Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Roberts recently published "An alternate route for cellulose microfibril biosynthesis in plants" in Science Advances. As the ...

Caption (A) SAXS analysis of fiber cell materials to determine the diameter of each bundle in a different microfibril. (B) Polydispersity analysis of the five samples. Peak positions corresponding ...

This could be the largest survey, using a cryo-electron microscope, of woody plants ever done,” Raymond ... containing SCWs also have different microfibril size in Liriodendron, we decided ...