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Editorial
. 2008 Jun;20(6):1421-2.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.061382.

Role of xyloglucan in primary cell walls

Nancy A Eckardt
Editorial

Role of xyloglucan in primary cell walls

Nancy A Eckardt. Plant Cell. 2008 Jun.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Root Hair Phenotype of the xxt1 xxt2 Double Mutant. Wild-type root hairs (left) compared with the xxt1 xxt2 double mutant (right). Bars = 200 μm in top panels, 50 μm in bottom left panels, and 25 μm in the bottom right.
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