Tension wood is a specialized tissue of deciduous trees that functions in bending woody
stems to optimize their position in space. Tension wood fibers that develop on one side of the …

KORRIGAN1 (KOR1) is a membrane-bound cellulase implicated in cellulose biosynthesis.
PttCel9A1 from hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. × tremuloides Michx.) has high sequence …

Contractile cell walls are found in various plant organs and tissues such as tendrils, contractile
roots, and tension wood. The tension-generating mechanism is not known but is thought …

Cell wall hemicelluloses and pectins are O‐acetylated at specific positions, but the
significance of these substitutions is poorly understood. Using a transgenic approach, we …

Xyloglucan is the major hemicellulose of dicotyledon primary cell walls, affecting the load-bearing
framework with the participation of xyloglucan endo-transglycosylase/hydrolases (…

The vascular system develops in response to auxin flow as continuous strands of conducting
tissues arranged in regular spatial patterns. However, a mechanism governing their regular …

Xylem fibers are highly elongated cells that are key constituents of wood, play major
physiological roles in plants, comprise an important terrestrial carbon reservoir, and thus have …

Regularity and periodicity in the arrangements of organs in all groups of land plants raise
questions about the mechanisms underlying phyllotactic pattern formation. The initiation of the …

There currently exists a diverse array of molecular probes for the in situ localization of
polysaccharides, nucleic acids, and proteins in plant cells, including reporter enzyme strategies (…

In the shoot apical meristem (SAM) of Arabidopsis, PIN1-dependent polar auxin transport (PAT)
regulates two crucial developmental processes: organogenesis and vascular system …