This article recounts, from my perspective of four decades in this field, evolving paradigms of
primary cell wall structure and the mechanism of surface enlargement of growing cell walls …

The advent of user-friendly instruments for measuring force/deflection curves of plant
surfaces at high spatial resolution has resulted in a recent outpouring of reports of the …

Plant stature and development are governed by cell proliferation and directed cell growth.
These parameters are determined largely by cell wall characteristics. Cellulose microfibrils …

During growth and morphogenesis, plant cells respond to mechanical stresses resulting
from spatiotemporal changes in the cell wall that bear high internal turgor pressure …

Variation in xylem vessel diameter is one of the most important parameters when evaluating
plant water relations. This review provides a synthesis of the ecophysiological implications …

Stomata are cellular breathing pores on leaves that open and close to absorb photosynthetic
carbon dioxide and to restrict water loss through transpiration, respectively. Grasses …

Background Adventitious root (AR) formation in excised plant parts is a bottleneck for
survival of isolated plant fragments. AR formation plays an important ecological role and is a …

Adventitious root (AR) formation in cuttings is a multiphase developmental process, resulting
from wounding at the cutting site and isolation from the resource and signal network of the …

How organs reach their final shape is a central yet unresolved question in developmental
biology. Here we investigate whether mechanical cues contribute to this process. We …

Pavement cells form wavy interlocking patterns in the leaf epidermis of many plants. We use
computational mechanics to simulate the morphogenetic process based on microtubule …