Pectin Drives Cell Wall Morphogenesis without Turgor Pressure.
How the plant cell wall expands and forms shapes is a long-standing mystery. Traditional thought is that turgor pressure drives these processes. However, a recent study by Haas and colleagues shows for the first time that the expansion of pectin homogalacturonan nanofilaments drives morphogenesis without turgor pressure in plant epidermal cells.
['Zhang|Dangquan|D|', 'Zhang|Baohong|B|']
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pectin cell wall morphogenesis turgor pressure nanofilament nanoimaging