Abstract:In searching for material built from cellulose which might, by the application of X-ray analytical methods, throw further light on the nature of the cellulose lattice and its orientation in biological structures, Sponsler (1930) examined the green alga,
Valonia ventricosa
, which grows in the form of a single-celled hollow sphere often as much as 2 cm. in diameter. From the X-ray Photographs which he obtained, he was able to show, not only that the cell-wall is composed of crystallites … Show more
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