ABSTRACT
The biological pathway of cellulose synthesis has been difficult to elucidate especially in plants. Still today, many questions remain unanswered. Until the middle of the last century, cellulose was accepted as a gift from Nature, and research was devoted to its structure, properties and processing. Since then however, rapid progress in biochemistry and genetics has prompted a growing interest in cellulose biosynthesis. In the past two decades, major discoveries have been accomplished with respect to cellulose biochemical pathways and genes encoding the cellulose synthase enzymes and other related proteins.
