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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 145, Issue 3, Pages 449-455Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00601.x
Keywords
axis extension; axis growth; epidermis; hoop reinforcement; net orientation; tissue tension; wall microfibrils
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During the initial phases of elongation of pea internodes, oat and rice coleoptiles, oat mesocotyls, soybean hypocotyls and dandelion peduncles, net transverse orientation of cellulose wall microfibrils (Mfs) was found in the outer epidermal wall. This paper demonstrates that in all these axes, with the exception of rice coleoptile, net longitudinal orientation of microfibrils occurs in the outer epidermal wall in portions of the axes that were still elongating at the time of sampling. The timing of the transition to net longitudinal orientation and whether the transition proceeded acropetally or basipetally varied with the type of axis under study. The variability of the relationship between extension and the transition from net transverse to net longitudinal orientation suggests that factors other than extension are important in determining the transition. Layers of longitudinal wall microfibrils may be added to the extending epidermal wall to bolster its tensile strength commensurate with its function during and after extension. Attention is drawn to the parallels between the concept of tissue tension in growing axes and the concept that the epidermis functions as a stressed skin in the support of mature plant parts in primary growth.
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