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We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built

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74% Informative

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall.

It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin .

We have known what plant cells look like without their walls, but we've never seen the wall-building process in action.

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