Crystalline forms and cross-sectional dimensions of cellulose microfibrils in the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta)
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Abstract
Solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) were used to characterise the cellulose in six species of Florideophycean algae. NMR identified cellulose Iβ as the dominant crystalline form in all species, and was used to estimate the widths of the sheets of cellulose chains. The mean value (±SD) was 3.9±0.4 nm. WAXS was used to estimate the thickness of microfibrils measured normal to the sheets of chains. The mean value (±SD) was 1.9±0.5 nm. Uniformity of these results across the six species supported a generalisation that Florideophycean algae biosynthesise cellulose chains in microfibrils that are narrower than those biosynthesised by Bangiophycean algae.
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- Author index
- Contents volume 47
- Taxonomical index
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- Acknowledgement
Articles in the same Issue
- Author index
- Contents volume 47
- Taxonomical index
- Subject index
- Macroalgal assemblage structure on a coral reef in Nanwan Bay in southern Taiwan
- The effect of thallus size, life stage, aggregation, wave exposure and substratum conditions on the forces required to break or dislodge the small kelp Ecklonia radiata
- Reproduction in the green macroalga Codium (Chlorophyta): characterization of gametes
- Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Sargassum orotavicum sp. nov. (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) from the Canary Islands (eastern Atlantic Ocean)
- Recognition of Spyridia griffithsiana comb. nov. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): a taxon previously misidentified as Spyridia filamentosa from Europe
- Crystalline forms and cross-sectional dimensions of cellulose microfibrils in the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta)
- Geographic and host distribution of lignicolous mangrove microfungi
- Spatial variation in littoral Codium assemblages on Jersey, Channel Islands (southern English Channel)
- Acknowledgement