The cuticle covering aerial organs of land plants is well known to protect against desiccation.
Cuticles also play diverse and specialized functions, including organ separation, depending …

Cuticular waxes coat aerial plant surfaces to protect tissues against biotic and abiotic stress.
The waxes are complex mixtures of fatty-acid-derived lipids formed on modular biosynthetic …

Plant surface properties are crucial determinants of resilience to abiotic and biotic stresses.
The outer layer of the plant cuticle consists of chemically diverse epicuticular waxes. The …

Increasing evidence indicates a strong correlation between the deposition of cuticular waxes
and drought tolerance. However, the precise regulatory mechanism remains elusive. Here …

The assembly of the lipophilic cuticle layer and suberin lamellae, approximately 450 million
years ago, was a major evolutionary development that enabled plants to colonize terrestrial …

Pericarp wax of cucumber is an important economic trait, determining sales and marketing.
Grafting of cucumber onto pumpkin rootstock (Cucurbita moschata) is an effective way to …

In fruits, cuticular waxes affect fruit quality traits such as surface color at harvest and water
loss during postharvest storage. This study investigated the transcriptional regulation of …

Plants are able to construct lineage‐specific natural products from a wide array of their core
metabolic pathways. Considerable progress has been made toward documenting and …

Abstract Glaucous (811, L35, and RXL10) and non-glaucous (811bw, L35bw, and
RXL10bw) near-isogenic lines (NILs) of rye (Secale cereale L.) forming three pairs of inbred …

Background Blueberry is of high economic value. Most blueberry varieties selected for the
fresh market have an appealing light blue coating or “bloom” on the fruit due to the presence …