Abiotic stresses increasingly threaten existing ecological and agricultural systems across the
globe. Plant roots perceive these stresses in the soil and adapt their architecture …

Plant cell wall biosynthesis is a complex and tightly regulated process. The composition and
the structure of the cell wall should have a certain level of plasticity to ensure dynamic …

Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates various aspects of plant physiology, including promoting seed
dormancy and adaptive responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. In addition, ABA plays an …

Plant roots forage the soil for minerals whose concentrations can be orders of magnitude
away from those required for plant cell function. Selective uptake in multicellular organisms …

Water scarcity is one of the major causes of poor plant performance and limited crop yields
worldwide and it is the single most common cause of severe food shortage in developing …

Cutin, a polyester composed mostly of oxygenated fatty acids, serves as the framework of
the plant cuticle. The same types of cutin monomers occur across most plant lineages …

The periderm acts as armor protecting the plant's inner tissues from biotic and abiotic stress.
It forms during the radial thickening of plant organs such as stems and roots and replaces …

The plant cell wall, often the site of initial encounters between plants and their microbial
pathogens, is composed of a complex mixture of cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin …

Salt stress activates defence responses in plants, including changes in leaf surface
structure. Here, we showed that the transcriptional activation of cutin deposition and …

Suberin is a lipid-phenolic biopolyester deposited in the cell walls of certain boundary tissue
layers of plants, such as root endodermis, root and tuber peridermis, and seed coats …