| Chapter title |
Plant Surface Lipids and Epidermis Development.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 12 |
| Book title |
Lipids in Plant and Algae Development
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| Published in |
Sub cellular biochemistry, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-25979-6_12 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-925977-2, 978-3-31-925979-6
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| Authors |
Camille Delude, Steven Moussu, Jérôme Joubès, Gwyneth Ingram, Frédéric Domergue |
| Editors |
Yuki Nakamura, Yonghua Li-Beisson |
| Abstract |
The epidermis has a strategic position at the interface between the plant and the environment. In order to control exchanges with the environment as well as to protect the plant from external threats, the epidermis synthesises and secretes surface lipids to form a continuous, transparent and hydrophobic layer known as the cuticle. Cuticle formation is a strictly epidermal property in plants and all aerial epidermal cells produce some sort of cuticle on their surface. Conversely, all cuticularized plant surfaces are of epidermal origin. This seemingly anodyne observation has surprisingly profound implications in terms of understanding the function of the plant cuticle, since it underlies in part, the difficultly of functionally separating epidermal cell fate specification from cuticle biogenesis. |
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| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 15% |
| Researcher | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 12% |
| Other | 3 | 12% |
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| Chemistry | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 4 | 15% |