Modelling the mechanical properties of xylem tissue from tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum 'Samsun') by considering the importance of molecular and micromechanisms

Annals of Botany

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 761-770

  Hepworth, D G ^a   Vincent, J F V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Matrix polymer connectivity; Nicotiana tabacum; Plant biomechanics; Tobacco; Xylem tissue; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031805217     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1998.0632     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ashby MF, Gibson LJ, Wegst U, Olive R. 1995. The mechanical properties of natural materials. I. Material property charts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 450: 123-140.
2. Carpita NC. 1985. Tensile strength of cell walls of living plants. Plant Physiology 79: 485-488.
3. Cowdrey DR, Preston RD. 1966. Elasticity and microfibrillar angle in xylem tissue of Sitka spruce. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 166: 245-271.
4. Dinwoodie JM. 1989. Xylem tissues: nature's cellular, polymeric fibre-composite. Vermont: Institute of Metals.
5. Eda S, Akiyama Y, Kato K. 1984. Structural investigation of a galactocomannan from cell walls of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) midrib. Carbohydrate Research 131: 105-118.
6. Erins P, Cinite V, Jakobson M, Gravitis J. 1976. Xylem tissue as a multicomponent crosslinked polymer system. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Applied Polymer Symposium 28: 1117-1138.
7. Gibson LJ, Ashby MF. 1988. Cellular solids: structure and properties. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
8. Harris B. 1980. The mechanical behaviour of composite materials. In: Vincent JFV, Currey JD, eds. The mechanical properties of biological materials. Symposium of the Society of Experimental Biology 34: 37-74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Hepworth DG. 1997. The mechanical properties of tobacco plants with modified lignin. PhD Thesis. The University of Reading, UK.
10. Hepworth DG, Vincent JFV. 1998. The mechanical properties of xylem tissue from tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum 'Samsun'). Annals of Botany 81, 751-759.
11. Hepworth DG, Vincent JFV, Schuch W. 1988. Using the viscoelastic properties of the woody tissue from tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) to comment on the molecular structure of the cell walls. Annals of Botany 81: 729-734.
12. Iraki MN, Bressan RA, Carpita NC. 1989. Cell walls of tobacco cells and changes in composition associated with growth limiting adaptation to water and saline stress. Plant Physiology 91: 48-53.
13. Jeronimidis G. 1980. Xylem tissue, one of nature's challenging composites. In: Vincent JFV, Currey JD, eds. Mechanical properties of biological materials. Symposium of the Society of Experimental Biology 34: 169-182. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Kahle E, Woodhouse J. 1994. The influence of cell geometry on the elasticity of soft xylem tissue. Journal of Material Science 29: 1250-1259.
15. Krenchel H. 1964. Fiber reinforcement. Stockholm: Akademisk Vorlag.
16. McCann MC, Wells B, Roberts K. 1990. Direct visualisation of cross links in the primary plant cell wall. Journal of Cell Science 96: 323-334.
17. McCann MC, Wells B, Roberts K. 1992. Complexity in spatial localisation and length distribution of plant cell wall matrix polysaccharides. Journal of Microscopy 166: 123-136.
18. McCann MC, Stacey NJ, Wilson RH, Robert K. 1993. Orientation of macromolecules in the walls of elongating carrot cells. Journal of Cell Science 106: 1347-1356.
19. Mark RE. 1967. Cell wall mechanics of trachieds. Connecticut USA: Yale University Press.
20. Monties B. 1991. Plant cell walls as fibrous lignocellulosic composites: relations with lignin structure and function. Animal Feed Science and Technology 32: 159-175.
21. Preston RD. 1974. The physical biology of plant cell walls. London: Chapman and Hall.
22. Preston RD. 1986. Cellulose structure, modification and hydrolysis. Young A. Powell RM, eds. New York: Wiley-Interscience Publications, 3-29.
23. Roland JC, Reis D, Vian B, Roy S. 1989. The helicoidal plant cell wall as a performing cellulose based composite. Biology of the Cell 67: 209-220.
24. Scallan C. 1974. The structure of the cell wall of xylem tissue: a consequence of anisotropic inter-microfibrillar bonding? Xylem Tissue Science and Technology 6: 266-271.
25. Shedletzky E, Shmuel M, Trainin T, Kalman S, Delmer D. 1992. Cell wall structure in cells adapted to growth on the cellulose-synthesis inhibitor 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile. Plant Physiology 100: 120-130.
26. Willison JHM. 1983. The morphology of supposed cellulose synthesising structures in higher plants. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Applied Polymer Symposium 37: 91-105.