The ability of a plant cell to expand is largely defined by the physical constraints imposed by
its cell wall. Accordingly, cell wall properties have to be regulated during development. The …

Plants produce a huge diversity of specialized metabolites (SM) throughout their life cycle
that play important physiological and ecological functions. SM can protect plants and seeds …

Starch constitutes the major source of calories in the human diet. Over 600 commercial
products are generated from starch both for food and also non-food uses. Plant Starch can be …

The composition and permeability of the cuticle has a large influence on its ability to protect
the plant against various forms of biotic and abiotic stress. WAX INDUCER1 (WIN1) and …

Plant organs are produced from meristems in a characteristic pattern. This pattern, referred
to as phyllotaxis, is thought to be generated by local gradients of an information molecule, …

Pectins are a family of complex cell‐wall polysaccharides, the biosynthesis of which remains
poorly understood. We identified dwarf mutants with reduced cell adhesion at a novel locus, …

We have developed a novel procedure for the rapid classification and identification of
Arabidopsis mutants with altered cell wall architecture based on Fourier‐Transform Infrared (FT‐IR…

A central question in developmental biology concerns the mechanism of generation and
maintenance of cell polarity, because these processes are essential for many cellular functions …

Brassinosteroid (BR) signaling is required for normal plant growth as shown by the dwarf
phenotype of loss-of-function BR biosynthetic or perception mutants. Despite a detailed …

A mutant of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) with reduced abscisic acid (ABA) production (sitiens)
exhibits increased resistance to the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea. This …