The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts—cells with their walls removed—of cabbage's cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose fibers ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is utilized to make a wide range of products like clothes and paper. Also, it helps ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

This new material is characterized by a nanometric crystalline structure found within any plant fiber. Nanocrystals, which are extracted from cellulose, the raw material in paper-making, can be ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to make biodegradable packaging stronger while using less energy in the process ...

So what other reinforcing fiber options are there? As it turns out, cellulose is one of these ... while also being made fully out of plant-based materials. Regardless of the chosen composite ...

to keep the plant upright and waterproof for years, whereas sugar beet is a tuber that grows extremely quickly in the soil and is harvested annually. "Sugar beet cellulose fibers are therefore ...

the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose fibers that gradually self-assemble into a complex network on the outer cell surface. “I was very surprised by the ...