Cell walls are comprised of networks of entangled polymers that differ considerably
between species, tissues and developmental stages. The cell walls of grasses, a family that …

Cell walls are complex structures surrounding plant cells with a composition that varies among
species and even within a species between organs, cell types and development stages. …

Background Wheat is one of the most important staple source in the world for human
consumption, animal feed and industrial raw materials. To deal with the global and increasing …

Cereal crop by-products are a promising source of renewable raw material for the production
of biofuel from lignocellulose. However, their enzymatic conversion to fermentable sugars …

Abstract Model systems are needed to provide controlled environment for the understanding
of complex phenomena. Interaction between polysaccharides and proteins in dense …

Rhamnogalacturonan I (RGI) is a pectic polysaccharide composed of a backbone of alternating
rhamnose and galacturonic acid residues with side chains containing galactose and/or …

Tomato fruit texture depends on histology and cell wall architecture, both under genetic and
developmental controls. If ripening related cell wall modifications have been well …

Seeds of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon are unusual because they contain very
little starch and high levels of mixed-linkage glucan (MLG) accumulated in thick cell walls. It …

Tracking enzyme localization and following the local biochemical modification of the
substrate should help explain the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic plant cell walls to enzymatic …

Important biological, nutritional and technological roles are attributed to cell wall polymers
from cereal grains. The composition of cell walls in dry wheat grain has been well studied, …