ArticleBiophysical journal2007
Guard cells elongate: relationship of volume and surface area during stomatal movement.
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- Cell wall anisotropy plays a key role in Zea mays stomatal complex movement: the possible role of the cell wall matrix.Plant molecular biology · 2023Article
- Vacuolar control of stomatal opening revealed by 3D imaging of the guard cells.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cell wall fucosylation in Arabidopsis influences control of leaf water loss and alters stomatal development and mechanical properties.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Article
- Automated 3D segmentation of guard cells enables volumetric analysis of stomatal biomechanics.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Correlation of vacuole morphology with stomatal lineage development by whole-cell electron tomography.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Turgor pressure change in stomatal guard cells arises from interactions between water influx and mechanical responses of their cell walls.Quantitative plant biology · 2022Article
- Nutrient cycling is an important mechanism for homeostasis in plant cells.Plant physiology · 2021Article
- PECTATE LYASE LIKE12 patterns the guard cell wall to coordinate turgor pressure and wall mechanics for proper stomatal function in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2021Article
- Differential Morpho-Physiological and Transcriptomic Responses to Heat Stress in Two Blueberry Species.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Environmental pressures on stomatal size may drive plant genome size evolution: evidence from a natural experiment with Cape geophytes.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- Variation in genome size, cell and nucleus volume, chromosome number and rDNA loci among duckweeds.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Mechanical Effects of Cellulose, Xyloglucan, and Pectins on Stomatal Guard Cells ofFrontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Actin filaments regulate the adhesion between the plasma membrane and the cell wall of tobacco guard cells.Protoplasma · 2018Article
- Stomatal Opening Involves Polar, Not Radial, Stiffening Of Guard Cells.Current biology : CB · 2017Article
- Clathrin Heavy Chain Subunits Coordinate Endo- and Exocytic Traffic and Affect Stomatal Movement.Plant physiology · 2017Article
- A computational approach for inferring the cell wall properties that govern guard cell dynamics.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Stomata in the epidermis of photosynthetically active plant organs are formed by pairs of guard cells, which create a pore, to facilitate CO2 and water exchange with the environment. To control this gas exchange, guard cells actively change their volume and, consequently, surface area to alter the aperture of the stomatal pore. Due to the limited elasticity of the plasma membrane, such changes in surface area require an exocytic addition or endocytic retrieval of membrane during stomatal movement. Using confocal microscopic data, we have reconstructed detailed three-dimensional models of open and closed stomata to precisely quantify the necessary area to be exo- and endocytosed by the guard cells. Images were obtained under a strong emphasis on a precise calibration of the method and by avoiding unphysiological osmotical imbalance, and hence osmocytosis. The data reveal that guard cells of Vicia faba L., whose aperture increases by 111.89+/-22.39%, increase in volume and surface area by 24.82+/-6.26% and 14.99+/-2.62%, respectively. In addition, the precise volume to surface area relationship allows quantitative modeling of the three-dimensional changes. While the major volume change is caused by a slight increase in the cross section of the cells, an elongation of the guard cells achieves the main aperture change.
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