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Cortical microtubules optimize cell‐wall crystallinity to drive unidirectional growth in Arabidopsis by Fujita, Miki, Himmelspach, Regina, Hocart, Charles H., Williamson, Richard E., Mansfield, Shawn D., Wasteneys, Geoffrey O.

“…Summary The shape of plants depends on cellulose, a biopolymer that self‐assembles into crystalline, inextensible microfibrils (CMFs) upon synthesis at the…”
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Mutation or Drug-Dependent Microtubule Disruption Causes Radial Swelling without Altering Parallel Cellulose Microfibril Deposition in Arabidopsis Root Cells by Sugimoto, Keiko, Himmelspach, Regina, Williamson, Richard E., Wasteneys, Geoffrey O.

“…As critical determinants of growth anisotropy in plants, cortical microtubules are thought to constrain the movement of cellulose synthase complexes and thus…”
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Cellulose microfibril alignment recovers from DCB‐induced disruption despite microtubule disorganization by Himmelspach, Regina, Williamson, Richard E., Wasteneys, Geoffrey O.

“…Summary Cellulose microfibril deposition patterns define the direction of plant cell expansion. To better understand how microfibril alignment is controlled,…”
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New Techniques Enable Comparative Analysis of Microtubule Orientation, Wall Texture, and Growth Rate in Intact Roots of Arabidopsis by Sugimoto, Keiko, Williamson, Richard E., Wasteneys, Geoffrey O.

“…This article explores root epidermal cell elongation and its dependence on two structural elements of cells, cortical microtubules and cellulose microfibrils…”
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The cellulose‐deficient Arabidopsis mutant rsw3 is defective in a gene encoding a putative glucosidase II, an enzyme processing N‐glycans during ER quality control by Burn, Joanne E., Hurley, Ursula A., Birch, Rosemary J., Arioli, Tony, Cork, Ann, Williamson, Richard E.

“…Summary rsw3 is a temperature‐sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana showing radially swollen roots and a deficiency in cellulose. The rsw3 gene was…”
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CESA from Griffithsia monilis (Rhodophyta, Florideophyceae) has a family 48 carbohydrate-binding module by Matthews, Peter R, Schindler, Michael, Howles, Paul, Arioli, Tony, Williamson, Richard E

“…Cellulose synthases form rosette terminal complexes in the plasma membranes of Streptophyta and various linear terminal complexes in other taxa. The sequence…”
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Cortical microtubule arrays lose uniform alignment between cells and are oryzalin resistant in the Arabidopsis mutant, radially swollen 6 by Bannigan, A.(University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)), Wiedemeier, A.M.D, Williamson, R.E, Overall, R.L, Baskin, T.I

“…The coordinated expansion of cells is essential to the formation of correctly shaped plant tissues and organs. Members of the radially swollen (rsw) class of…”
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mutation in an Arabidopsis ribose 5-phosphate isomerase reduces cellulose synthesis and is rescued by exogenous uridine by Howles, Paul A, Birch, Rosemary J, Collings, David A, Gebbie, Leigh K, Hurley, Ursula A, Hocart, Charles H, Arioli, Tony, Williamson, Richard E

“…The Arabidopsis radial swelling mutant rsw10 showed ballooning of root trichoblasts, a lower than wild-type level of cellulose and altered levels of some…”
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Mutant alleles of Arabidopsis RADIALLY SWOLLEN 4 and 7 reduce growth anisotropy without altering the transverse orientation of cortical microtubules or cellulose microfibrils by Wiedemeier, Allison M D, Judy-March, Jan E, Hocart, Charles H, Wasteneys, Geoffrey O, Williamson, Richard E, Baskin, Tobias I

“…The anisotropic growth of plant cells depends on cell walls having anisotropic mechanical properties, which are hypothesized to arise from aligned cellulose…”
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WallGen, Software to Construct Layered Cellulose-Hemicellulose Networks and Predict Their Small Deformation Mechanics by Kha, Hung, Tuble, Sigrid C, Kalyanasundaram, Shankar, Williamson, Richard E

“…We understand few details about how the arrangement and interactions of cell wall polymers produce the mechanical properties of primary cell walls…”
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Gibberellin-Induced Changes in Growth Anisotropy Precede Gibberellin-Dependent Changes in Cortical Microtubule Orientation in Developing Epidermal Cells of Barley Leaves. Kinematic and Cytological Studies on a Gibberellin-Responsive Dwarf Mutant, M489 by Carol L. Wenzel, Williamson, Richard E., Wasteneys, Geoffrey O.

“…We conducted kinematic and cytological studies on "between vein" epidermal cells of the gibberellin (GA)-deficient M489 dwarf mutant of barley (Hordeum vulgare…”
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temperature-sensitive allele of a putative mRNA splicing helicase down-regulates many cell wall genes and causes radial swelling in Arabidopsis thaliana by Howles, Paul A, Gebbie, Leigh K, Collings, David A, Varsani, Arvind, Broad, Ronan C, Ohms, Stephen, Birch, Rosemary J, Cork, Ann H, Arioli, Tony, Williamson, Richard E

“…The putative RNA helicase encoded by the Arabidopsis gene At1g32490 is a homolog of the yeast splicing RNA helicases Prp2 and Prp22. We isolated a…”
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Arabidopsis dynamin-like protein DRP1A: a null mutant with widespread defects in endocytosis, cellulose synthesis, cytokinesis, and cell expansion by Collings, David A, Gebbie, Leigh K, Howles, Paul A, Hurley, Ursula A, Birch, Rosemary J, Cork, Ann H, Hocart, Charles H, Arioli, Tony, Williamson, Richard E

“…Dynamin-related proteins are large GTPases that deform and cause fission of membranes. The DRP1 family of Arabidopsis thaliana has five members of which DRP1A,…”
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Features of the primary wall CESA complex in wild type and cellulose-deficient mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana by Wang, Jian, Elliott, Janet E, Williamson, Richard E

“…Evidence from genetics, co-precipitation and bimolecular fluorescence complementation suggest that three CESAs implicated in making primary wall cellulose in…”
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Chimeric Proteins Suggest That the Catalytic and/or C-Terminal Domains Give CesA1 and CesA3 Access to Their Specific Sites in the Cellulose Synthase of Primary Walls by Wang, Jian, Howles, Paul A, Cork, Ann H, Birch, Rosemary J, Williamson, Richard E

“…CesA1 and CesA3 are thought to occupy noninterchangeable sites in the cellulose synthase making primary wall cellulose in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana L…”
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Molecular analysis of cellulose biosynthesis in Arabidopsis by Arioli, T. (Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.), Peng, L, Betzner, A.S, Burn, J, Wittke, W, Herth, W, Camilleri, C, Hofte, H, Plazinski, J, Birch, R

“…Cellulose, an abundant, crystalline polysaccharide, is central to plant morphogenesis and to many industries. Chemical and ultrastructural analyses together…”
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WallGen, Software to Construct Layered Cellulose-Hemicellulose Networks and Predict Their Small Deformation Mechanics1 by Kha, Hung, Tuble, Sigrid C, Kalyanasundaram, Shankar, Williamson, Richard E

“…We understand few details about how the arrangement and interactions of cell wall polymers produce the mechanical properties of primary cell walls…”
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Temperature-Sensitive Alleles of RSW2 Link the KORRIGAN Endo-1,4-β-Glucanase to Cellulose Synthesis and Cytokinesis in Arabidopsis by Lane, Diana R., Allison Wiedemeier, Peng, Liangcai, Höfte, Herman, Vernhettes, Samantha, Desprez, Thierry, Charles H. Hocart, Rosemary J. Birch, Baskin, Tobias I., Burn, Joanne E., Arioli, Tony, Betzner, Andreas S., Williamson, Richard E.

“…An 8.5-kb cosmid containing the KORRIGAN gene complements the cellulose-deficient rsw2-1 mutant of Arabidopsis. Three temperature-sensitive alleles of rsw2…”
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Functional Analysis of the Cellulose Synthase Genes CesA1, CesA2, and CesA3 in Arabidopsis by Burn, Joanne E., Charles H. Hocart, Rosemary J. Birch, Ann C. Cork, Williamson, Richard E.

“…Polysaccharide analyses of mutants link several of the glycosyltransferases encoded by the 10 CesA genes of Arabidopsis to cellulose synthesis. Features of…”
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Genes encoding ADP-ribosylation factors in Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heyn.; genome analysis and antisense suppression by Gebbie, Leigh K, Burn, Joanne E, Hocart, Charles H, Williamson, Richard E

“…Vesicle trafficking delivers proteins to intracellular and extracellular compartments, cellulose synthase to the plasma membrane, and non-cellulosic…”
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