Summary
Primary and secondary cell walls display a beautiful fibrillar texture under the electron microscope. Microfibres of cell walls from many plants and from cultures of cellulose-forming bacteria have a remarkably constant diameter of 250–300 Å.
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Frey-Wyssling, A., Mühlethaler, K. & Wyckoff, R.W.G. Mikrofibrillenbau der pflanzlichen Zellwände. Experientia 4, 475–476 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164504
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