A new study uses computational modelling to determine how and why cotton quality develops.
Tag - cellulose
Rachel Shekar
Understanding the connections between plant hormones and cellulose synthesis in plants: still a great unknown!
Wang and colleagues review the relationships between key phytohormone classes and cellulose deposition in plant systems.
Liam Elliott
Plants have two ways of giving directions to cell wall builders
When getting cellulose to the cell wall, plant cells don't rely on just one set of directions.
Biochemical and physiological flexibility accompanies reduced cellulose biosynthesis in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
How do grasses make cellulose for cell walls? Brabham and colleagues have been examining the genes.
William Salter
ARP2/3 complex links cell wall assembly and auxin distribution
The protein complex ARP2/3 is responsible for nucleating actin, and its loss results in multiple defects in young seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana. Sahi et al. show that plants lacking the ARP2/3 complex have defects...
Alex Assiry
Effects of sucrose depletion on pollen tube growth
Pollen tubes are rapidly growing, photosynthetically inactive cells that need high rates of energy to support growth. Energy can derive from internal and external storage sources. The lack of carbon sources can cause...
botanyone
The cell biology of secondary cell wall biosynthesis
What is it that makes a plant get up and stay up? A new review looks at the creation of secondary cell walls. These microscopic features are the key to understanding the architecture of the plants we see around us.
Creative Destruction: How Death Leads to Function
Marcos Buckeridge explains how death and destruction in sugarcane roots can lead to the development of gas spaces, which improve root function.
Guest Author
Dragons, coconuts and skyscrapers…
Botanists aren't always genetic engineers. This week Nigel Chaffey finds some have branched out into civil engineering.
Nigel Chaffey
A fresh look at guard cell walls
Arguably, one of the best known ‘structure-function’ relationships in plant biology is the role played by cellulose microfibrils within the walls of the guard cells in stomatal opening. Stomata* are the controllable...
Cellulose research reaches new heights
A new study shows the effects that plant cellulose has on the weather!
Time for some carbs, now
Carbohydrates and plants means more than just sucrose, starch and cellulose.
Functional approach to predicting root decomposition
Much of plant biomass is in roots but we know much less about root properties that affect decomposition rates than we do about above-ground tissues. Aulen and Shipley measure decomposition rates of 17 species of trees...
