Charles Anderson

Thematic Area Lead, Climate and Natural Systems
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Biology

Research Summary

Our lab studies plant cell wall dynamics, with the goal of informing efforts to produce sustainable food, materials, and bioenergy from plants. We use in vivo imaging and cell biological, molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches in the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrella patens to investigate three biological processes: de novo cell wall formation, cell wall modification, and cell wall degradation.

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Recent Publications

A core of cell wall proteins functions in wall integrity responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ajayi, O., Zelinsky, E. & Anderson, C. T., Apr 2024, In: Plant Direct. 8, 4, e579.

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Lignin impairs Cel7A degradation of in vitro lignified cellulose by impeding enzyme movement and not by acting as a sink

Haviland, Z. K., Nong, D., Zexer, N., Tien, M., Anderson, C. T. & Hancock, W. O., Dec 2024, In: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 17, 1, 7.

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Young guard cells function dynamically despite low mechanical anisotropy but gain efficiency during stomatal maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Jaafar, L., Chen, Y., Keynia, S., Turner, J. A. & Anderson, C. T., Jun 2024, In: Plant Journal. 118, 6, p. 1719-1731 13 p.

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Preparation and Compositional Analysis of Lignocellulosic Plant Biomass as a Precursor for Food Production During Food Crises

Mather, T. N., Siva, N., Jauregui, M., Klatte, H., Lambert, J. D. & Anderson, C. T., Jun 2024, In: Current Protocols. 4, 6, e1090.

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Single-molecule tracking reveals dual front door/back door inhibition of Cel7A cellulase by its product cellobiose

Nong, D., Haviland, Z. K., Zexer, N., Pfaff, S. A., Cosgrove, D. J., Tien, M., Anderson, C. T. & Hancock, W. O., Apr 30 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 18, e2322567121.

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Matrix polysaccharides affect preferred orientation of cellulose crystals in primary cell walls

Rongpipi, S., Barnes, W. J., Siemianowski, O., Ye, D., Del Mundo, J. T., Duncombe, S., Xin, X., Zhu, C., Toney, M. F., Gu, Y., Anderson, C. T., Gomez, E. D. & Gomez, E. W., Feb 2024, In: Cellulose. 31, 3, p. 1397-1415 19 p.

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Flexible Pectin Nanopatterning Drives Cell Wall Organization in Plants

Siemianowski, O., Rongpipi, S., Del Mundo, J. T., Freychet, G., Zhernenkov, M., Gomez, E. D., Gomez, E. W. & Anderson, C. T., Jan 22 2024, In: JACS Au. 4, 1, p. 177-188 12 p.

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Altering the substitution and cross-linking of glucuronoarabinoxylans affects cell wall architecture in Brachypodium distachyon

Tryfona, T., Pankratova, Y., Petrik, D., Rebaque Moran, D., Wightman, R., Yu, X., Echevarría-Poza, A., Deralia, P. K., Vilaplana, F., Anderson, C. T., Hong, M. & Dupree, P., Apr 2024, In: New Phytologist. 242, 2, p. 524-543 20 p.

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Xylan inhibition of cellulase binding and processivity observed at single-molecule resolution

Zexer, N., Paradiso, A., Nong, D., Haviland, Z. K., Hancock, W. O. & Anderson, C. T., Mar 5 2024, In: RSC Sustainability. 2, 4, p. 1118-1127 10 p.

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Stomatal opening efficiency is controlled by cell wall organization in Arabidopsis thaliana

Keynia, S., Jaafar, L., Zhou, Y., Anderson, C. T. & Turner, J. A., Sep 1 2023, In: PNAS Nexus. 2, 9, pgad294.

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Measuring calcium content in plants using NEXAFS spectroscopy

Rongpipi, S., Barnes, W. J., Siemianowski, O., Del Mundo, J. T., Wang, C., Freychet, G., Zhernenkov, M., Anderson, C. T., Gomez, E. W. & Gomez, E. D., 2023, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 14, 1212126.

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Assessing lignocellulosic biomass as a source of emergency foods

Siva, N. & Anderson, C. T., Jan 2023, In: Current Research in Food Science. 7, 100586.

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Galactosylation of xyloglucan is essential for the stabilization of the actin cytoskeleton and endomembrane system through the proper assembly of cell walls

Xiang, M., Yuan, S., Zhang, Q., Liu, X., Li, Q., Leng, Z., Sha, J., Anderson, C. T. & Xiao, C., Sep 13 2023, In: Journal of experimental botany. 74, 17, p. 5104-5123 20 p.

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Bottom-up multiscale modelling of guard cell walls reveals molecular mechanisms of stomatal biomechanics

Yi, H. & Anderson, C. T., 2023, In: In Silico Plants. 5, 2, diad017.

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Polygalacturonase activity promotes aberrant cell separation in the quasimodo2 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana

Barnes, W. J., Zelinsky, E. & Anderson, C. T., Dec 2022, In: Cell Surface. 8, 100069.

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