The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated - Science Scene - Brief Article

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), June, 2003

The need to harvest trees for wood or pulp could be eliminated, claim researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. They maintain that the discovery of cellulose biosynthesis in nine species of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, may be the source of the genetic material also used for that process in present-day plants such as trees and cotton.

According to researcher R. Malcolm Brown Jr., "If industrial production from this source were to be achieved, we might never need to harvest trees again for wood or pulp. In the future, we could possibly use cyanobacterial cellulose."