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Cellulose metabolism in plants.
International review of cytology - 1 Jan 2005
Hayashi Takahisa, Yoshida Kouki, Park Yong Woo, Konishi Teruko, Baba Kei'ichi
Abstract excerpt
Many bacterial genomes contain a cellulose synthase operon together with a cellulase gene, indicating that cellulase is required for cellulose biosynthesis. In higher plants, there is evidence that cell growth is enhanced by the overexpression of cellulase and prevented by its suppression. Cellulase overexpression could modify cell walls not only by trimming off the paracrystalline sites of cellulose...
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