Infrared and Raman Spectroscopic Features of Plant Cuticles: a Review

Overview

Journal Front Plant Sci

Date 2014 Jul 11

PMID 25009549

Citations 98

Authors

Jose A Heredia-Guerrero

Jose J Benitez

Eva Dominguez

Ilker S Bayer

Roberto Cingolani

Athanassia Athanassiou

Antonio Heredia

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Abstract

The cuticle is one of the most important plant barriers. It is an external and continuous lipid membrane that covers the surface of epidermal cells and whose main function is to prevent the massive loss of water. The spectroscopic characterization of the plant cuticle and its components (cutin, cutan, waxes, polysaccharides and phenolics) by infrared and Raman spectroscopies has provided significant advances in the knowledge of the functional groups present in the cuticular matrix and on their structural role, interaction and macromolecular arrangement. Additionally, these spectroscopies have been used in the study of cuticle interaction with exogenous molecules, degradation, distribution of components within the cuticle matrix, changes during growth and development and characterization of fossil plants.

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