Key message The cuticle is the plant's barrier against abiotic and biotic stresses, and the
deposition of epicuticular wax crystals results in the scattering of light, an effect termed …

All land plants seal their above ground body parts with a lipid-rich hydrophobic barrier called
the cuticle to protect themselves from dehydration and other terrestrial threats. Mutational …

Upland cotton is an important allotetraploid crop that provides both natural fiber for the textile
industry and edible vegetable oil for the food or feed industry. To better understand the …

Plant epidermal wax helps protect plants from adverse environmental conditions, maintains
the function of tissues and organs, and ensures normal plant development. However, the …

Cuticular waxes are the hydrocarbon consisting of very long chain primary alcohols,
aldehydes, fatty acids, alkane and esters. They are hydrophobic layer which protect aerial …

Background Providing the photosynthesis factory for plants, chloroplasts are critical for crop
biomass and economic yield. However, chloroplast development is a complicated process …

The primary function of the outermost, lipophilic layer of plant aerial surfaces, called the
cuticle, is preventing non-stomatal water loss. Its exterior surface is often decorated with wax …

Heterosis is the phenomenon in which hybrid progeny exhibits superior traits in comparison
with those of their parents. Genomic variations between the two parental genomes may …

Cuticular waxes play important eco‐physiological roles in protecting plants against abiotic
and biotic stresses and show high sensitivity to environmental changes. In order to clarify the …

Key message Quantitation of leaf surface wax on a population of switchgrass identified three
significant QTL present across six environments that contribute to leaf glaucousness and …