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A kinesin-like protein is essential for oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils and cell wall strength.
The Plant cell - 1 Dec 2002
Zhong Ruiqin, Burk David H, Morrison W Herbert, Ye Zheng-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Cortical microtubules have long been hypothesized to regulate the oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils. However, the molecular mechanisms of how microtubules direct the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition are not known. We have used fibers in the inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis to study secondary wall deposition and cell wall strength and found a fragile fiber (fra1) mutant with a dramatic...
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