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Cellulose Synthesis in the Arabidopsis Secondary Cell Wall

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Taylor, N.G., Turner, S.R. (2007). Cellulose Synthesis in the Arabidopsis Secondary Cell Wall. In: Brown, R.M., Saxena, I.M. (eds) Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5380-1_4

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