. Callose is very important for the permeability of <a href="Plasmodesmata" class="mw-redirect" title="Plasmodesmata">plasmodesmata</a> (Pd) in plants; the plant's permeability is regulated by plasmodesmata callose (PDC). PDC is made by callose synthases and broken down by β-1,3-glucanases (BGs). The amount of callose that is built up at the plasmodesmatal neck, which is brought about by the interference of callose synthases (CalSs) and β-1,3-glucanases, determines the conductivity of the plasmodesmata.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Callose is laid down at <a href="Plasmodesmata" class="mw-redirect" title="Plasmodesmata">plasmodesmata</a>, at the <a href="Cell_plate" title="Cell plate">cell plate</a> during <a href="Cytokinesis" title="Cytokinesis">cytokinesis</a>, and during <a href="Pollen" title="Pollen">pollen</a> development. Endothecium contains a substance callose, which makes it thicker. Callose is produced in response to wounding, infection by pathogens,<sup id="cite_ref-VCRB2012b2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCRB2012b2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Aluminium" title="Aluminium">aluminium</a>, and <a href="Abscisic_acid" title="Abscisic acid">abscisic acid</a>. When there is wounding in the plant tissue, it is fixed by the deposition of callose at the plasmodesmata and cell wall; this process happens within minutes after damage. Even though callose is not a constitutional component of the plant's cell wall, it is related to the plant's defense mechanism.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Deposits often appear on the <a href="Sieve_plates" class="mw-redirect" title="Sieve plates">sieve plates</a> at the end of the growing season.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Callose also forms immediately around the developing <a href="Meiocyte" title="Meiocyte">meiocytes</a> and tetrads of sexually reproducing <a href="Angiosperm" class="mw-redirect" title="Angiosperm">angiosperms</a> but is not found in related <a href="Apomixis" title="Apomixis">apomictic</a> taxa.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Callose deposition at the cell wall has been suggested as an early marker for direct <a href="Somatic_embryogenesis" title="Somatic embryogenesis">somatic embryogenesis</a> from cortical and epidermal cells of <i>Cichorium</i> hybrids.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temporary callose walls are also thought to be a barrier between a cell and its environment, while the cell is undergoing a genetic programming that allows it to <a href="Cellular_differentiation" title="Cellular differentiation">differentiate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is because callose walls can be found around <a href="Nucellar_embryony" title="Nucellar embryony">nucellar embryos</a> during <a href="Nucellar_embryony" title="Nucellar embryony">Nucellar embryony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Curdlan" title="Curdlan">Curdlan</a></li></ul>
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