Links to plant surface-related sites

1. Homepages - 2. Mailing list 'plant-surfaces' - 3. Abstracts

1. Homepages:

Groups in Germany:

Markus Riederer's group, Universität Würzburg

• Overview
• Markus Riederer, Claus Markstädter: Ecophysiology of plant surfaces
• Reinhard Jetter: Formation and role of selected plant surface lipids
• Lukas Schreiber et al.: Biology of plant interfaces

Jörg Schönherr's group, Universität Hannover

Klaus Lendzian's group, Technische Universität München

Wilhelm Barthlott's group, Universität Bonn

• Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces
• The Lotus effect
• High resolution SEM of epicuticular waxes and its systematic significance

Klaus Haas's group, Universität Hohenheim

Groups elsewhere in Europe:

Gerhard Kerstiens, Lancaster University

• Gas exchange of leaves across cuticle and stomata
• Uptake of organic pollutants across cuticle and stomata

Jonathan Weyers, University of Dundee

• Heterogeneity in stomatal characteristics and conductance across the leaf surface

K. P. Beckett, University of Sussex

• Particulate pollution removal by urban trees

Antonio Heredia, Universidad de Málaga

• Caracterización físico-química y estructura de cutículas vegetales

Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg, 
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

• Needle waxes and biomonitoring

Groups in the USA and Canada:

James D. Batteas, City University of New York

• Surface science applied to plant surfaces

Virginia Berg, University of Northern Iowa

• Interaction between plants and the environment at the leaf surface

Sanford Eigenbrode's Chemical Ecology Program, University of Idaho

• Interactions between plant surface waxes and arthropods

Karl E. Espelie, University of Wisconsin

• Role of plant and insect cuticular lipids in plant/insect and insect/insect interactions

Kenneth A. Feldmann, Ohio State University

• Genetic engineering of epicuticular waxes and resistance to insects

David A. Danehower, North Carolina State University

• Interaction of Solanaceous leaf surface compounds with insects and pathogens

Richard H. Grant, Purdue University

• Within canopy UV and PAR radiation

Matthew A. Jenks, Purdue University

• Physiological and biochemical genetics of plant surface lipids: the sorghum project

Bertrand Lemieux, York University (Canada)

• Molecular regulation of plant surface wax biosynthesis

Martha A. Mutschler, Cornell University

• Acylsugars and insect resistance in tomato

Chris R. Somerville, Stanford University

• Synthesis of epidermal cuticle

Ruth E. Stark, City University of New York

• NMR analysis of cuticular compounds

2. Mailing list 'plant-surfaces':

• Description
• Homepage and archive
• To join, write to plant-surfaces-request@jiscmail.ac.uk

3. Abstracts etc.:

Go to abstracts regarding  . . .

Cuticular Permeability and Transport Processes

Environmental Effects on Cuticular Properties

Molecular Biology and Biosynthesis of Waxes and Cutin

Plant-Insect and Plant-Microbe Interactions Involving Shoot Surface Compounds

Other Topics

Cuticular Permeability and Transport Processes

P Baur, H Marzouk and J Schönherr:

• Estimation of path lengths for diffusion of organic compounds through leaf cuticles

A Buchholz, P Baur and J Schönherr:

• Differences among plant species in cuticular permeabilities and solute mobilities are not caused by differential size selectivities

EP Hamerlynck and AK Knapp:

• Early season cuticular conductance and gas exchange in two oaks near the western edge of their range

V Hauke and L Schreiber:

• Ontogenetic and seasonal development of wax composition and cuticular transpiration of ivy (Hedera helix L.) sun and shade leaves

SP Hoad, J Grace and CE Jeffree:

• A leaf disc method for measuring cuticular conductance
• Humidity response of cuticular conductance of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) leaf discs maintained at high relative water content

G Kerstiens:

• Cuticular water permeance of European trees and shrubs grown in polluted and unpolluted atmospheres, and its relation to stomatal response to humidity in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
• Barrier properties of the cuticle to water, solutes and pest and pathogen penetration in leaves grown in polluted atmospheres
• Cuticular water permeability and its physiologial significance (review paper)
• In vivo manipulation of cuticular water permeance and its effects on stomatal response to humidity

S Merk, A Blume and M Riederer:

• Phase behaviour and crystallinity of plant cuticular waxes studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

S Niederl, T Kirsch, M Riederer and L Schreiber:

• Co-permeability of 3H-labeled water and 14C-labeled organic acids across isolated plant cuticles

EC Reynhardt:

• The role of hydrogen bonding in the cuticular wax of Hordeum vulgare L.

S Roy et al:

• Changes in the ultrastructure of the epicuticular wax and postharvest calcium uptake in apples

L Schreiber, K Schorn and T Heimburg:

• 2H NMR study of cuticular wax isolated from Hordeum vulgare L. leaves: identification of amorphous and crystalline wax phases

Environmental Effects on Cuticular Properties

JD Barnes, KE Percy, ND Paul, P Jones, CK McLaughlin, PM Mullineaux, G Creissen and AR Wellburn:

• The influence of UV-B radiation on the physicochemical nature of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaf surface

EA Graham and PS Nobel:

• Long-term effects of a doubled atmospheric CO2 concentration on the CAM species Agave deserti

J Hovorka and GB Marshall:

• Determination of As, Cd, and Pb in epicuticular waxes of pine and spruce needles by ETAAS

G Kerstiens, SA Moody and ND Paul:

• Effects of elevated UV-B radiation on cuticular water permeability of ivy grown under natural or artificial light

H Sase, T Takamatsu and T Yoshida:

• Variation in amount and elemental composition of epicuticular wax in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) leaves associated with natural environmental factors

M Turunen et al.:

• Epicuticular wax of subarctic Scots pine needles: response to sulphur and heavy metal deposition

Molecular Biology and Biosynthesis of Waxes and Cutin

P Comménil, L Belingheri, G Bauw and B Dehorter:

• Molecular characterization of a lipase induced in Botrytis cinerea by components of grape berry cuticle

LMW Dellaert:

• Eceriferum mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh:

I. Induction by x-rays and fast neutrons
II. Phenotypic and genetic analysis

MD Deng, S Peng and B Lemieux:

• Genomic and cDNA sequences of the CER1-like gene of Arabidopsis thaliana derived from a plant DNA / T-DNA insertion junction

G Donini et al.:

• Genetic and molecular analysis of the gl3-m3 allele of maize

MMS Evans, HJ Passas and RS Poethig:

• Heterochronic effects of glossy15 mutations on epidermal cell identity in maize

F Hochholdinger, W Hetz and G Feix:

• Juvenile-adult phase transition of vegetative traits is not affected in the root deficient mutant rtcs

B Hollenbach, L Schreiber, W Hartung and K-J Dietz:

• Cadmium leads to stimulated expression of the lipid transfer protein genes in barley: implications for the involvement of lipid transfer proteins in wax assembly

JB Ohlrogge and JB Jaworski:

• Regulation of fatty acid synthesis

AM Rashotte and KA Feldmann:

• Epicuticular wax mutant interactions in Arabidopsis

Y Rhee and D Post-Beittenmiller:

• ABA is involved in a signal transduction pathway leading to the expression of genes involved in epicuticular wax production in Arabidopsis

Plant-Insect and Plant-Microbe Interactions Involving Shoot Surface Compounds

SR Anderson:

• Cuticular wax composition and silk receptivity in four maize hybrids

P Commenil, L Brunet and JC Audran:

• The development of the grape berry cuticle in relation to susceptibility to bunch rot disease

S Derridj:

• Leaf surface and plant-insect relationships

SD Eigenbrode, C White and M Rohde:

• Epicuticular wax phenotype of the wel mutation and its effect on pea aphid populations in the greenhouse and in the field

SD Eigenbrode and KE Espelie:

• Effects of plant epicuticular lipids on insect herbivores (review paper)

W Federle, U Maschwitz, B Fiala, M Riederer and B Hölldobler:

• Slippery ant-plants and skilful climbers: selection and protection of specific ant partners by epicuticular wax blooms in Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)

Y Hegde and PE Kolattukudy:

• Cuticular waxes relieve self-inhibition of germination and appressorium formation by the conidia of Magnaporthe grisea

H Heinzen et al.:

• On the chemical ecology of epicuticular waxes from seeds

D Knoll and L Schreiber:

• Influence of epiphytic micro-organisms on leaf wettability: wetting of the upper leaf surface of Juglans regia and of model surfaces in relation to colonization by micro-organisms

PJ Maloney, PJ Albert and AP Tulloch:

• Influence of epicuticular waxes from white spruce and balsam fir on feeding behavior of the Eastern spruce budworm

M Schwab, G Noga and W Barthlott:

• The significance of epicuticular waxes for defence of pathogens as shown for Botrytis cinerea infections in kohlrabi and pea plants

RD Simon, A Abeliovich and S Belkin:

• A novel terrestrial halophilic environment: The phylloplane of Atriplex halimus, a salt-excreting plant

Other Topics

W Barthlott, C Neinhuis, I Theisen and F Ditsch:

• Epicuticular wax micromorphology and angiosperm classification

R Jetter, S Schäffer and M Riederer

• Leaf cuticular waxes are arranged in chemically and mechanically distinct layers: evidence from Prunus laurocerasus L.

RL Maynard and TM Sterling:

• Picloram photodegradation in plant epicuticular wax

TC Pesacreta and KH Hasenstein:

• The internal cuticle of Cirsium horridulum (Asteraceae) leaves

DJ Undersander, CH Naylor and PS Baenzinger:

• Effect of leaf wax type on rate of digestion of barley

Pages from Peter v. Sengbusch's Botany Online:

• Epicuticular Waxes and Similar Secretions
• Stomates and Epicuticular Waxes

... and not to be missed:
  Sinikka Komulainen's  Chatting on a Leaf Surface

The selection of titles shown above is, unavoidably, somewhat arbitrary and I'm sure I have overlooked many papers worth listing. I have mainly tried to reflect the width of cuticle-related topics rather than attempting  to achieve completeness. Only articles with freely accessible abstracts have been included. Please send suggestions for further listings to g.kerstiens@lancaster.ac.uk.

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Search journal sites offering free abstracts:
American Journal of Botany CUP (New Phytologist)  Journal of Experimental Botany       Plant Physiology       Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology       Springer journals

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Further resources:

Abstracts of the 1996 SEB conference session 
Plant Cuticles - an Integrated Functional Approach  (mirror site)  Info on book

Abstracts of the 1997 Symposium 
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Fatty Acids and Glycerolipids

NSF Award Abstracts

U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service pre-publication notices

(I'm sorry that the USDA list is out of date. The URLs simply change too frequently.)

Last updated on 17 January 2001.

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