Fungi interact with plants in various ways, with each interaction giving rise to different
alterations in both partners. While fungal pathogens have detrimental effects on plant …

The apoplast is a continuous plant compartment that connects cells between tissues and
organs and is one of the first sites of interaction between plants and microbes. The plant cell …

Water Relations of Plants and Soils, successor to the seminal 1983 book by Paul Kramer,
covers the entire field of water relations using current concepts and consistent terminology …

Specialized cells of plants synthesize phenolics and store them in their vacuoles during the
normal processes of differentiation. Such phenolic-storing cells are distributed within most …

Xylem vascular wilt pathogens cause devastating diseases in plants. Proliferation of these
pathogens in the xylem causes massive disruption of water and mineral transport, resulting …

Suberin and cutin are fatty acid–and glycerol-based plant polymers that act as pathogen
barriers and function in the control of water and solute transport. However, despite important …

Polyesters occur in higher plants as the structural component of the cuticle that covers the
aerial parts of plants. This insoluble polymer, called cutin, attached to the epidermal cell …

As a structural feature of specialized cell walls, suberization remains an enigma, despite its
obvious importance both during normal growth and development and as a stress response …

Tomato varieties resistant to the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum have the
ability to restrict bacterial movement in the plant. Inducible vascular cell wall reinforcements …

Suberin, a lipophilic polymer deposited in the outer integument of the Arabidopsis
(Arabidopsis thaliana) seed coat, represents an essential sealing component controlling …