The 70 percent of the cellulose that doesn’t get converted into starch is instead hydrolyzed to glucose, which could subsequently be used in ethanol production.

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?

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 ...

Cellulose forms the cell walls of most plants, algae and even some bacteria, and we use it for anything from clothing (cotton is almost all cellulose) to paper to ethanol. Starch is a plant’s ...

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 ...

Resistant starch offers an added perk for people who are struggling to control their weight. Because resistant starches contain fewer calories (2.5 per gram) than regular starches (4 per gram) do ...

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.