The secret of how fibre shapes the structure of plant cell walls has been revealed, with potentially wide-ranging applications ranging from nutrition and health to agriculture. Researchers from The ...

“Cellulose works like rebar in a high rise, providing a broad base of strength. It’s reinforced by hemicellulose chains and sealed in by pectin,” said UCR botany professor and research team leader ...

The secret of how fiber shapes the structure of plant cell walls has been revealed, with potentially wide-ranging applications ranging from nutrition and health to agriculture. Researchers from The ...

Botanists from São Paulo, working together with colleagues from the United States, have confirmed that the cell walls of various species of ferns exhibit a different composition to the outer coating ...

“Do plant cell walls have a code?” That question, which is somewhat rhetorical, is the title of an article published in the November 1, 2015, issue of Plant Science by a pair of botanists at the ...

Scientists have discovered new filamentous structures within plant cell walls that influence cell growth and help build complex three-dimensional cell shapes. Scientists have discovered new ...

Scientists have discovered new filamentous structures within plant cell walls that influence cell growth and help build complex three-dimensional cell shapes. Combining two types of high-performance ...