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Plant cell walls.

Herman Höfte, +1 more
- 11 Sep 2017 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 17
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This Primer discusses how plant cells have solved the problem of balancing strength and extensibility, allowing them to support often very large increases in volume and to develop a broad variety of shapes.
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This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2017-09-11 and is currently open access. It has received 247 citations till now.

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The Role of Auxin in Cell Wall Expansion.

TL;DR: This update elucidates the connection between hormonal signaling and cell wall synthesis and deposition and analyzes downstream targets of transcriptional auxin signaling, which are related to the cell wall and could be linked to acid growth and the action of wall-loosening proteins.
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Cellulosic ethanol production: Progress, challenges and strategies for solutions

TL;DR: Challenges and strategies for solutions are highlighted and unit integration and system optimization are needed to maximize economic and environmental benefits for cellulosic ethanol production.
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Antimicrobial activity of photocatalysts: Fundamentals, mechanisms, kinetics and recent advances

TL;DR: An overview of the state of the art commercial products utilising photocatalytic antibacterial property is presented and the importance of operational parameters on the inactivation kinetics is summarised.
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Phenylpropanoid Pathway Engineering: An Emerging Approach towards Plant Defense

TL;DR: This review portrays the current progress and challenges for phenylpropanoid pathway-based resistance from the current prospective to provide a deeper understanding of the pathway.
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Cell wall integrity maintenance during plant development and interaction with the environment

TL;DR: Current knowledge of plant cell wall integrity signalling is reviewed using selected recent findings and how the cell wall–plasma membrane interphase can act as a venue for sensing changes in the physical forces affecting plant development and stress responses is highlighted.
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The Cell Biology of Cellulose Synthesis

TL;DR: This review summary and discussion of cellulose synthesis and regulatory aspects of the cellulose synthase complex, focusing on Arabidopsis thaliana, are summarized and discussed.
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A Mechanism for Localized Lignin Deposition in the Endodermis

TL;DR: The findings in Arabidopsis provide a simple mechanistic model of how plant cells regulate lignin formation with subcellular precision and speculate that scaffolding of NADPH oxidases to the downstream targets of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) that they produce might be a widespread mechanism to ensure specificity and sub cellular precision of ROS action within the extracellular matrix.
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Plant cell walls throughout evolution: towards a molecular understanding of their design principles

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive plant cell wall model for the purpose of commercially viable lignocellulosic biofuel production as well as for the timber, textile, and paper industries.
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Re-constructing our models of cellulose and primary cell wall assembly

TL;DR: Computational results indicate that xyloglucan binds tightest to the hydrophobic surface of cellulose microfibrils, and wall extensibility may be controlled at limited regions (‘biomechanical hotspots’) where cellulose–cellulose contacts are made, potentially mediated by trace amounts of xylogucan.
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Plant cell walls throughout evolution: towards a molecular understanding of their design principles

TL;DR: Comprehensive plant cell wall models will aid in the re-design of plant cell walls for the purpose of commercially viable lignocellulosic biofuel production as well as for the timber, textile, and paper industries.
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How to plants strengthen the cell wall?

Plants strengthen their cell walls by depositing secondary wall layers with optimized composition and architecture to provide mechanical support and resist negative pressure.

How much energy is used in cell wall thickening of plants?

The amount of energy used in cell wall thickening of plants is not mentioned in the provided information.

Why do plant need secondary cell wall?

Plants need secondary cell walls to provide mechanical support, strengthen vascular tissue, increase surface area for solute exchange, and allow elastic deformation.