{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Yu J"],"funding":["U.S. Department of Energy","U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)","MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)","MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["e2316396121"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10786299"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["121(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Plant epidermal cell walls maintain the mechanical integrity of plants and restrict organ growth. Mechanical analyses can give insights into wall structure and are inputs for mechanobiology models of plant growth. To better understand the intrinsic mechanics of epidermal cell walls and how they may accommodate large deformations during growth, we analyzed a geometrically simple material, onion epidermal strips consisting of only the outer (periclinal) cell wall, ~7 μm thick. With uniaxial stretching by >40%, the wall showed complex three-phase stress-strain responses while cyclic stretching revealed reversible and irreversible deformations and elastic hysteresis. Stretching at varying strain rates and temperatures indicated the wall behaved more like a network of flexible cellulose fibers "],"journal":["Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"],"pubmed_title":["The nonlinear mechanics of highly extensible plant epidermal cell walls."],"pmcid":["PMC10786299"],"funding_grant_id":["DE-SC0001090","12372163"],"pubmed_authors":["Zhang Y","Yu J","Cosgrove DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The nonlinear mechanics of highly extensible plant epidermal cell walls.","description":"Plant epidermal cell walls maintain the mechanical integrity of plants and restrict organ growth. Mechanical analyses can give insights into wall structure and are inputs for mechanobiology models of plant growth. To better understand the intrinsic mechanics of epidermal cell walls and how they may accommodate large deformations during growth, we analyzed a geometrically simple material, onion epidermal strips consisting of only the outer (periclinal) cell wall, ~7 μm thick. With uniaxial stretching by >40%, the wall showed complex three-phase stress-strain responses while cyclic stretching revealed reversible and irreversible deformations and elastic hysteresis. Stretching at varying strain rates and temperatures indicated the wall behaved more like a network of flexible cellulose fibers ","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jan","modification":"2025-04-18T15:28:53.29Z","creation":"2025-04-07T02:11:40.298Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10786299","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38165937"],"doi":["10.1073/pnas.2316396121"]}}