Xyloglucan: The Molecular Muscle of Trees
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It is proposed that, during cellulose crystallization, a part of the xyloglucan is trapped inside the crystal, inducing longitudinal tensile stress within it; another part of it is accessible and present between the G-layer and the outer wall layers.About:
This article is published in Annals of Botany.The article was published on 2008-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 132 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase & Xyloglucan.read more
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Plant cell wall polymers as precursors for biofuels
Markus Pauly,Kenneth Keegstra +1 more
TL;DR: Progress is being made in understanding the molecular basis of these natural variations in wall composition of biomass, which will be a valuable resource that can be used during efforts to generate designer biofuel crops using either selected breeding methods or recombinant DNA techniques.
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Xyloglucan and its interactions with other components of the growing cell wall.
Yong Bum Park,Daniel J. Cosgrove +1 more
TL;DR: These discoveries indicate that wall extensibility is less a matter of bulk viscoelasticity of the matrix polymers and more amatter of selective control of slippage and separation of microfibrils at specific and limited sites in the wall.
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Actuation systems in plants as prototypes for bioinspired devices
Ingo Burgert,Peter Fratzl +1 more
TL;DR: Different mechanisms of organ movement in plants are reviewed and design principles of such systems may be particularly useful for a biomimetic translation into active technical composites and moving devices.
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Towards the design of high-performance plant fibre composites
TL;DR: In this paper, the main types of plant cell walls used as polymer reinforcements are discussed and the relationship between their structures and properties, in constant link with potential associated composite, is specifically discussed.
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The XTH gene family: an update on enzyme structure, function, and phylogeny in xyloglucan remodeling.
Jens M. Eklöf,Harry Brumer +1 more
TL;DR: The XTH Gene Family : An Update on Enzyme Structure, Function, and Phylogeny in Xyloglucan Remodeling
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Xyloglucans in the Primary Cell Wall
TL;DR: Etude du metabolisme des xyloglucanes, including leur apparition, leur biosynthese, biodegradation, and leur organisation, is described in this article.
Wood Formation in Trees
Melanie Mauriat,Grégoire Le Provost,Phillippe Rozenberg,Sylvain Delzon,Nathalie Breda,Bruno Clair,Catherine Coutand,Jean-Christoph Domec,Thierry Fourcaud,Jacqueline Grima-Pettenati,Raúl Herrera,Jean-Charles Leplé,Nicolas Richet,Jean-François Trontin,Christophe Plomion +14 more
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Wood Formation in Trees
TL;DR: Wood is the most important natural and endlessly renewable source of energy and therefore has a major future role as an environmentally cost-effective alternative to burning fossils fuels.
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The maize primary cell wall microfibril: a new model derived from direct visualization.
Shi You Ding,Michael E. Himmel +1 more
TL;DR: A new molecular model consisting of a 36-glucan-chain elementary fibril, in which the 36- glucan chains form both crystalline and subcrystalline structures is proposed based on recently reported experimental evidence from plant cell wall biosynthesis.
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Unravelling cell wall formation in the woody dicot stem.
TL;DR: Populus is presented as a model system for the study of wood formation and high-resolution analysis of auxin distribution across cambial region tissues suggests that auxin provides positional information for the exit of cells from the meristem and probably also for the duration of cell expansion.