Crucial Roles of Brassinosteroids in Cell Wall Composition and Structure Across Species: New Insights and Biotechnological Applications

F Percio, L Rubio, V Amorim‐Silva… - Plant, Cell & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Brassinosteroids (BR) are steroidal phytohormones essential for plant growth, development,
and stress resistance. They fulfil this role partially by modulating cell wall structure and …

The cell surface is the place to be for brassinosteroid perception and responses

C Delesalle, G Vert, S Fujita - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Adjusting the microenvironment around the cell surface is critical to responding to external
cues or endogenous signals and to maintaining cell activities. In plant cells, the plasma …

Seed priming with brassinosteroids alleviates chromium stress in rice cultivars via improving ROS metabolism and antioxidant defense response at biochemical and …

F Basit, M Chen, T Ahmed, M Shahid, M Noman, J Liu… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
This research was performed to explore the vital role of seed priming with a 0.01 µM
concentration of brassinosteroids (EBL) to alleviate the adverse effects of Cr (100 µM) in two …

The root meristem is shaped by brassinosteroid control of cell geometry

Y Fridman, S Strauss, G Horev, M Ackerman-Lavert… - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Growth extent and direction determine cell and whole-organ architecture. How they are
spatio-temporally modulated to control size and shape is not well known. Here we tackled …

Eudicot primary cell wall glucomannan is related in synthesis, structure, and function to xyloglucan

L Yu, Y Yoshimi, R Cresswell, R Wightman… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hemicellulose polysaccharides influence assembly and properties of the plant primary cell
wall (PCW), perhaps by interacting with cellulose to affect the deposition and bundling of …

Cloning and structural elucidation of a brassinosteroids biosynthetic gene (Atdwarf 4) and genetic transformation of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.)

HV Duong, S Krishna Repalli, P Gupta… - Indian Journal of …, 2022 - op.niscpr.res.in
Phytohormones play critical roles in plant growth and development. Brassinosteroids (BRs)
are essential group of phytohormones required for optimum growth of plants and their …

Dynamics of cell wall polysaccharides during the elongation growth of rye primary roots

A Petrova, G Sibgatullina, T Gorshkova, L Kozlova - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion In cells of growing rye roots, xyloglucans and homogalacturonans
demonstrate developmental stage specificity, while different xylans have tissue specificity …

Binding of Tau-derived peptide-fused GFP to plant microtubules in Arabidopsis thaliana

H Inaba, K Oikawa, K Ishikawa, Y Kodama, K Matsuura… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Studies on how exogenous molecules modulate properties of plant microtubules, such as
their stability, structure, and dynamics, are important for understanding and modulating …

Transcriptomic analysis of Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) variants indicates brassinosteroid involvement in tuber development

J Riekötter, J Oklestkova, J Muth, RM Twyman… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dioscorea is an important but underutilized genus of flowering plants that grows
predominantly in tropical and subtropical regions. Several species, known as yam, develop …

[HTML][HTML] Brassinosteroids Render Cell Walls Softer but Less Extensible in Growing Arabidopsis Hypocotyls

DV Suslov, AN Ivanova, D Balcerowicz, MS Tarasova… - Plants, 2025 - mdpi.com
Cell wall extensibility is a key biophysical characteristic that defines the rate of plant cell
growth. It depends on the wall structure and is controlled by numerous proteins that cut …