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Phenotypic Cuticle Plasticity at High Elevation: Is Microstructure and Microchemistry Related to Water Permeability? [PDF]

Plant Cell Environ
ABSTRACT Kalmia procumbens (K. procumbens), a ubiquitous alpine dwarf shrub, thrives at high elevations, particularly on wind‐exposed sites. Plants on contrasting north‐ and southeast‐facing slopes at ~2237 m elevation exhibit differences in leaf colour and growth, suggesting acclimative strategies.
Tiloca G, Buchner O, Stegner M, Gierlinger N, Neuner G.   +4 more
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Exploring Plant Surface Chemical Variability: Lettuce Leaf as Model. [PDF]

Physiol Plant
ABSTRACT The plant cuticle has been traditionally believed to be a continuous lipophilic layer covering most aerial plant surfaces, but recent methodological advances based on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) enabled mapping the distribution of hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas in the papillae and pavement cells of rose petals and olive leaf trichomes ...
Galindo-Bernabeu A, Sáenz-Arce G, Guaillazaca-Gonzalez BS, González-Illanes T, Ferrer-Roca C, Murcia-Mascarós S, Moreno AG, Cros A, Colchero J, Fernández V.   +9 more
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First line of defence: Eucalyptus leaf waxes influence infection by an aggressive fungal leaf pathogen. [PDF]

Plant Biol (Stuttg)
Leaf wax compounds of Eucalyptus modulate the germination and infection of the leaf blight pathogen Teratosphaeria destructans. Abstract Leaf epicuticular waxes provide important anatomical and chemical defences against fungi that infect leaves. In this study we analysed the leaf wax composition of Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus urophylla hybrids with
Solís M, Naidoo S, Wingfield MJ, Joubert JC, Hammerbacher A.   +4 more
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Project ChemicalBlooms: Collaborating with citizen scientists to survey the chemical diversity and phylogenetic distribution of plant epicuticular wax blooms. [PDF]

Plant Direct
Abstract Plants use chemistry to overcome diverse challenges. A particularly striking chemical trait that some plants possess is the ability to synthesize massive amounts of epicuticular wax that accumulates on the plant's surfaces as a white coating visible to the naked eye.
Nguyen LTD, Groth N, Mondloch K, Cahoon EB, Jones K, Busta L.   +5 more
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Arabidopsis DREB26/ERF12 and its close relatives regulate cuticular wax biosynthesis under drought stress condition. [PDF]

Plant J
SUMMARY Land plants have evolved a hydrophobic cuticle on the surface of aerial organs as an adaptation to ensure survival in terrestrial environments. Cuticle is mainly composed of lipids, namely cutin and intracuticular wax, with epicuticular wax deposited on plant surface.
Urano K, Oshima Y, Ishikawa T, Kajino T, Sakamoto S, Sato M, Toyooka K, Fujita M, Kawai-Yamada M, Taji T, Maruyama K, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Shinozaki K.   +12 more
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In a Different Light: Irradiation-Induced Cuticular Wax Accumulation Fails to Reduce Cuticular Transpiration. [PDF]

Plant Cell Environ
ABSTRACT The cuticle, an extracellular hydrophobic layer impregnated with waxy lipids, serves as the primary interface between plant leaves and their environment and is thus subject to external cues. A previous study on poplar leaves revealed that environmental conditions outdoors promoted the deposition of about 10‐fold more cuticular wax compared to ...
Herzig L, Uellendahl K, Malkowsky Y, Schreiber L, Grünhofer P.   +4 more
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A thinner jacket for frosty and windy climates? Global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness and its environmental associations. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Plant cuticles protect the interior tissues from ambient hazards, including desiccation, UV light, physical wear, herbivores and pathogens. Consequently, cuticle properties are shaped by evolutionary selection. We compiled a global dataset of leaf cuticle thickness (CT) and accompanying leaf traits for 1212 species, mostly angiosperms, from 293
Li X, Burrows GE, Dong N, Jordan GJ, Kattge J, Lenz TI, Niinemets Ü, Onoda Y, Poorter H, Sack L, Villar R, Westoby M, Wright IJ.   +12 more
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Effects of Different Postharvest Treatments on Cuticle Microstructure and Components of 'Nanfeng' Mandarins (Citrus reticulata Blanco cv. Kinokuni) During Cold Storage

Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2022
The cuticle plays an important role in postharvest physiology of fruit, and its microstructure and components could be affected by different postharvest storage conditions.
Sheng CHEN, Shuai GE, Yaohua LUO, Lüzhu YANG, Shuang HE, Rongrong WANG, Shenghua DING   +6 more
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A Proposed Method for Simultaneous Measurement of Cuticular Transpiration From Different Leaf Surfaces in Camellia sinensis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
The plant cuticle is the major barrier that limits unrestricted water loss and hence plays a critical role in plant drought tolerance. Due to the presence of stomata on the leaf abaxial surface, it is technically challenging to measure abaxial cuticular ...
Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiaobing Chen, Zhenghua Du, Wenjing Zhang, Ananta Raj Devkota, Zijian Chen, Changsong Chen, Weijiang Sun, Mingjie Chen, Mingjie Chen, Mingjie Chen   +12 more
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Modification of the epicuticular waxes of plant leaves due to increased sunlight intensity

Biosystems Diversity, 2020
Climatic changes observed around the world in recent years are associated with an increase in the solar radiation intensity and temperature and reduction in the humidity.
Y. V. Lykholat, N. A. Khromykh, O. O. Didur, A. A. Alexeyeva, T. Y. Lykholat   +4 more
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