Cellulose in the cell wall of the siphon
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Masaakira Maeda; Yukiko Fukushi-Fujikura; Osamu Otsuru
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Article
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1990
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The cell wall microfibrils of Bryopsis maxima, a member of the order Siphonales which have been referred to as "noncellulosic plants", contain c 10% of n-glucan and ~90% of ( 1-3)~/I-D-xylan. A combination of enzymic analysis and 'H-n.m.r. spectroscopy confirmed that the D-ghCan was cellulose and th