Self assembly of epicuticular waxes on living plant surfaces imaged by atomic force microscopy (AFM)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 397, 2004, Pages 711-718

  Koch, Kerstin ^a   Neinhuis, Christoph ^b   Ensikat, Hans Jürgen ^a   Barthlott, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Crystallization; Epicuticular waxes; Nanostructures; Regeneration; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; LIPIDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CUTICLE; TERRESTRIAL VASCULAR PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

WAX;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; EUPHORBIA; GALANTHUS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANGIOSPERMS; EUPHORBIA; GALANTHUS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT LEAVES; WAXES;

BRYOPHYTES; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA LATHYRIS; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; IPHEION; IPHEION UNIFLORUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 1542544512     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh077     Document Type: Article

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