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Quantities of disencrusted sub-elementary cellulose fibrils from the cell wall of rose cells culturedin vitro were prepared. Following an X-ray and electron diffraction analysis, these fibrils gave a cellulose diffraction pattern which presented only two strong equatorial diffraction spacings at 0.409 and 0.572 nm indicating that the fibrils have a crystalline structure resembling that of cellulose IVI. This observation is best explained in terms of a lateral disorganization of the cellulose chains within the fibrils. This disorganization cannot be eliminated and is connected with the small width of the fibrils which contain from 12 to 25 cellulose chains only. In these fibrils, most of the cellulose chains are superficial and not locked with neighboring chains in a tight hydrogen bond system as in thicker cellulose microfibrils.
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Chanzy, H., Imada, K., Mollard, A. et al. Crystallographic aspects of sub-elementary cellulose fibrils occurring in the wall of rose cells culturedin vitro . Protoplasma 100, 303–316 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01279318
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