Effects of Plant Cell Wall Matrix Polysaccharides on Bacterial Cellulose Structure Studied with Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 2718-2724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Bum Park ◽  
Christopher M. Lee ◽  
Kabindra Kafle ◽  
Sunkyu Park ◽  
Daniel J. Cosgrove ◽  
...  
Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1263
Author(s):  
David Stuart Thompson ◽  
Azharul Islam

The extensibility of synthetic polymers is routinely modulated by the addition of lower molecular weight spacing molecules known as plasticizers, and there is some evidence that water may have similar effects on plant cell walls. Furthermore, it appears that changes in wall hydration could affect wall behavior to a degree that seems likely to have physiological consequences at water potentials that many plants would experience under field conditions. Osmotica large enough to be excluded from plant cell walls and bacterial cellulose composites with other cell wall polysaccharides were used to alter their water content and to demonstrate that the relationship between water potential and degree of hydration of these materials is affected by their composition. Additionally, it was found that expansins facilitate rehydration of bacterial cellulose and cellulose composites and cause swelling of plant cell wall fragments in suspension and that these responses are also affected by polysaccharide composition. Given these observations, it seems probable that plant environmental responses include measures to regulate cell wall water content or mitigate the consequences of changes in wall hydration and that it may be possible to exploit such mechanisms to improve crop resilience.


Cellulose ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1541-1563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Martínez-Sanz ◽  
Patricia Lopez-Sanchez ◽  
Michael J. Gidley ◽  
Elliot P. Gilbert

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1534-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Martínez-Sanz ◽  
Michael J. Gidley ◽  
Elliot P. Gilbert

SANS data of bacterial cellulose and its composites with plant cell wall polysaccharides can be described by a core–shell model which accounts for the distinct solvent accessibility to the ribbons' inner/outer regions.


AIChE Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1954-1964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Yao ◽  
Qinfeng Wu ◽  
Ran An ◽  
Wei Meng ◽  
Mingzhu Ding ◽  
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