The cellulose synthase complex of the Arabidopsis primary cell wall

多糖纤维素是澳大利亚木材和棉纤维工业的基础，在过去的十年里，我们对合成机理的大部分研究都得到了这些行业的支持。目前的项目重点是制造纤维素的蛋白质，以及它们如何组织成能够制造纤维素的功能复合体。它提供的知识，连同其他项目提供的知识，将把我们推向这样一种情况：我们可以操纵纤维素的生产速度，并改变其详细性质。这为工业生产具有更理想性能的纤维和为特定应用量身定做的新型纤维素基材料开辟了道路。

The polysaccharide cellulose is the basis for the wood and cotton fibre industries of Australia and much of our research on the mechanism of synthesis has been supported by those industries over the past decade. The present project focuses on the proteins making cellulose and how they organised into functional complexes that are able to make cellulose. The knowledge it provides, together with that from other projects, will move us towards the situation where we can manipulate the rate at which cellulose is produced and change its detailed properties. This opens the way to industry producing fibres with more desirable properties and producing novel cellulose-based materials tailored to specific applications.