Land plants are exposed to not only biotic stresses such as pathogen infection and
herbivore wounding, but abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, and salt. Elaborate …

The plant cuticle is an extracellular hydrophobic layer that covers the aerial epidermis of all
land plants, providing protection against desiccation and external environmental stresses …

Cutin and suberin are hydrophobic lipid biopolyester components of the cell walls of
specialized plant tissue and cell-types, where they facilitate adaptation to terrestrial habitats …

Cutin, a polyester composed mostly of oxygenated fatty acids, serves as the framework of
the plant cuticle. The same types of cutin monomers occur across most plant lineages …

Acyl lipids in Arabidopsis and all other plants have a myriad of diverse functions. These
include providing the core diffusion barrier of the membranes that separates cells and …

Salt stress activates defence responses in plants, including changes in leaf surface
structure. Here, we showed that the transcriptional activation of cutin deposition and …

Being by far the largest family of enzymes to support plant metabolism, the cytochrome
P450s (CYPs) constitute an excellent reporter of metabolism architecture and evolution. The …

The surface of most aerial plant organs is covered with a cuticle that provides protection
against multiple stress factors including dehydration. Interest on the nature of this external …

There are 244 cytochrome P450 genes (and 28 pseudogenes) in the Arabidopsis genome.
P450s thus form one of the largest gene families in plants. Contrary to what was initially …

The symbiotic association between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is almost
ubiquitous within the plant kingdom [1], and the early stages of the association are controlled …