Annual Plant Reviews, The Plant Cell Wall

Text provides an overview of our current understanding of plant cell walls, drawing on the recent advances of plant molecular biology. Bridges the biochemistry-oriented cell wall literature and the new technology-driven approaches. For academic and industrial researchers in plant cell biology, biochemistry, developmental biology, and genetics. Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 8 In the last few years, the new analytical tools associated with molecular biology, biochemistry, spectroscopy, microscopy, immunology, genomics and proteomics have been employed to investigate plant cell wall structure and function, providing a degree of resolution that was, until recently, unattainable. This has resulted in a growing awareness of the critical role of plant cell walls in a broad range of developmental events, adding strength and diversity to cell wall-related scientific research. This volume provides an overview of our current understanding of plant cell walls, drawing on the recent advances of plant molecular biology. It incorporates the identification of a rapidly growing number of genes and the proteins responsible for plant wall synthesis, restructuring, degradation and wall-associated signal transduction. The book bridges the biochemistry-oriented cell wall literature and the new technology-driven approaches. This is a book for academic and industrial researchers in plant cell biology, biochemistry, developmental biology, genetics and molecular biology. The diversity in shape and size of flowering plants results from the different morphologies of the various cell types that make up the vegetative and reproductive organs of the plant body (Raven et al., 1999; Martin et al., 2001). Edited By Jocelyn K.c. Rose. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Enzymes, lignin, proteins, cellulose, pectin, kinase