Cuticle architecture and mechanical properties: a functional relationship delineated through correlated multimodal imaging

Autor: Nicolas Reynoud, Nathalie Geneix, Angelina D’Orlando, Johann Petit, Jeremie Mathurin, Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Didier Marion, Christophe Rothan, Marc Lahaye, Bénédicte Bakan
Přispěvatelé: Unité de recherche sur les Biopolymères, Interactions Assemblages (BIA), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), BioInformatique et BioStatistiques (BIBS), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biologie du fruit et pathologie (BFP), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut de Chimie Physique (ICP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INRAE and Region Pays de la Loire (Fr)., ANR-21-CE11-0035,COPLAnAR,COPLAnAR : cartography corrélative pour élucider les relations structure-propriétés de la cuticule des plantes(2021)
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: New Phytologist
New Phytologist, 2023, 238 (5), pp.2033-2046. ⟨10.1111/nph.18862⟩
ISSN: 1469-8137
0028-646X
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18862
Popis: Cuticle are multifunctional hydrophobic biocomposites that protect aerial organs of plants. Along plant development, plant cuticle must accommodate different mechanical constraints combining extensibility and stiffness, the corresponding structure-function relationships are unknown. Recent data showed a fine architectural tuning of the cuticle architecture and the corresponding chemical clusters along fruit development which raise the question of their impact on the mechanical properties of the cuticle.We investigated the in-depth nanomechanical properties of tomato fruit cuticle from early development to ripening, in relation to chemical and structural heterogeneities by developing a correlative multimodal imaging approach.Unprecedented sharps heterogeneities were evidenced with the highlighting of an in-depth mechanical gradient and a ‘soft’ central furrow that were maintained throughout the plant development despite the overall increase in elastic modulus. In addition, we demonstrated that these local mechanical areas are correlated to chemical and structural gradients.This study shed light on a fine tuning of mechanical properties of cuticle through the modulation of their architecture, providing new insight for our understanding of structure-function relationships of plant cuticle and for the design of biosinpired material.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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