Abstract
A general survey of cell-wall structure in the red algae has been carried out using the methods of X -ray diffraction analysis and electron microscopy. The fifteen species all show a similar wall structure consisting of numerous lamellae each of which is made up of random micro-fibrils embedded in an amorphous matrix. The X -ray diagrams obtained from several species are complicated by the existence of crystalline floridean starch, but nevertheless reveal the absence of cellulose I.
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