Plant cuticles contain, beside cutin (Chapters 2 and 3), wax as the second major chemical
component. Cuticular wax plays pivotal physiological and ecological roles in the interactions …

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 …

The seasonal development of adaxial Prunus laurocerasus leaf surfaces was studied using
newly developed methods for the mechanical removal of epicuticular waxes. During …

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is the most salt-tolerant cereal crop and has excellent genetic
and genomic resources. It is therefore a good model to study salt-tolerance mechanisms in …

Kolattukudy, 1996). According to the developing model (Figure 3), early wax precursors are
short acyl chains activated by a soluble plastidic Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP). Acyl chains are …

The reaction of plants to environmental factors often varies with developmental stage. It was
hypothesized, that also the cuticle, the outer surface layer of plants is modified during …

Abstract Background and Aims The cuticular waxes sealing plant surfaces against excessive
water loss are complex mixtures of very-long-chain aliphatics, with compositions that vary …

Corn is an economically important yet frost‐sensitive crop, injured at the moment of ice
nucleation. However, the influence of autumn temperatures on subsequent ice nucleation …