Plants Utilize Suberin Biopolymers as a Vector for Transmitting Visible Light through Their Roots.

Spenser Waller, Stacy L Wilder, Michael J Schueller, Richard A Ferrieri

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Article in Polymers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Spenser WallerMissouri Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

Stacy L WilderMissouri Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

Michael J SchuellerMissouri Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

Richard A FerrieriMissouri Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2604-0014

University of Missouri · US

Funding

United States Department of Agriculture 2017-67013-26216

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants conduct light from their aboveground tissues belowground to their root system. This phenomenon may influence root growth and perhaps serve to stimulate natural biological functions of the microorganisms associating with them. Here we show that light transmission in maize roots largely occurs within the endodermis, a region rich in suberin polyester biopolymers. Using cork as a natural resource rich in suberin polymers, we extracted, depolymerized, and examined light transmission in the visible and infrared regions. Suberin co-monomers dissolved in toluene showed no evidence of enhanced light transmission over that of the pure solvent in the visible light region and reduced light transmission in the infrared region. However, when these co-monomers were catalytically repolymerized using Bi(OTf)

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plant light conductionroot endodermissuberin biopolymers

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PMID36559753

DOI10.3390/polym14245387

PMCPMC9782166

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