Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15712-15715

  Vignolini, Silvia ^a   Rudall, Paula J ^b   Rowland, Alice V ^b   Reed, Alison ^c   Moyroud, Edwige ^c   Faden, Robert B ^d   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a   Glover, Beverley J ^c   Steiner, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit dispersal; Helicoidal self assembly; Mimicry

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; COLOR; EPICARP; EPIDERMIS CELL; FIBER; FRUIT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLARIZATION; POLLIA CONDENSATA; POLLIA FRUIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELLULOSE; COMMELINACEAE; FRUIT; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866874936     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210105109     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Parker AR (2000) 515 million years of structural colour. J Opt A Pure Appl Opt 2:R15-R28.
2. Kinoshita S, Yoshioka S, Miyazaki J (2008) Physics of structural colors. Rep Prog Phys 71:076401.
3. Vukusic P, Sambles JR (2003) Photonic structures in biology. Nature 424:852-855. (Pubitemid 37021720)
4. Vukusic P, Sambles JR, Lawrence CR, Wootton RJ (1999) Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales. Proc R Soc Lond B 266:1403-1411. (Pubitemid 29366479)
5. Seago AE, Brady P, Vigneron J-P, Schultz TD (2009) Gold bugs and beyond: A review of iridescence and structural colour mechanisms in beetles (Coleoptera). J R Soc Interface 6:165-184.
6. Michielsen K, Stavenga DG (2008) Gyroid cuticular structures in butterfly wing scales: Biological photonic crystals. J R Soc Interface 5:85-94. (Pubitemid 350159193)
7. Stoddard MC, Prum RO (2011) How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut. Behav Ecol 22:1042-1052.
8. Doucet SM, Meadows MG (2009) Iridescence: A functional perspective. J R Soc Interface 6:S115-S132.
9. Lee DW (2007) Nature's Palette (Chicago Univ Press, Chicago).
10. Thomas KR, Kolle M, Whitney HM, Glover BJ, Steiner U (2010) Function of blue iridescence in tropical understorey plants. J R Soc Interface 7:1699-1707.
11. Whitney HM, et al. (2009) Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators. Science 323:130-133.
12. Lee DW, Lowry JB (1975) Physical basis and ecological significance of iridescence in blue plants. Nature 254:50-51.
13. Lee D (1997) Iridescent blue plants. Am Sci 85:56-63.
14. Lee DW (1991) Ultrastructural basis and function of iridescent blue colour of fruits in Elaeocarpus. Nature 394:260-262.
15. Cazetta E, Zumstein LS, Melo-Júnior TA, Galetti M (2008) Frugivory on Margaritaria nobilis l. f. (euphorbiaciaceae): Poor investment and mimetism. Rev Bras Bot 31:303-308.
16. Lee D, Taylor G, Irvine A (2000) Structural fruit coloration in Delarbrea michieana (Araliaceae). Int J Plant Sci 161:297-300. (Pubitemid 30343554)
17. Faden RB (2011) Flora of Tropical East Africa: Commelinaceae, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Flora of Tropical East Africa, ed H Beentje (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK).
18. Shawkey MD, Morehouse NI, Vukusic P (2009) A protean palette: Colour materials and mixing in birds and butterflies. J R Soc Interface 6:S221-S231.
19. Neville AC (1993) Biology of Fibrous Composites: Developments Beyond the Cell Membrane (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, UK), pp 85-123.
20. De Vries H (1951) Rotatory power and other optical properties of certain liquid crystals. Acta Crystallogr 4:219-226.
21. Sharma V, Crne M, Park JO, Srinivasarao M (2009) Structural origin of circularly polarized iridescence in jeweled beetles. Science 325:449-451.
22. Woolley JT (1975) Refractive index of soybean leaf cell walls. Plant Physiol 55:172-174.
23. Kutschera U (2008) The growing outer epidermal wall: Design and physiological role of a composite structure. Ann Bot 101:615- 621.
24. Neville AC, Levy S (1985) Biochemistry of Plant Cell Walls, eds C Brett and J Hillman (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, UK).
25. Chan J (2012) Microtubule and cellulose microfibril orientation during plant cell and organ growth. J Microsc 247:23-32.
26. Habibi Y, Lucia LA, Rojas OJ (2010) Cellulose nanocrystals: Chemistry, self-assembly, and applications. Chem Rev 110:3479-3500.
27. Neville AC (1988) A pipe-cleaner molecular model for morphogenesis of helicoidal plant cell walls based on hemicellulose complexity. J Theor Biol 131:243-254.
28. Chan J, et al. (2010) The rotation of cellulose synthase trajectories is microtubule dependent and influences the texture of epidermal cell walls in Arabidopsis hypocotyls. J Cell Sci 123:3490-3495.
29. Zi J, et al. (2003) Coloration strategies in peacock feathers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:12576-12578. (Pubitemid 37339940)
30. Faden RB (1998) Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, ed K Kubitzki (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), Vol 4, pp 109-128.