The DOI matches its Crossref record; 18 of the 18 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Leaf cuticular waxes are arranged in chemically and mechanically distinct layers: evidence from Prunus laurocerasus L.
Open accessAbstract
The composition and spatial arrangement of cuticular waxes on the leaves of Prunus laurocerasus were investigated. In the wax mixture, the triterpenoids ursolic acid and oleanolic acid as well as alkanes, fatty acids, aldehydes, primary alcohols and alcohol acetates were identified. The surface extraction of upper and lower leaf surfaces yielded 280 mg m−2 and 830 mg m−2, respectively. Protocols for the mechanical removal of waxes from the outermost layers of the cuticle were devised and evaluated. With the most selective of these methods, 130 mg m−2 of cuticular waxes could be removed from the adaxial surface before a sharp, physically resistant boundary was reached. Compounds thus obtained are interpreted as ‘epicuticular waxes’ with respect to their localization in a distinct layer on the surface of the cutin matrix. The epicuticular wax film can be transferred onto glass and visualized by scanning electron microscopy. Prunus laurocerasus epicuticular waxes consisted entirely of aliphatic compounds, whereas the remaining intracuticular waxes comprised 63% of triterpenoids. The ecological relevance of this layered structure for recognition by phytotrophic fungi and herbivorous insects that probe the surface composition for sign stimuli is discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Classification and terminology of plant epicuticular waxes
Barthlott, W., Neinhuis, C., CUTLER, D., Ditsch, F., Meusel, I., Theisen, I., & WILHELMI, H. (1998) · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1006/bojl.1997.0137 · Cited by 961
Chemistry and morphology of plant epicuticular waxes
Baker, E. A. (1982) · Cited by 480
(1990) · Methods in Plant Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-461012-5.50001-x · Cited by 423
Sch�nherr, J. (1976) · Planta · doi:10.1007/bf00389989 · Cited by 298
Surface signaling in pathogenesis.
Kolattukudy, P. E., Rogers, L. M., Li, D., Hwang, C. S., & Flaishman, M. A. (1995) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.92.10.4080 · Cited by 275
Podila, G. K., Rogers, L. M., & Kolattukudy, P. E. (1993) · Plant Physiology · doi:10.1104/pp.103.1.267 · Cited by 245
Lateral chain packing in lipids and membranes
Small, D. M. (1984) · Journal of Lipid Research · doi:10.1016/s0022-2275(20)34422-9 · Cited by 239
Schreiber, L., & Riederer, M. (1996) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/bf00333931 · Cited by 224
Self-citationJEFFREE, C. E. (1986) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 188
Merk, S., Blume, A., & Riederer, M. (1997) · Planta · doi:10.1007/s004250050228 · Cited by 160
Self-citation
Cited by
Diefendorf, A. F., & Freimuth, E. J. (2017) · Organic Geochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.10.016 · Cited by 409
Vogg, G., Fischer, S., Leide, J., Emmanuel, E., Jetter, R., Levy, A. A., & Riederer, M. (2004) · Journal of Experimental Botany · doi:10.1093/jxb/erh149 · Cited by 348
Self-citationProduction of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past
Diefendorf, A. F., Freeman, K. H., Wing, S. L., & Graham, H. V. (2011) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.09.028 · Cited by 340
Jetter, R., & Schäffer, S. (2001) · Plant Physiology · doi:10.1104/pp.126.4.1725 · Cited by 313
Self-citationJetter, R., & Riederer, M. (2016) · Plant Physiology · doi:10.1104/pp.15.01699 · Cited by 206
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Jetter, R., Schäffer, S., & Riederer, M.
- Venue
- Plant, Cell & Environment
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 619-628
- ISSN
- 0140-7791 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-3040
- OpenAlex
- W1984105030
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 7.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Leaf cuticular waxes are arranged in chemically and mechanically distinct layers: evidence from Prunus laurocerasus L. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1046/j.1365-3040.2000.00581.x
- The paper
- Jetter, R., Schäffer, S., & Riederer, M. (2000). Leaf cuticular waxes are arranged in chemically and mechanically distinct layers: evidence from Prunus laurocerasus L. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3040.2000.00581.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
