Wax biosynthesis in response to danger: its regulation upon abiotic and biotic stress

M Lewandowska, A Keyl, I Feussner - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The plant cuticle is the first physical barrier between land plants and their terrestrial
environment. It consists of the polyester scaffold cutin embedded and sealed with organic …

The formation and function of plant cuticles

TH Yeats, JKC Rose - Plant physiology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The plant cuticle is an extracellular hydrophobic layer that covers the aerial epidermis of all
land plants, providing protection against desiccation and external environmental stresses …

Advances in the understanding of cuticular waxes in Arabidopsis thaliana and crop species

SB Lee, MC Suh - Plant cell reports, 2015 - Springer
The aerial parts of plants are covered with a cuticle, a hydrophobic layer consisting of cutin
polyester and cuticular waxes that protects them from various environmental stresses …

Suberin: biosynthesis, regulation, and polymer assembly of a protective extracellular barrier

SJ Vishwanath, C Delude, F Domergue, O Rowland - Plant cell reports, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Extending the story of very-long-chain fatty acid elongation

TM Haslam, L Kunst - Plant science, 2013 - Elsevier
Very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) are essential molecules produced by all plant cells,
and are components or precursors of numerous specialized metabolites synthesized in …

Regulatory mechanisms underlying cuticular wax biosynthesis

SB Lee, MC Suh - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plants are sessile organisms that have developed hydrophobic cuticles that cover their
aerial epidermal cells to protect them from terrestrial stresses. The cuticle layer is mainly …

An ancestral role for 3-KETOACYL-COA SYNTHASE3 as a negative regulator of plant cuticular wax synthesis

H Huang, X Yang, M Zheng, Z Chen, Z Yang… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The plant cuticle, a structure primarily composed of wax and cutin, forms a continuous
coating over most aerial plant surfaces. The cuticle plays important roles in plant tolerance to …

Cuticular wax biosynthesis is up-regulated by the MYB94 transcription factor in Arabidopsis

SB Lee, MC Suh - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The aerial parts of all land plants are covered with hydrophobic cuticular wax layers that act
as the first barrier against the environment. The MYB94 transcription factor gene is …

Arabidopsis Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis Is Negatively Regulated by the DEWAX Gene Encoding an AP2/ERF-Type Transcription Factor

YS Go, H Kim, HJ Kim, MC Suh - The Plant Cell, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The aerial parts of plants are protected from desiccation and other stress by surface cuticular
waxes. The total cuticular wax loads and the expression of wax biosynthetic genes are …

[HTML][HTML] Apoplastic diffusion barriers in Arabidopsis

C Nawrath, L Schreiber, RB Franke… - The Arabidopsis Book …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During the development of Arabidopsis and other land plants, diffusion barriers are formed
in the apoplast of specialized tissues within a variety of plant organs. While the cuticle of the …