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The Walls of Growing Plant Cells

They consist of cellulose fibers bound together by molecules made of many sugar units. The structure of those molecules is now known well enough to account for some of the properties of the cell wall

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 232 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Walls of Growing Plant Cells” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 232 No. 4 (), p. 80
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0475-80