Staffan Persson

Current and future advances in fluorescence-based visualization of plant cell wall components and cell wall biosynthetic machineries.

Brian T DeVree, Lisa M Steiner, Sylwia Głazowska, Felix Ruhnow, Klaus Herburger, Staffan Persson, Jozef Mravec

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biotechnology for Biofuels

Plant cell wall-derived biomass serves as a renewable source of energy and materials with increasing importance. The cell walls ar..

Structure of Arabidopsis CESA3 catalytic domain with its substrate UDP-glucose provides insight into the mechanism of cellulose synthesis

Zhu Qiao, Edwin R Lampugnani, Xin-Fu Yan, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Wuan Geok Saw, Patrick Hannah, Feng Qian, Jacob Calabria, Yansong Miao, Gerhard Gruber, Staffan Persson, Yong-Gui Gao

Journal article  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Cellulose is synthesized by cellulose synthases (CESAs) from the glycosyltransferase GT-2 family. In plants, the CESAs form a six-..

Salt with a sweet tooth: galactan synthesis impacts salt tolerance in Arabidopsis.

Liu Wang, Edwin R Lampugnani, Staffan Persson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Molecular Plant

Long-term single-cell imaging and simulations of microtubules reveal principles behind wall patterning during proto-xylem development

Rene Schneider, Kris van't Klooster, Kelsey L Picard, Jasper van der Gucht, Taku Demura, Marcel Janson, Arun Sampathkumar, Eva E Deinum, Tijs Ketelaar, Staffan Persson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nature Communications

Plants are the tallest organisms on Earth; a feature sustained by solute-transporting xylem vessels in the plant vasculature. The ..

A network-based framework for shape analysis enables accurate characterization of leaf epidermal cells

Jacqueline Nowak, Ryan Christopher Eng, Timon Matz, Matti Waack, Staffan Persson, Arun Sampathkumar, Zoran Nikoloski

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nature Communications

Cell shape is crucial for the function and development of organisms. Yet, versatile frameworks for cell shape quantification, comp..

Differentiation of Tracheary Elements in Sugarcane Suspension Cells Involves Changes in Secondary Wall Deposition and Extensive Transcriptional Reprogramming

Marcella Siqueira Simoes, Savio Siqueira Ferreira, Adriana Grandis, Jorge Rencoret, Staffan Persson, Eny Iochevet Segal Floh, Andre Ferraz, Jose C del Rio, Marcos Silveira Buckeridge, Igor Cesarino

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant lignocellulosic biomass, mostly composed of polysaccharide-rich secondary cell walls (SCWs), provides fermentable sugars tha..

Grass-Specific EPAD1 Is Essential for Pollen Exine Patterning in Rice

HuanJun Li, Yu-Jin Kim, Liu Yang, Ze Liu, Jie Zhang, Haotian Shi, Guoqiang Huang, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang, Wanqi Liang

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Plant Cell

The highly variable and species-specific pollen surface patterns are formed by sporopollenin accumulation. The template for sporop..

Associations between phytohormones and cellulose biosynthesis in land plants

Liu Wang, Bret E Hart, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Edward R Cruz, Staffan Persson, Ian S Wallace

Journal article  |  2020  |  Annals of Botany

Background Phytohormones are small molecules that regulate virtually every aspect of plant growth and development, from basic cell..

CELLULOSE SYNTHASE INTERACTING 1 is required for wood mechanics and leaf morphology in aspen

Anne Bunder, Ola Sundman, Amir Mahboubi, Staffan Persson, Shawn D Mansfield, Markus Ruggeberg, Totte Niittyla

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Plant Journal

Cellulose microfibrils synthesized by CELLULOSE SYNTHASE COMPLEXES (CSCs) are the main load‐bearing polymers in wood. CELLULOSE SY..

Bright Fluorescent Vacuolar Marker Lines Allow Vacuolar Tracing Across Multiple Tissues and Stress Conditions in Rice

Yiran Cao, Wenguo Cai, Xiaofei Chen, Mingjiao Chen, Jianjun Chu, Wanqi Liang, Staffan Persson, Zengyu Liu, Dabing Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The vacuole is indispensable for cells to maintain their water potential and to respond to environmental changes. Nevertheless, in..