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

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

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

The long, skinny strands of connected cellulose form what are called microfibrils. Within trees and other plants, the microfibrils are found in the plants’ cell walls. The cell walls are composed of ...

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 ...

"I have always been fascinated by plants and how they capture sunlight via leaves into reduced carbon forms like cellulose that form cell walls," said Chundawat, who plans to explore new ways to ...