Cell wall metabolism in response to abiotic stress

HL Gall, F Philippe, JM Domon, F Gillet, J Pelloux… - Plants, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the responses of the plant cell wall to several abiotic stresses
including drought, flooding, heat, cold, salt, heavy metals, light, and air pollutants. The …

Plant cell wall extensibility: connecting plant cell growth with cell wall structure, mechanics, and the action of wall-modifying enzymes

DJ Cosgrove - Journal of experimental botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Evolving views of pectin biosynthesis

MA Atmodjo, Z Hao, D Mohnen - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Recent progress in the identification and characterization of pectin biosynthetic proteins and
the discovery of pectin domain–containing proteoglycans are changing our view of how …

Low phosphate activates STOP1-ALMT1 to rapidly inhibit root cell elongation

C Balzergue, T Dartevelle, C Godon, E Laugier… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Environmental cues profoundly modulate cell proliferation and cell elongation to inform and
direct plant growth and development. External phosphate (Pi) limitation inhibits primary root …

Comparative structure and biomechanics of plant primary and secondary cell walls

DJ Cosgrove, MC Jarvis - Frontiers in plant science, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Recent insights into the physical biology of plant cell walls are reviewed, summarizing the
essential differences between primary and secondary cell walls and identifying crucial gaps …

The multifaceted role of pectin methylesterase inhibitors (PMEIs)

A Wormit, B Usadel - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plant cell walls are complex and dynamic structures that play important roles in growth and
development, as well as in response to stresses. Pectin is a major polysaccharide of cell …

Insights into the evolution of multicellularity from the sea lettuce genome

O De Clerck, SM Kao, KA Bogaert, J Blomme… - Current biology, 2018 - cell.com
We report here the 98.5 Mbp haploid genome (12,924 protein coding genes) of Ulva
mutabilis, a ubiquitous and iconic representative of the Ulvophyceae or green seaweeds …

Relating the mechanics of the primary plant cell wall to morphogenesis

AJ Bidhendi, A Geitmann - Journal of experimental botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Regulation of the mechanical properties of the cell wall is a key parameter used by plants to
control the growth behavior of individual cells and tissues. Modulation of the mechanical …

Hitting the wall—sensing and signaling pathways involved in plant cell wall remodeling in response to abiotic stress

L Novaković, T Guo, A Bacic, A Sampathkumar… - Plants, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plant cells are surrounded by highly dynamic cell walls that play important roles regulating
aspects of plant development. Recent advances in visualization and measurement of cell …

[HTML][HTML] Catalysts of plant cell wall loosening

DJ Cosgrove - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The growing cell wall in plants has conflicting requirements to be strong enough to withstand
the high tensile forces generated by cell turgor pressure while selectively yielding to those …