Plants are sessile organisms and, in order to defend themselves against exogenous (a)
biotic constraints, they synthesize an array of secondary metabolites which have important …

The softening that accompanies ripening of commercially important fruits exacerbates
damage incurred during shipping and handling and increases pathogen susceptibility. Thus …

From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally
located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo …

Deciphering the cellular and molecular interactions that drive disease within the tissue
microenvironment holds promise for discovering drug targets of the future. In order to …

Organ detachment requires cell separation within abscission zones (AZs). Physiological
studies have established that ethylene and auxin contribute to cell separation control …

Independent antisense down‐regulation of 10 individual enzymes in the monolignol
pathway has generated a series of otherwise isogenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa) lines with …

A cinnamoyl‐CoA reductase 1 knockout mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana was investigated for
the consequences of lignin synthesis perturbation on the assembly of the cell walls.• The …

Identification and quantification of metabolites occurring within specific cell types or single
cells of plants and other organisms is of particular interest for natural product chemistry …

The phylloplane, or leaf surface, is an interkingdom crossroads between plants and
microorganisms, and secretion of antimicrobial biochemicals to aerial surfaces is thought to …

Laser capture microdissection (LCM) allows the precise procurement of enriched cell
populations from a heterogeneous tissue, or live cell culture, under direct microscopic …