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ArticlePlant, cell & environment2025

In a Different Light: Irradiation-Induced Cuticular Wax Accumulation Fails to Reduce Cuticular Transpiration.

Lena Herzig, Kora Uellendahl, Yaron Malkowsky, Lukas Schreiber, Paul Grünhofer

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Article in Plant, cell & environment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Lena HerzigDepartment of Ecophysiology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3037-8667
Kora UellendahlDepartment of Ecophysiology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-1051-3314
Yaron MalkowskyDepartment of Biodiversity of Plants, Bonn Institute for Organismic Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Lukas SchreiberDepartment of Ecophysiology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7003-9929
Paul GrünhoferDepartment of Ecophysiology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6298-5656

Funding

This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation; SCHR17/1; Project number 391657309 and project number 471591895).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cuticle, an extracellular hydrophobic layer impregnated with waxy lipids, serves as the primary interface between plant leaves and their environment and is thus subject to external cues. A previous study on poplar leaves revealed that environmental conditions outdoors promoted the deposition of about 10-fold more cuticular wax compared to the highly artificial climate of a growth chamber. Given that light was the most significant variable distinguishing the two locations, we hypothesized that the quantity of light might serve as a key driver of foliar wax accumulation. Thus, this study aimed to isolate the factor of light quantity (photosynthetic photon flux density [PPFD]) from other environmental stimuli (such as relative humidity and ambient temperature) and explore its impact on cuticular wax deposition and subsequent rates of residual foliar transpiration in different species. Analytical investigations revealed a significant increase in cuticular wax amount with increasing PPFD (between 50 and 1200 µmol m

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LightPlant EpidermisPlant TranspirationWaxesHordeumHumidityPhotosynthesisPlant LeavesTemperatureWaterWaterWaxescuticular waxenvironmental growth conditionsfoliar reflectancelight quantityplant morphologyresidual (cuticular) transpiration

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