The seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana become encapsulated by a layer of mucilage when imbibed. This polysaccharide-rich hydrogel is constituted of two layers, an outer layer that can be easily extracted with water and an inner layer that must be examined in situ in order to study its properties and structure in a non-destructive manner or disintegrated through hydrolysis or physical means in order to analyze its constituents. Mucilage production is an adaptive trait and we have exploited 19 natural accessions previously found to have atypical and varied outer mucilage characteristics. A detailed study using biochemical, histological and Time-Domain NMR analyses has been used to generate three related datasets covering 33 traits measured in four biological replicates. This data will be a rich resource for genetic, biochemical, structural and functional analyses investigating mucilage constituent polysaccharides or their role as adaptive traits.

拟南芥的种子在吸收后会被一层粘液包裹。这种富含多糖的水凝胶由两层组成，外层可以很容易地用水提取，内层必须进行原位检查，以便以非破坏性方式研究其性质和结构，或者通过水解或分解来分解。物理手段来分析其成分。粘液产生是一种适应性特征，我们已经开发了 19 种先前发现具有非典型且多样化的外部粘液特性的天然种质。使用生物化学、组织学和时域 NMR 分析进行的详细研究已用于生成三个相关数据集，涵盖在四个生物重复中测量的 33 个性状。这些数据将为研究粘液成分多糖或其作为适应性特征的作用的遗传、生化、结构和功能分析提供丰富的资源。