Plants control the properties and actuation of their organs through the orientation of cellulose fibrils in their cell walls

Xyloglucan: The Molecular Muscle of Trees

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The parallel lives of microtubules and cellulose microfibrils

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Cellulose fibrils direct plant organ movements

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Cellulose microfibril deposition: coordinated activity at the plant plasma membrane

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Structures in the cell wall that enable hygroscopic movement of wheat awns

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Modelling polymer interactions of the ‘molecular Velcro’ type in wood under mechanical stress

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Gene expression inEucalyptusbranch wood with marked variation in cellulose microfibril orientation and lacking G-layers

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Stress generation in the tension wood of poplar is based on the lateral swelling power of the G-layer

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Stiffness gradients in vascular bundles of the palm Washingtonia robusta

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