Intracuticular wax fixes and restricts strain in leaf and fruit cuticles

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-143

  Khanal, Bishnu Prasad ^a   Grimm, Eckhard ^a   Finger, Sebastian ^b   Blume, Alfred ^b   Knoche, Moritz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystallinity; Cuticle; Fracture; Rheology; Stiffness; Stress

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; CUTICLE; FIXATION; FRUIT; HEATING; LEAF; RHEOLOGY; STIFFNESS; WAX;

AGAVE; AGAVE AMERICANA; CLIVIA MINIATA; HEDERA; HEDERA HELIX; ILEX; ILEX AQUIFOLIUM; LILIUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PYRUS; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

WAX;

AGAVE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLINITY; CUTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; FRACTURE; FRUIT; ILEX; IVY; LILIACEAE; MALUS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAF; PYRUS; RIGIDITY; STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMATO;

CRYSTALLINITY; CUTICLE; FRACTURE; RHEOLOGY; STIFFNESS; STRESS;

AGAVE; ANGIOSPERMS; FRUIT; HEDERA; ILEX; LILIACEAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES; PYRUS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WAXES;

EID: 84883052347     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12355     Document Type: Article

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