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

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

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

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 ...