- Title
- Transfer cells: novel cell types with unique wall ingrowth architecture designed for optimized nutrient transport
- Creator
- McCurdy, David W.
- Relation
- ARC.DP0556217, ARC.DP0664626 & ARC.110100770 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110100770
- Relation
- Plant Cell Wall Patterning and Cell Shape p. 287-317
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118647363.ch11
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Transfer cells provide a fascinating example of how the cell wall profoundly influences cell function in plants. As the name implies, transfer cells (TCs) are involved in nutrient transport events where nutrients pass across a plasma membrane at apoplasmic/symplasmic junctions in nutrient acquisition or delivery pathways. This chapter focuses primarily on describing wall ingrowth architecture in TCs and the numerous and unique variations that make these functionally important cell types so absorbing to study. It also describes the features of phloem parenchyma TCs in minor veins of the model species Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) as a way forward to develop genetic approaches to study TC biology. Reticulate wall ingrowths are by far the most common wall ingrowth morphology seen in the plant kingdom. Flange wall ingrowths are characterized by deposition of curvilinear, rib-shaped projections of wall material.
- Subject
- phloem parenchyma; transfer cells (TCs); wall ingrowth architecture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339007
- Identifier
- uon:28151
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781118647370
- Language
- eng
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