Inflated Sporopollenin Exine Capsules Obtained from Thin-Walled Pollen.

ABSTRACT: Sporopollenin is a physically robust and chemically resilient biopolymer that comprises the outermost layer of pollen walls and is the first line of defense against harsh environmental conditions. The unique physicochemical properties of sporopollenin increasingly motivate the extraction of sporopollenin exine capsules (SECs) from pollen walls as a renewable source of organic microcapsules for encapsulation applications. Despite the wide range of different pollen species with varying sizes and wall thicknesses, faithful extraction of pollen-mimetic SECs has been limited to thick-walled pollen capsules with rigid mechanical properties. There is an unmet need to develop methods for producing SECs from thin-walled pollen capsules which constitute a large fraction of all pollen species and hav

SUBMITTER: Park JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908411 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature