Sponsor Message So he got an idea: What if we could convert the cellulose in this plentiful biomass to edible starch, which makes up 50 to 60 percent of the human diet? Maybe a technology like ...

Well, that may soon be a reality, thanks to a newly-developed process that allows cellulose to be converted into starch. Cellulose is the most common carbohydrate on Earth, and is found in the ...

Our idea is to use an enzyme cascade to break up the bonds in cellulose, enabling their reconfiguration as starch." The new approach takes cellulose from non-food plant material, such as corn ...

A VALUABLE article on recent work on cellulose, starch and glycogen, by Prof. H. Staudinger, has appeared in a recent issue of Die Naturwissenschaften (25, 673 ; 1937). The fact that cellulose ...

This weird possibility is courtesy of some scientists at Virginia Tech, who have transformed cellulose, a mostly indigestible polymer, into helpful, indispensable starch. Plants produce cellulose ...

Photograph by Photograph by Joe Petersburger, Nat Geo Image Collection A colorized scanning electron micrograph of starch grains (green) within a plant's cellulose cell wall compartments.

Despite a record year, Tongaat Hulett’s starch and cellulose division was impacted by load-shedding during the year ended March 31, CEO Peter Staude said in a telephone interview on Monday. “The ...

Lignin and potato starch, the team claims, are also cheaper than the cellulose other straws are made of, meaning these straws could be less expensive than other plastic alternatives on the market.