Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Preface xiii
Section 1 Factors Controlling Plant Cell Wall Patterning 1
1 The Biosynthesis and Function of Polysaccharide Components of the Plant Cell Wall 3 Ryusuke Yokoyama, Naoki Shinohara, Rin Asaoka, Hideki Narukawa and Kazuhiko Nishitani
2 Regulation of Cell Wall Formation by Membrane Traffic 35 Clara Sánchez-Rodríguez and Staffan Persson
3 A Blueprint for Cellulose Biosynthesis, Deposition, and Regulation in Plants 65 Ian S. Wallace and Chris R. Somerville
4 Cortical Microtubule Array Organization and Plant Cell Morphogenesis 97 Sidney L. Shaw and Laura Vineyard
5 Actin Filament Dynamics and their Role in Plant Cell Expansion 127 Jiejie Li, Ruthie Arieti and Christopher J. Staiger
Section 2 Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Various Cell Shapes 163
6 The Regulation of Cell Shape Formation by ROP-dependent Auxin Signaling 165 Shingo Nagawa and Zhenbiao Yang
7 Xylem Cell Wall Pattern Formation Regulated by Microtubule-associated Proteins and ROP GTPases 191 Yoshihisa Oda and Hiroo Fukuda
8 ROP Signaling and the Cytoskeleton in Pollen Tube Growth 215 Lei Zhu and Ying Fu
9 Phosphoinositide Signaling in Root Hair Tip Growth 239 Hiroaki Kusano, Rumi Tominaga, Takuji Wada, Mariko Kato and Takashi Aoyama
10 Arabidopsis Trichome Morphogenesis and the Role of Microtubules in Controlling Trichome Branch Formation 269 M. David Marks
11 Transfer Cells: Novel Cell Types with Unique Wall Ingrowth Architecture Designed for Optimized Nutrient Transport 287 David W. McCurdy
Section 3 Developmental Regulations of Cell Shape 319
12 Regulation of Guard Cell Formation by Integration of Transcriptional and Signaling Regulation 321 Chin-Min Kimmy Ho and Dominique C. Bergmann
13 Transcriptional Regulation of Biosynthesis of Cell Wall Components during Xylem Differentiation 351 Ruiqin Zhong and Zheng-Hua Ye
14 Phloem Cell Development 379 Raffael Lichtenberger, Kaori Furuta-Miyashima, Eva Hellmann and Ykä Helariutta
Index 401