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

Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer – large molecules naturally produced by living organisms – on Earth. A carbohydrate that is the primary structural component of plant cell walls, cellulose is ...

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 ...

The team also successfully created a carbohydrate-based compatibilizer ... and presenting an opportunity to make Tajima’s work with cellulose more eco-friendly. Bacterial building blocks ...

Rutgers’ biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists capture first live images of cellulose construction leading to ...

Polysaccharides are carbohydrate polymers in which monosaccharide ... as a structural component of bacterial cell walls, as in cellulose (linear polysaccharide of glucose).