In this article we will discuss about the process of thickening of cell wall in plants, explained with the help of suitable diagrams. The cell plate separates the two protoplast of a dividing cell. The cell plate gives rise to the middle lamella upon which the wall materials are laid down to form primary wall. During cell growth, each daughter [...]
Plasmodesma (plural: plasmodesmata) is thin irregular cylinder of cytoplasm lined by plasmalemma, passing through fine pores in the cell walls, thus forming a connection between the cytoplasm of adjacent cells. They are found in higher plants and fluctuate widely in abundance and distribution. They are commonly present in primary pit fields and pit membranes of young and mature living cells [...]
The cell wall is mainly composed of carbohydrate rich materials. The major components of cell wall are cellulose, pectins, hemicelluloses, proteins and phenolics. The cell wall is a biphasic structure consisting of relatively rigid cellulosic microfibril embedded in gel-like non-cellulosic matrix. The microfibrillar phase consists of only cellulose (β1, 4-glucan) and the matrix is composed of non-cellulosic polysaccharides and other [...]