Predicting cell wall mechanics from structure in a materials engineering approach to plant growth

从植物生长材料工程方法中的结构预测细胞壁力学

• 批准号: DP0665069
• 负责人: Prof Richard Williamson
• 金额: $ 15.89万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0665069
• 关键词: Predicting; cell; wall; mechanics; structure

The project fosters a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the structure of plant cell walls determines their mechanical properties. Such understanding requires combining biological and engineering approaches and will illuminate how plants grow and produce cells and organs with particular shapes. This is scientifically important but is also important for industries depending on specialised cell shapes such as those of cotton and wood fibres. Our work will improve our understanding of how wall structure determines fibre and other cell shapes and give us tools which can be used to understand how final wall structure determines the fibre mechanics on which industrial users depend.

该项目促进了一种新颖的跨学科方法，以了解植物细胞壁的结构如何决定其机械性能。这种理解需要结合生物学和工程学方法，并将阐明植物如何生长和产生具有特定形状的细胞和器官。这在科学上很重要，但对于依赖于特殊细胞形状的行业也很重要，例如棉花和木纤维。我们的工作将提高我们对壁结构如何决定纤维和其他细胞形状的理解，并为我们提供工具，可用于了解最终壁结构如何决定工业用户所依赖的纤维力学。