But their strength is in their numbers. Plants make microfibril after microfibril to support their cells. When assembled, the resulting structure is very strong. You might think of it like how ...

Figure 1: Microfibril reorientations during different ... such as collagen-based tissues, where, like the plant cell wall, both mechanical and enzymatic factors modulate biomechanical properties.

Plant cells originate mainly in small pockets ... would not necessarily prevent protein diffusion along the surface of the microfibril; hence, expansin's action could be localized by its wall ...

Paavo Penttilä, a new Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, aims to produce new insights into the ...

that further assemble into a microfibril network, forming the main scaffold for the cell wall. In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell ...