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

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

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

Plant cell walls are primarily made of cellulose, which is the most abundant macromolecule on Earth. Cellulose fibers are long, linear polymers of hundreds of glucose molecules. These fibers ...

But plant-based ‘bioplastics’ are not new. The first man-made plastic was made in 1862 using cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, pre-dating the petroleum-based plastics that ...

Experts said the continuing rise in the price of the renewable material is a result of fewer cellulose plants, operational problems, and increased demand from Asia and Europe. Environmental issues ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the ...