Plant cell walls consist of carbohydrate, protein, and aromatic compounds and are essential
to the proper growth and development of plants. The carbohydrate components make up∼ …

Recent progress in the identification and characterization of pectin biosynthetic proteins and
the discovery of pectin domain–containing proteoglycans are changing our view of how …

The life cycle and development of plants requires the biosynthesis, deposition, and
degradation of cell wall matrix polysaccharides. The structures of the diverse cell wall matrix …

Pectin is one of the three key cell wall polysaccharides in land plants and consists of three
major structural domains: homogalacturonan, rhamnogalacturonan I (RG-I) and RG-II …

Galacturonosyltransferases (GalATs) are required for the synthesis of pectin, a family of
complex polysaccharides present in the cell walls of all land plants. We report the …

A novel acidic polysaccharide, nostoflan, was isolated from a terrestrial cyanobacterium,
Nostoc flagelliforme. Nostoflan exhibited a potent anti-herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) …

The pollen tube is a fast tip-growing cell carrying the two sperm cells to the ovule allowing
the double fertilization process and seed setting. To succeed in this process, the spatial and …

In the present review, we describe current knowledge about synthesis of borate crosslinked
rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II) and it physiological roles. RG-II is a portion of pectic …

Homogalacturonan (HG) is a pectic glycan in the plant cell wall that contributes to plant
growth and development and cell wall structure and function, and interacts with other …

In flowering plants, pollen tubes undergo a journey that starts in the stigma and ends in the
ovule with the delivery of the sperm cells to achieve double fertilization. The pollen cell wall …