Reply to: Critical comment on the assumptions leading to 24-chain microfibrils in wood

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¹ State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Vaccine Research, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China. hctai@xmu.edu.cn.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China.
³ Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China.

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Hwan-Ching Tai et al. Nat Plants. 2024 Jul.

. 2024 Jul;10(7):1067-1070.

doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01727-7. Epub 2024 Jun 7.

¹ State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Vaccine Research, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China. hctai@xmu.edu.cn.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China.
³ Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China.

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Wood cellulose microfibrils have a 24-chain core-shell nanostructure in seed plants.
Tai HC, Chang CH, Cai W, Lin JH, Huang SJ, Lin QY, Yuan EC, Li SL, Lin YJ, Chan JCC, Tsao CS. Tai HC, et al. Nat Plants. 2023 Jul;9(7):1154-1168. doi: 10.1038/s41477-023-01430-z. Epub 2023 Jun 22. Nat Plants. 2023. PMID: 37349550
Critical comment on the assumptions leading to 24-chain microfibrils in wood.
Penttilä PA, Paajanen A. Penttilä PA, et al. Nat Plants. 2024 Jul;10(7):1064-1066. doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01689-w. Epub 2024 May 20. Nat Plants. 2024. PMID: 38769445 No abstract available.

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