title: Cell wall elastic constitutive laws and stress-strain behavior of plant vegetative tissue.
abstract: The appropriateness of several elastic constitutive laws for apple and potato cell walls is tested using uniform cell inflation data. Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000502:physiology; D004548:Elasticity; D005638:Fruit; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000166:cytology*; D012212:Rheology; D011198:Solanum tuberosum; D013314:Stress, Mechanical