Plant cell walls have the remarkable property of combining extreme tensile strength with
extensibility. The maintenance of such an exoskeleton creates nontrivial challenges for the …

Pectin is a high value functional food ingredient widely used as a gelling agent and
stabilizer. It is also an abundant, ubiquitous and multifunctional component of the cell walls …

Species that propagate by sexual reproduction actively guard against the fertilization of an
egg by multiple sperm (polyspermy). Flowering plants rely on pollen tubes to transport their …

Understanding the changes affecting the plant cell wall is a key element in addressing its
functional role in plant growth and in the response to stress. Pectins, which are the main …

The ability of a plant cell to expand is largely defined by the physical constraints imposed by
its cell wall. Accordingly, cell wall properties have to be regulated during development. The …

A collection of 130 new plant cell wall glycan-directed monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) was
generated with the aim of facilitating in-depth analysis of cell wall glycans. An enzyme-linked …

Three novel rat monoclonal antibodies, designated LM18, LM19 and LM20, were isolated
from screens for binding to Arabidopsis thaliana seed coat mucilage. The binding of these …

Pectin represents a very heterogeneous biopolymer whose functionality remains largely
puzzling. The link between the pectin fine structure and functional properties with relevance …

Xyloglucans are the main hemicellulosic polysaccharides found in the primary cell walls of
dicots and nongraminaceous monocots, where they are thought to interact with cellulose to …

Background Molecular probes are required to detect cell wall polymers in-situ to aid
understanding of their cell biology and several studies have shown that cell wall epitopes …