Structure and growth of plant cell walls

DJ Cosgrove - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Plant cells build nanofibrillar walls that are central to plant growth, morphogenesis and
mechanics. Starting from simple sugars, three groups of polysaccharides, namely, cellulose …

Dynamics of pectic homogalacturonan in cellular morphogenesis and adhesion, wall integrity sensing and plant development

J Du, CT Anderson, C **ao - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Homogalacturonan (HG) is the most abundant pectin subtype in plant cell walls. Although it
is a linear homopolymer, its modification states allow for complex molecular encoding. HG …

The cell biology of primary cell walls during salt stress

L Colin, F Ruhnow, JK Zhu, C Zhao, Y Zhao… - The plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Salt stress simultaneously causes ionic toxicity, osmotic stress, and oxidative stress, which
directly impact plant growth and development. Plants have developed numerous strategies …

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 …

The mechanics of plant morphogenesis

E Coen, DJ Cosgrove - Science, 2023 - science.org
Understanding the mechanism by which patterned gene activity leads to mechanical
deformation of cells and tissues to create complex forms is a major challenge for …

The role of auxin in cell wall expansion

M Majda, S Robert - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plant cells are surrounded by cell walls, which are dynamic structures displaying a strictly
regulated balance between rigidity and flexibility. Walls are fairly rigid to provide support and …

Diffuse growth of plant cell walls

DJ Cosgrove - Plant physiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
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Re-constructing our models of cellulose and primary cell wall assembly

DJ Cosgrove - Current opinion in plant biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cellulose interactions with the matrix depend on microfibril shape.•Physical data
point to a microfibril made of 18–24 chains, not 36 chains.•Recent structures for cellulose …

Xyloglucan and its interactions with other components of the growing cell wall

YB Park, DJ Cosgrove - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of xyloglucan and its ability to bind tightly to cellulose has dominated our
thinking about primary cell wall structure and its connection to the mechanism of cell …

An ecophysiological and developmental perspective on variation in vessel diameter

UG Hacke, R Spicer, SG Schreiber… - Plant, cell & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …