HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Abstract. Chitin and chitosan are two related polysaccharides that provide important structural stability to fungal cell walls. Often embedded deeply within the cell wall structure, these molecules anchor other components at the cell surface.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chitin is an essential component of the cell walls and septa of all pathogenic fungi, and occurs in the cyst walls of pathogenic amoebae, the egg-shells and gut lining of parasitic nematodes and the exoskeletons of invertebrate vectors of human disease including mosquitoes, sand flies, ticks and snails.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chitin, a biopolymer of N-acetylglucosamine with some glucosamine, is the main component of the cell walls of fungi, the exoskeletons of arthropods such as crustaceans and insects, the radulas of mollusks and the beaks of cephalopods.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chitin is composed of linear chains of -(1, 4) N-acetylglucosamine and represents the most ancestral structural polysaccharide in the fungal cell wall. Families of chitin synthases responsible for the synthesis of chitin have been identified bioinformatically, with molecular weights of 100 to 130 kDa.