Annals of Botany 94/4, © Annals of Botany Company 2004; all rights reserved
The plant cell wall.
Rose JKC, ed 2003.
Oxford: CRC Press. £99.50 (hardback).
381 pp.
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Cell walls have long been recognized as important and unique features of plant cells, contributing not only to the architecture of plant organs but also to the control of growth, to the exclusion of pathogens and to the production and transmission of signalling molecules. Gross measurements of plant cell composition established long ago that the plant devotes a large