title: Structural and mechanical characterization of growing Arabidopsis plant cell walls.
abstract: This book chapter describes how structural and mechanical properties of living Arabidopsis hypocotyls can be measured by using small-angle X-ray scattering and micromechanical tensile tests. This approach is particularly useful to detect structural differences between selected mutants and to show how these differences are reflected in the tensile properties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomaterials, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany, friederike.saxe@mpikg.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Friederike
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Saxe
authors.forename: Ingo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Burgert
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eder
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000737:chemistry; D018546:Hypocotyl / Q000737:chemistry*; D053838:Scattering, Small Angle; D013718:Tensile Strength