Stow the ax: Cellulose may save trees From: InTech | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Anonymous | Copyright Instrument Society of America Jan 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Austin, Texas-Cellulose in a special group of organisms could produce itself and eventually eliminate the need to harvest trees for wood or pulp, said researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

Blue-green algae are among the most ancient of today's living organisms and have been in existence for more than 2.8 billion years. Cellulose is a biopolymer that plants use as the primary building block for their cell walls. Cellulose is important economically because it is the major so...

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