Scientists reveal new plant cell walls can have significantly different mechanical properties compared to surrounding parental cell walls, enabling cells to change their local shape and influence the growth of plant organs. This is the first time that scientists have related mechanics to cell wall "age" and was only made possible through a new method that follows the same cells over time and through successive rounds of division. The Cambridge researchers were able to see new walls forming and then measure their mechanical properties.

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