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Youngs, H.L., Hamann, T., Osborne, E., Somerville, C. (2007). The Cellulose Synthase Superfamily. In: Brown, R.M., Saxena, I.M. (eds) Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5380-1_3
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