Plant cell walls consist of carbohydrate, protein, and aromatic compounds and are essential
to the proper growth and development of plants. The carbohydrate components make up∼ …

▪ Abstract Pollen tubes and root hairs are highly elongated, cylindrically shaped cells whose
polarized growth permits them to explore the environment for the benefit of the entire plant …

Advances in plant cell molecular biology have considerably increased our understanding of
pollen-pistil barriers, particularly those operated by incompatibility mechanisms, and, at the …

Pollen tube growth attracts our attention as a model system for studying cell elongation in
plants. The process is fast, it is confined to the tip of the tube, and it is crucial for sexual …

The cell wall is one of the structural key players regulating pollen tube growth, since plant
cell expansion depends on an interplay between intracellular driving forces and the …

Plant cell growth is controlled by the balance between turgor pressure and the extensibility
of the cell wall. Several distinct classes of wall polysaccharides and their interactions …

While callose is a well-known permeability barrier and leak sealant in plant cells, it is largely
unknown whether this cell wall polymer can also serve as a load-bearing structure. Since …

The occurrence of oscillatory behaviours in living cells can be viewed as a visible
consequence of stable, regulatory homeostatic cycles. Therefore, they may be used as …

Mutations in the TUMOROUS SHOOT DEVELOPMENT2 (TSD2) gene reduce cell adhesion,
and in strongly affected individuals cause non‐coordinated shoot development that leads to …

The only defined physiological role of boron in plants is as a cross-linking molecule
involving reversible covalent bonds with cis-diols on either side of borate. Boronic acids …