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Towards the mechanism of cellulose synthesis.
Trends in plant science - 1 Oct 2002
Williamson Richard E, Burn Joanne E, Hocart Charles H
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Recent research has provided insights into how plants make cellulose - the major structural material of their cell walls and the basis of the cotton and wood fibre industries. Arabidopsis thaliana mutants impaired in cellulose production are defective in genes encoding membrane-bound glycosyltransferases, an endo-1,4-beta-glucanase and several enzymes involved in the N-glycosylation and quality-control pathways...
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