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Editorial
. 2019 May;31(5):936.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00278. Epub 2019 Apr 17.

Cell Wall Polymers: The Importance of Deacetylation

Nancy R Hofmann
Editorial

Cell Wall Polymers: The Importance of Deacetylation

Nancy R Hofmann. Plant Cell. 2019 May.
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The excess arabinoxylan acetylation in the darx1 mutant leads to alterations in the cell wall. Scanning electron micrographs show wild-type (left) and darx1 mutant (right) sclerenchyma cells. Bar = 2 μm. (Adapted from Zhang et al., 2019, Figure 6).
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