Structural colour from a helicoidal cellulose architecture in the secondary cell wall: Optical properties, cell wall composition, structure and morphology of components, and their assembly and interactions.
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Structural colours are produced by constructive interference of light scattered from periodically arranged interfaces within nanostructured materials. A common strategy of plants to achieve structural coloration consists of assembling cellulose microfibrils into helicoidal structures. Examples of these architectures can be found in phylogenetically distant species and in different tissues of plants, such as in the endocarp of the fruit of
In this thesis, I studied the optical response and anatomical features of the adaxial and abaxial epidermal layers of cells of
For the endocarp of the fruit of