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The plant cell deposits its wall as a series of layers. The earliest layers are deposited at cell division, and the cell then lays down further material between the plasma membrane and the earlier layers. Thus the first-formed material is found at the point where the cell wall adjoins the cell wall of the neighbouring cell, and the latest-formed layers are closest to the plasma membrane (Section 3.1).
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Brett, C., Waldron, K. (1990). Cell wall structure and the skeletal functions of the wall. In: Physiology and Biochemistry of Plant Cell Walls. Topics in Plant Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9641-6_2
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