Arabinogalactan-proteins (AGPs) are a large, complex, and highly diverse class of heavily
glycosylated proteins that belong to the family of cell wall hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins …

Glycosylation is a fundamental co-translational and/or post-translational modification
process where an attachment of sugars onto either proteins or lipids can alter their biological …

Polysaccharide methylation, especially that of pectin, is a common and important feature of
land plant cell walls. Polysaccharide methylation takes place in the Golgi apparatus and …

Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are a family of plant extracellular proteoglycans involved in
many physiological events. AGPs are often anchored to the extracellular side of the plasma …

Background Plums are one of the most economically important Rosaceae fruit crops and
comprise dozens of species distributed across the world. Until now, only limited genomic …

Seagrasses evolved from monocotyledonous land plants that returned to the marine habitat.
This transition was accomplished by substantial changes in cell wall composition, revealing …

Charophyte green algae (CGA) are assigned to be the closest relatives of land plants and
therefore enlighten processes in the colonization of terrestrial habitats. For the transition …

Polysaccharides are the most important renewable polymers on Earth and hold an
enormous potential for the production of ecofriendly functional materials. In addition to being …

Cotton provides the most abundant natural fiber for the textile industry. The mature cotton
fiber largely consists of secondary cell walls with the highest proportion of cellulose and a …

Embryogenesis is a brief but potentially critical phase in the tree life cycle for adaptive
phenotypic plasticity. Using somatic embryogenesis in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) …