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Science 26 November 1976:
Vol. 194. no. 4268, pp. 949 - 951
DOI: 10.1126/science.194.4268.949
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Cellulosic Microfibrils: Nascent Stages of Synthesis in a Higher Plant Cell

SUSETTE C. MUELLER 1, R. MALCOLM BROWN JR. 1, and TOM K. SCOTT 1

1 Department of Botany, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514

Freeze-fracturing of untreated plasma membrane and inner wall surfaces of stelar tissue in corn roots demonstrated the association of globular complexes with the ends of nascent microfibrils. It is proposed that the granule complexes associated with the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane coordinate the assembly of the cellulosic microfibrils.

Submitted on July 26, 1976
Revised on September 8, 1976


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