Physiological Effects of Surface Waxes

The effects of stress on plant cuticular waxes.

Plants are subject to a wide range of abiotic stresses, and their cuticular wax layer provides a protective barrier, which consists predominantly of long-chain hydrocarbon compounds, including alkanes, primary alcohols, aldehydes, secondary alcohols, ketones, esters and other derived compounds. This article discusses current knowledge relating to the effects of stress on cuticular waxes and the...

Thermogravimetric analysis of waxes.

Differential thermal analysis and calorimetric analysis of commercial and dental waxes have been reported in the dental literature."2 Thermogravimetric analysis is described in most textbooks on thermal analysis3-5 and is essentially a method of measuring the weight of a sample as a function of temperature or as a function of time at a fixed temperature. The purpose of this study was to examine...

Solidification Properties of Certain Waxes

Gao and Sonin (1994) have proposed a method for rapid prototyping and microfabrication by precise deposition and solidification of molten microdrops. Objects can be fabricated by a drop-on-demand, computer-controlled droplet generator. To understand the fundamentals of droplet deposition and solidification, experiments have been conducted using microcrystalline wax droplets (Schiaffino and Soni...

Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Plant and Insect Surface Compounds: Cuticular Waxes and Terpenoids

What do microbes encounter at the plant surface? Chemical composition of pea leaf cuticular waxes.

In the cuticular wax mixtures from leaves of pea (Pisum sativum) cv Avanta, cv Lincoln, and cv Maiperle, more than 70 individual compounds were identified. The adaxial wax was characterized by very high amounts of primary alcohols (71%), while the abaxial wax consisted mainly of alkanes (73%). An aqueous adhesive of gum arabic was employed to selectively sample the epicuticular wax layer on pea...