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6 Plant cell walls are typically considered as complex structural
7 matrices that surround all plant cells. They consist mostly of
8 polysaccharides, but also contain components such as lignin,
9 structural lipids and proteins in specialized cell types.
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13 <img src="/img/secretom/cell_wall_diagram_400.png" />
14 <p>Plant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_wall">cell wall</a> model</p>
18 However, the term "plant cell wall" is also used more broadly to refer
19 to the entire compartment outside the plasma membrane that forms a
20 continuum throughout the plant, also termed the "apoplast", or
21 apoplastic compartment.
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29 Green fluorescent protein that has diffused throughout the cell
30 wall and apoplastic compartment surrounding an onion epidermal
31 cell. Scale bar represents 50 micrometers.