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Highlights•Cellulose microfibrils have hydrophobic and hydrophilic faces.•The different
cellulose faces may facilitate formation of anisotropic lamellae.•Microfibrils move differently …

The shape and function of plant cells are often highly interdependent. The puzzle-shaped
cells that appear in the epidermis of many plants are a striking example of a complex cell …

Plant epidermal cell walls maintain the mechanical integrity of plants and restrict organ
growth. Mechanical analyses can give insights into wall structure and are inputs for …

How cell wall elasticity, plasticity, and time‐dependent extension (creep) relate to one
another, to plant cell wall structure and to cell growth remain unsettled topics. To examine …

As the outermost layer of plants, the epidermis serves as a critical interface between plants
and the environment. During leaf development, the differentiation of specialized epidermal …

The Arabidopsis root offers good opportunities to investigate how regulated cellular growth
shapes different tissues and organs, a key question in developmental biology. Along the …

Plant cell deformations are driven by cell pressurization and mechanical constraints
imposed by the nanoscale architecture of the cell wall, but how these factors are controlled …

Cell-to-cell heterogeneity prevails in many systems, as exemplified by cell growth, although
the origin and function of such heterogeneity are often unclear. In plants, growth is physically …

How is time encoded into organ growth and morphogenesis? We address this question by
investigating heteroblasty, where leaf development and form are modified with progressing …