Methods to quantify primary plant cell wall mechanics

Growth and biomechanics of shoot organs

(2019) Emilie Echevin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Mathematical principles and models of plant growth mechanics: from cell wall dynamics to tissue morphogenesis

(2019) E T Smithers et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Volumetric finite-element modelling of biological growth

(2019) Richard Kennaway et al.   Open Biology

Measurement accuracy and uncertainty in plant biomechanics

(2019) Nathanael Nelson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Feeling Stressed or Strained? A Biophysical Model for Cell Wall Mechanosensing in Plants

(2019) Antoine Fruleux et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

3D bioprinting of tissues and organs for regenerative medicine

(2018) Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Brillouin microscopy

(2018) Seok Hyun Yun et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN OPHTHALMOLOGY

How cells sense their own shape – mechanisms to probe cell geometry and their implications in cellular organization and function

(2018) Armin Haupt et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Reply to ‘Water content, not stiffness, dominates Brillouin spectroscopy measurements in hydrated materials’

(2018) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   NATURE METHODS

Water content, not stiffness, dominates Brillouin spectroscopy measurements in hydrated materials

(2018) Pei-Jung Wu et al.   NATURE METHODS

How mechanical forces shape the developing eye

(2018) Hadi S. Hosseini et al.   PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A tension-adhesion feedback loop in plant epidermis

(2018) Stéphane Verger et al.   eLife

Why plants make puzzle cells, and how their shape emerges

(2018) Aleksandra Sapala et al.   eLife

Nanoscale structure, mechanics and growth of epidermal cell walls

(2018) Daniel J Cosgrove   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

On the effect of local sample slope during modulus measurements by contact-resonance atomic force microscopy

(2018) K. Heinze et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Anisotropic growth is achieved through the additive mechanical effect of material anisotropy and elastic asymmetry

(2018) Firas Bou Daher et al.   eLife

A Statistical Model of Expansive Growth in Plant and Fungal Cells: The Case of Phycomyces

(2018) Shankar Lalitha Sridhar et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cellular basis of growth in plants: geometry matters

(2018) Daniel Kierzkowski et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Changes in cell wall stiffness and microstructure in ultrasonically treated apple

(2017) Piotr M. Pieczywek et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING

A multiscale FEA framework for bridging cell-wall to tissue-scale mechanical properties: the contributions of middle lamella interface and cell shape

(2017) M. Shafayet Zamil et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Bio-inspired “jigsaw”-like interlocking sutures: Modeling, optimization, 3D printing and testing

(2017) I.A. Malik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Characterization of size-dependent mechanical properties of tip-growing cells using a lab-on-chip device

(2017) Chengzhi Hu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Printing Non-Euclidean Solids

(2017) Giuseppe Zurlo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

An Automated Confocal Micro-Extensometer Enables in Vivo Quantification of Mechanical Properties with Cellular Resolution

(2017) Sarah Robinson et al.   PLANT CELL

Finite Element Modeling of Shape Changes in Plant Cells

(2017) Amir J. Bidhendi et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

High-Performance Versatile Setup for Simultaneous Brillouin-Raman Microspectroscopy

(2017) F. Scarponi et al.   Physical Review X

Impulsive Brillouin microscopy

(2017) Charles W. Ballmann et al.   Optica

Sample geometry dependency on the measured tensile properties of cellulose nanopapers

(2017) Martin Hervy et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Architected Cellular Materials

(2016) Tobias A. Schaedler et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

The Impact of Microfibril Orientations on the Biomechanics of Plant Cell Walls and Tissues

(2016) Mariya Ptashnyk et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Actuators Acting without Actin

(2016) Anja Geitmann   CELL

Isotropic and anisotropic elasticity and yielding of 3D printed material

(2016) Rui Zou et al.   COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING

Stomatal Function Requires Pectin De-methyl-esterification of the Guard Cell Wall

(2016) Sam Amsbury et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

3D printing with polymers: Challenges among expanding options and opportunities

(2016) Jeffrey W. Stansbury et al.   DENTAL MATERIALS

Mapping nano-scale mechanical heterogeneity of primary plant cell walls

(2016) Gleb E. Yakubov et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Scatter in tensile properties of flax fibre bundles: influence of determination and calculation of the cross-sectional area

(2016) Katharina Haag et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

On the origin of indentation size effects and depth dependent mechanical properties of elastic polymers

(2016) Chung-Souk Han et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER ENGINEERING

Plant cell walls to reinforce composite materials: Relationship between nanoindentation and tensile modulus

(2016) Morgane Tanguy et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

How do plants read their own shapes?

(2016) Olivier Hamant et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Spatial organization of cellulose microfibrils and matrix polysaccharides in primary plant cell walls as imaged by multichannel atomic force microscopy

(2016) Tian Zhang et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Hierarchies of plant stiffness

(2016) Veronique Brulé et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Mapping the subcellular mechanical properties of live cells in tissues with fluorescence emission-Brillouin imaging

(2016) K. Elsayad et al.   Science Signaling

Recent progressive use of atomic force microscopy in biomedical applications

(2016) Uroš Maver et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Seeing cells in a new light: a renaissance of Brillouin spectroscopy

(2016) Zhaokai Meng et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Mapping the subcellular mechanical properties of live cells in tissues with fluorescence emission-Brillouin imaging

(2016) K. Elsayad et al.   Science Signaling

Age Effects on Hypocotyl Mechanics

(2016) Friederike Saxe et al.   PLoS One

Line-scanning Brillouin microscopy for rapid non-invasive mechanical imaging

(2016) Jitao Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Biomechanics of subcellular structures by non-invasive Brillouin microscopy

(2016) Giuseppe Antonacci et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiscale stress-strain characterization of onion outer epidermal tissue in wet and dry states

(2015) K. Kim et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Quantifying Hydrostatic Pressure in Plant Cells by Using Indentation with an Atomic Force Microscope

(2015) Léna Beauzamy et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A 3-dimensional fibre scaffold as an investigative tool for studying the morphogenesis of isolated plant cells

(2015) CJ Luo et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Examination of biological hotspot hypothesis of primary cell wall using a computational cell wall network model

(2015) Abdolmadjid Nili et al.   CELLULOSE

The Control of Growth Symmetry Breaking in the Arabidopsis Hypocotyl

(2015) Alexis Peaucelle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Relating the mechanics of the primary plant cell wall to morphogenesis

(2015) Amir J. Bidhendi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Measuring the mechanical properties of plant cells by combining micro-indentation with osmotic treatments

(2015) Alain Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant cell wall extensibility: connecting plant cell growth with cell wall structure, mechanics, and the action of wall-modifying enzymes

(2015) Daniel J. Cosgrove   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The mechanical properties of plant cell walls soft material at the subcellular scale: the implications of water and of the intercellular boundaries

(2015) M. Shafayet Zamil et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Investigating cell mechanics with atomic force microscopy

(2015) K. Haase et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Noncontact three-dimensional mapping of intracellular hydromechanical properties by Brillouin microscopy

(2015) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   NATURE METHODS

A scanning acoustic microscope based on picosecond ultrasonics

(2015) S. Che et al.   ULTRASONICS

Microfluidic Strategies for Understanding the Mechanics of Cells and Cell-Mimetic Systems

(2015) Joanna B. Dahl et al.   Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

All-optical broadband ultrasonography of single cells

(2015) T. Dehoux et al.   Scientific Reports

Patterning mechanisms of cytoskeletal and cell wall systems during leaf trichome morphogenesis

(2015) Makoto Yanagisawa et al.   Nature Plants

Physical Models of Plant Development

(2014) Olivier Ali et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

A Comparative Mechanical Analysis of Plant and Animal Cells Reveals Convergence across Kingdoms

(2014) Pauline Durand-Smet et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

If Cell Mechanics Can Be Described by Elastic Modulus: Study of Different Models and Probes Used in Indentation Experiments

(2014) Nataliia Guz et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Effect of fiber orientation on fatigue crack propagation in short-fiber reinforced plastics

(2014) Keisuke Tanaka et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Mechanical effects of the surface ectoderm on optic vesicle morphogenesis in the chick embryo

(2014) Hadi S. Hosseini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Dynamic, high precision targeting of growth modulating agents is able to trigger pollen tube growth reorientation

(2014) Amir Sanati Nezhad et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Matching Patterns of Gene Expression to Mechanical Stiffness at Cell Resolution through Quantitative Tandem Epifluorescence and Nanoindentation

(2014) P. Milani et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Transverse mechanical properties of cell walls of single living plant cells probed by laser-generated acoustic waves

(2014) Atef Gadalla et al.   PLANTA

Effect of Layer Thickness and Printing Orientation on Mechanical Properties and Dimensional Accuracy of 3D Printed Porous Samples for Bone Tissue Engineering

(2014) Arghavan Farzadi et al.   PLoS One

Overcoming the brittleness of glass through bio-inspiration and micro-architecture

(2014) M. Mirkhalaf et al.   Nature Communications

Frequency, amplitude, and phase measurements in contact resonance atomic force microscopies

(2014) Gheorghe Stan et al.   Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

Stress and Strain Provide Positional and Directional Cues in Development

(2014) Behruz Bozorg et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Subcellular and supracellular mechanical stress prescribes cytoskeleton behavior in Arabidopsis cotyledon pavement cells

(2014) Arun Sampathkumar et al.   eLife

Decoupling Cell and Matrix Mechanics in Engineered Microtissues Using Magnetically Actuated Microcantilevers

(2013) Ruogang Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Characterizing microscale biological samples under tensile loading: Stress-strain behavior of cell wall fragment of onion outer epidermis

(2013) M. S. Zamil et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Fluorescence-Based Force/Tension Sensors: A Novel Tool to Visualize Mechanical Forces in Structural Proteins in Live Cells

(2013) Jun Guo et al.   ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING

Visualization of the nanoscale pattern of recently-deposited cellulose microfibrils and matrix materials in never-dried primary walls of the onion epidermis

(2013) Tian Zhang et al.   CELLULOSE

Plant micro- and nanomechanics: experimental techniques for plant cell-wall analysis

(2013) Ingo Burgert et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant biomechanics and mechanobiology are convergent paths to flourishing interdisciplinary research

(2013) B. Moulia   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Shrinking the hammer: micromechanical approaches to morphogenesis

(2013) Pascale Milani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Finite element modelling of the mechanical behaviour of onion epidermis with incorporation of nonlinear properties of cell walls and real tissue geometry

(2013) Piotr M. Pieczywek et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING

Quantification of the Young's modulus of the primary plant cell wall using Bending-Lab-On-Chip (BLOC)

(2013) Amir Sanati Nezhad et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Quantifying cell-generated mechanical forces within living embryonic tissues

(2013) Otger Campàs et al.   NATURE METHODS

How mechanical stress controls microtubule behavior and morphogenesis in plants: history, experiments and revisited theories

(2013) Benoît Landrein et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Mechano-Chemical Aspects of Organ Formation in Arabidopsis thaliana: The Relationship between Auxin and Pectin

(2013) Siobhan A. Braybrook et al.   PLoS One

Stiffness Dependent Separation of Cells in a Microfluidic Device

(2013) Gonghao Wang et al.   PLoS One

Quantification of cellular penetrative forces using lab-on-a-chip technology and finite element modeling

(2013) A. Sanati Nezhad et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scanning acoustic microscopy for characterization of neoplastic and inflammatory lesions of lymph nodes

(2013) Katsutoshi Miura et al.   Scientific Reports

Atomic Force Microscopy Stiffness Tomography on Living Arabidopsis thaliana Cells Reveals the Mechanical Properties of Surface and Deep Cell-Wall Layers during Growth

(2012) Ksenija Radotić et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Inhomogeneous deformation of brain tissue during tension tests

(2012) Badar Rashid et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Mechanical Regulation of Auxin-Mediated Growth

(2012) Naomi Nakayama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Measuring the mechanics of morphogenesis

(2012) Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Effect of Preconditioning and Stress Relaxation on Local Collagen Fiber Re-Alignment: Inhomogeneous Properties of Rat Supraspinatus Tendon

(2012) Kristin S. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

On the specimen length dependency of tensile mechanical properties in soft tissues: Gripping effects and the characteristic decay length

(2012) Afshin Anssari-Benam et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Consistent quasistatic and acoustic elasticity determination of poly-L-lactide-based rapid-prototyped tissue engineering scaffolds

(2012) Krzysztof W. Luczynski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Viscoelastic properties of cell walls of single living plant cells determined by dynamic nanoindentation

(2012) Céline M. Hayot et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Mechanical properties of epidermal cells of whole living roots ofArabidopsis thaliana: An atomic force microscopy study

(2012) Anwesha N. Fernandes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

In vivoextraction of Arabidopsis cell turgor pressure using nanoindentation in conjunction with finite element modeling

(2012) Elham Forouzesh et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The pollen tube: a soft shell with a hard core

(2012) Hannes Vogler et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

TipChip: a modular, MEMS-based platform for experimentation and phenotyping of tip-growing cells

(2012) Carlos G. Agudelo et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Architecture-Based Multiscale Computational Modeling of Plant Cell Wall Mechanics to Examine the Hydrogen-Bonding Hypothesis of the Cell Wall Network Structure Model

(2012) H. Yi et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Cellular Force Microscopy for in Vivo Measurements of Plant Tissue Mechanics

(2012) A.-L. Routier-Kierzkowska et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Elastic Domains Regulate Growth and Organogenesis in the Plant Shoot Apical Meristem

(2012) D. Kierzkowski et al.   SCIENCE

Experimental micromechanical characterisation of wood cell walls

(2012) Michaela Eder et al.   WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Deep-tissue focal fluorescence imaging with digitally time-reversed ultrasound-encoded light

(2012) Ying Min Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Giant Enhancement of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Subwavelength Limit

(2012) Peter T. Rakich et al.   Physical Review X

In Vivo Measurement of Age-Related Stiffening in the Crystalline Lens by Brillouin Optical Microscopy

(2011) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The relation between indentation modulus, microfibril angle, and elastic properties of wood cell walls

(2011) A. Jäger et al.   COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

A survey of test methods for multiaxial and out-of-plane strength of composite laminates

(2011) Robin Olsson   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pectin-Induced Changes in Cell Wall Mechanics Underlie Organ Initiation in Arabidopsis

(2011) Alexis Peaucelle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) Based Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications

(2011) Muhammad Waseem Ashraf et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

In vivo analysis of local wall stiffness at the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis using atomic force microscopy

(2011) Pascale Milani et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Strain Stiffening in Synthetic and Biopolymer Networks

(2010) Kendra A. Erk et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Atomic force microscopy probing in the measurement of cell mechanics

(2010) Dimitrios Kirmizis   International Journal of Nanomedicine

A finite element model for mechanical deformation of single tomato suspension cells

(2010) E. Dintwa et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING

An improved microtensile technique for mechanical characterization of short plant fibers: a case study on bamboo fibers

(2010) Yan Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Finite Element Model of Polar Growth in Pollen Tubes

(2010) P. Fayant et al.   PLANT CELL

Coordination of plant cell division and expansion in a simple morphogenetic system

(2010) L. Dupuy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An introduction to the mechanics of morphogenesis for plant biologists

(2010) Arezki Boudaoud   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Alignment between PIN1 Polarity and Microtubule Orientation in the Shoot Apical Meristem Reveals a Tight Coupling between Morphogenesis and Auxin Transport

(2010) Marcus G. Heisler et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Depth-profiling of elastic inhomogeneities in transparent nanoporous low-k materials by picosecond ultrasonic interferometry

(2009) C. Mechri et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Versatile Horizontal Force Probe for Mechanical Tests on Pipette-Held Cells, Particles, and Membrane Capsules

(2009) Chawin Ounkomol et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Oral Cancer Diagnosis by Mechanical Phenotyping

(2009) T. W. Remmerbach et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

Polar growth in pollen tubes is associated with spatially confined dynamic changes in cell mechanical properties

(2009) Rabah Zerzour et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Assessment of Microelastic Properties of Bone Using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy: A Face-to-Face Comparison with Nanoindentation

(2009) Fabienne Rupin et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Micro- and nanoscale tensile testing of materials

(2009) D. S. Gianola et al.   JOM

Minimizing specimen length in elastic testing of end-constrained cancellous bone

(2009) W.B. Lievers et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Simultaneous estimation of Poisson's ratio and Young's modulus using a single indentation: a finite element study

(2009) Y P Zheng et al.   MEASUREMENT SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

Two-dimensional digital image correlation for in-plane displacement and strain measurement: a review

(2009) Bing Pan et al.   MEASUREMENT SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

Pectin May Hinder the Unfolding of Xyloglucan Chains during Cell Deformation: Implications of the Mechanical Performance of Arabidopsis Hypocotyls with Pectin Alterations

(2009) Willie Abasolo et al.   Molecular Plant

Plant Cell Wall Matrix Polysaccharide Biosynthesis

(2009) Ajay Pal S. Sandhu et al.   Molecular Plant

WallGen, Software to Construct Layered Cellulose-Hemicellulose Networks and Predict Their Small Deformation Mechanics

(2009) H. Kha et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Morphogenesis of complex plant cell shapes: the mechanical role of crystalline cellulose in growing pollen tubes

(2009) Leila Aouar et al.   SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION

AFM indentation study of breast cancer cells

(2008) Q.S. Li et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Disrupting Two Arabidopsis thaliana Xylosyltransferase Genes Results in Plants Deficient in Xyloglucan, a Major Primary Cell Wall Component

(2008) D. M. Cavalier et al.   PLANT CELL

Developmental Patterning by Mechanical Signals in Arabidopsis

(2008) O. Hamant et al.   SCIENCE

Microrheological studies offer insights into polysaccharide gels

(2007) M.A.K. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS