Building a plant cell wall at a glance

Building a plant cell wall at a glance cell wall A thick layer of peptidoglycan and the lack of an outer membrane are the main characteristics of Gram-positive cell walls; instead of lipopolysaccharides, Gram- cellular respiration A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking is due the movement of its cellulose skeleton, according to new

cellular respiration The cell wall comprises most of the plant's dry weight and is composed primarily of three polymer components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and

cell wall Plant cell walls have both elastic — or reversible-stretching — and plastic — or irreversible-stretching — properties that allow the walls to be Eduard Strasburger, Heinrich Schenck, Ludwig Jost, George Karsten The cell walls wall formed in the higher plants during cell division consists almost wholly