DISCOVERY OF NEW MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR BIOSYNTHESIS COULD LEAD TO IMPORTANT...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......pectin matrix in cell walls. Now, in what...breakthrough in pectin biosynthesis," a team of researchers...present in the cell walls of all land plants...polysaccharides of the cell wall has, until...remain regarding pectin biosynthesis, "the ...

A cross-polarization, magic-angel-spinning, 13C-nuclear-magnetic-resonance...

Plant Physiology;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......polymers in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) cell walls. Proton T^sub 1P^ decay and crosspolarization...of beet arabinans in solution. These cell walls contained very small amounts of hemicellulosic...hemicelluloses. Cellulose microfibrils in the beet cell walls were stable in the absence ...

Use of chitinase and chitosanase to form sphaeroplasts from Pilobolus...

Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science;  August 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......such as DNA and protein, from cells with cell walls creates a special challenge because the...the cell itself. One method to remove cell walls is to use enzymes to break down cell...cellular contents from cells with resistant cell walls. Mycelia are used frequently as the source...

Restoration of Mature Etiolated Cucumber Hypocotyl Cell Wall...

Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Mature plant cell walls lose their ability to expand and become...expansin-induced extension in mature cell walls in vitro. Recombinant pectate lyase...of more methyl-esterified pectin in cell walls of the apical segments and less esterified...

Simple sugars make plant cells strong.

United Press International;  January 21, 2004 ;     196 words ......sugars act as the biological signals plant cell walls need to maintain their strength. This...enhancing nutritional fibers in plant cell walls without changing other plant structural...learn as much as possible about how plant cell walls are created and evolve, he said. Plant...

A constitutive theory for rigid polyurethane foam.

Polymer Engineering and Science;  March 15, 1995 ;     700+ words ......in tension beyond its elastic limit, cell walls are damaged and the foam quickly fractures...nearly constant. In this regime, some cell walls are compressed until they buckle, while other cell walls are stretched until they crack. When...

Distribution of fucose-containing xyloglucans in cell walls of the murl...

Plant Physiology;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the mur1 root is specific to particular cell walls and cell types. CCRC-M1 labels all cell walls at the apex of primary roots 2 d and older...mature lateral roots, but does not bind to cell walls in lateral root initials. Labeling with...

Apoplasmic barriers and oxygen transport properties of hypodermal cell...

Plant Physiology;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of apoplasmic barriers in hypodermal cell walls and oxygen profiles in roots and the...their habitat was analyzed. In hypodermal cell walls of the deciduous tree Crateva benthami...but not by lignification of exodermal cell walls. Suberin is a heterogeneous extracellular...

SIMPLE SUGARS MAKE PLANT CELLS STRONG

United Press International;  January 20, 2004 ;     215 words ......sugars act as the biological signals plant cell walls need to maintain their strength. "This...enhancing nutritional fibers in plant cell walls without changing other plant structural...learn as much as possible about how plant cell walls are created and evolve, he said. Plant...

More Useful Plants May Sprout From Gene Role Discovery.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Decreasing the amount of two acids in plant cell walls may enhance livestock feed digestibility...ferulic and sinapic acids in building plant cell walls. For many years, researchers believed...principal structural component of plant cell walls. It's the hardening substance that ...

Roles of cellulose and xyloglucan in determining the mechanical properties...

Plant Physiology;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Primary Plant Cell Walls1 The primary cell walls of growing and fleshy plant tissue mostly...mechanisms underlying material properties, cell walls and analog composites from Acetobacter...frequency response for homogenized native cell walls, their sequential extraction residues...

Simple Sugars Make Cell Walls Like Steel.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......maintain the steel-like strength of plant cell walls, according to Purdue University scientists...enhancing nutritional fibers in plant cell walls without changing other plant structural...learn as much as possible about how plant cell walls are created and evolve, he said. Plant...

Turgor regulation via cell wall adjustment in white spruce

Plant Physiology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......changes in the elastic quality of the cell walls of individual needles and shoots of naturally...changes in the elastic qualities of the cell walls. Elastic coefficients of well-watered...possibly by elastic adjustment of their cell walls (Dainty, 1976). Osmotic adjustment, like...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's John Berges Helps Complete Genome for...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  October 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......organisms called diatoms, which form their cell walls out of glass, generating intricately woven...he says. Then there are those peculiar cell walls. Diatoms have been making silica-based cell walls since between 120 and 180 million years...

Extensional rheology and stability of gas cell walls in bread doughs at...

Cereal Chemistry;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The rheological properties of gas cell walls in bread doughs are considered to be...deformation theological properties of gas cell walls were measured using biaxial extension...Strain hardening and failure strain of cell walls both decreased with temperature, with...