A Recipe for Cellulose
- 30 January 1998
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 279 (5351) , 672-673
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.279.5351.672
Abstract
Cellulose, polymers of glucose organized into long fibrils, forms the bulk of the world9s biomass. But the identity of the enzyme that makes this critical substance has been uncertain. In this week9s issue, Arioli et al. report the first confirmation that the gene CelA is indeed a cellulose synthase, and Carpita and Vergara, in their research commentary, explain why this result has been so long in coming and what we now know about how cellulose is made.Keywords
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