The walls surrounding the cells of all land-based plants provide mechanical support
essential for growth and development as well as protection from adverse environmental …

Highlights•Carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) display diverse specificity and
structure.•A refined classification of CBM types is presented.•Advances in understanding …

Xylan is the most abundant non‐cellulosic polysaccharide in grass cell walls, and it has
important structural roles. The name glucuronoarabinoxylan (GAX) is used to describe this …

Hemicellulosic polysaccharides built of β‐1, 4‐linked mannose units have been found
throughout the plant kingdom and have numerous industrial applications. Here, I review …

Bamboo is one of the mostly fast growing natural resources and has great potential to be
used as a valuable feedstock for biorefinery. The hemicelluloses, next to cellulose, represent …

Microarrays are powerful tools for high throughput analysis, and hundreds or thousands of
molecular interactions can be assessed simultaneously using very small amounts of …

How cell wall elasticity, plasticity, and time‐dependent extension (creep) relate to one
another, to plant cell wall structure and to cell growth remain unsettled topics. To examine …

In Arabidopsis thaliana, lateral roots initiate in a process preceded by periodic gene
expression known as the root clock. We identified the vesicle-trafficking regulator GNOM and …

In the last three decades, more than 200 monoclonal antibodies have been raised against
most classes of plant cell wall polysaccharides by different laboratories worldwide. These …

Pectin is a component of the cell walls of plants that is composed of acidic sugar-containing
backbones with neutral sugar-containing side chains. It functions in cell adhesion and wall …