Microscopic studies show that the endosperm cell walls are fragmented and degraded by aleurone-secreted enzymes during malting. It is proposed, tentatively, that the degree of enzymic breakdown of the cell walls may be related, in part, to the distribution of plasmodesmata in the cell wall.
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