Giampiero Cai

TL;DR: The present review analyzes the dual property of plant cell walls, i.e., barrier and target of heavy metals, by taking Cd toxicity as example, and compares the wall-related mechanisms in early- and later-diverging land plants, by considering the diversity in cell wall composition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of heavy metal-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) on plant cell wall-related processes and the stimulatory/inhibitory effects of ROS on plant secondary metabolism were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the recent literature on the production of representatives of three plant secondary metabolite classes: artemisinin (a sesquiterpene), lignans (phenolic compounds) and caffeine (an alkaloid).

TL;DR: Actin filaments and endomembrane dynamics are critical for the distribution of callOSE synthase and cellulose synthase, showing that enzymes are transported through Golgi bodies and/or vesicles moving along actin Filaments, whereas microtubules appear to be critical in the positioning of callose synth enzyme in distal regions and around callose plugs.

TL;DR: Different approaches have allowed the roles of several cytoskeletal components to be deciphered, and it is now possible to speculate how they might interact within the pollen tubes.