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Nobles, D.R., Brown, R.M. (2007). Many Paths up the Mountain: Tracking the Evolution of Cellulose Biosynthesis. In: Brown, R.M., Saxena, I.M. (eds) Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5380-1_1

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