Figure 12

Structure of the plant cell wall. (a) Cross section of the bagasse cell wall, showing the involucre of the lumens; (b) schematic representation of the spatial distribution of the cell wall components and of the internal structure of the region amplified from the wall in (a); (c) scheme of the transversal section of a cellulose microfibril; (d) cellulose fibrils are formed by cellulose polymeric chains.