Abstract
Plant cells are found to have various shapes (spherical, cylindrical, globular, ellipsoidal and filamentous) and sizes (from <1 μm to several centimetres) and only a fraction of the many thousands of different types has ever been investigated. Moreover, the choice of organism has always been dictated by the requirements of the type of study which is to be undertaken, and has inevitably resulted in bias towards botany, chemistry, biochemistry, physics or cell biology. Though it may not be possible to discover a system which suits every type of investigation, it is perhaps unfortunate that more effort has not been made to correlate results by various types of investigations. Nevertheless, the results of these diverse investigations make it clear that plant cell walls are highly specialised organelles and no two types, even when taxonomically closely related, have been discovered to have exactly the same architectural construction.
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