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Helen Gorges

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🧵 🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🧵 The influence of pectins and cellulose fibers in the mechanical and adhesive properties of seed mucilage - Gorges et al 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Mucilage spatial architecture before and after pectinase treatment. SEM images of critical point dried seeds. (A, B) Mucilage envelope of chia; arrows indicate cross-linking polysaccharides (CSPs) in between the cellulose fibers in (B) compared with the lack of CSPs in (C). (C) Mucilage of chia after pectinase treatment. Few or no CSPs are visible in between the cellulose fibers. (D, E) Mucilage of collomia; arrows indicate CSPs in (E) compared with the lack of CSPs in (F). (F) Mucilage of collomia after pectinase treatment. Few or no CSPs are visible in between the cellulose fibers. (G, H) Mucilage of flax. Net-like structures are visible on the seed surface (indicated with arrows in H). (I) Seed surface of flax with mucilage-secreting cells (MSCs) after pectinase treatment. No mucilage with the characteristic net-like structure is left to cover the seed surface. Abbreviations: fb, fiber bundle; me, mucilage envelope.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📢 NEW ISSUE 📢 🌸 Issue 8 of 2025 is out now 🌸 🔬 COVER: A cross section through a Collomia grandiflora seed with curled cellulose fiber bundles, imaged with a Scanning Electron Microscope (by Helen Gorges) 🔗 Read the full issue: academic.oup.com/jxb... 🧪 #PlantScience @sebiology.bsky.social

Front cover of Vol 76, Issue 8 of 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany. Cover image is a cross section through a critical point dried Collomia grandiflora seed after pectinase treatment with curled cellulose fiber bundles, imaged with a Scanning Electron Microscope (courtesy of Helen Gorges).

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MorphoNews @morphonews.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It is amazing to see so many #Morphologists attending #Morpho25 in Kiel. The renaissance of #Morphology is continuing

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MorphoNews @morphonews.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The #Morphology Meeting 2025 in Kiel is starting and the Zoological Museum ist filling for #Morpho25

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