Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a cellulose material produced by microbial fermentation with a unique porous network structure. Functionalized BC has application prospects in many fields, such as chemical sensing, biological ...
Biochemistry
Jan 30, 2019
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In plants, the cell wall acts like a skeleton, providing support and stability, and also like muscle, passing water from the ground all the way to the highest leaves and branches. The structure responsible for water transport ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2018
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A Manchester and Dundee collaboration has found out more about one of the most abundant biological substances on the planet.
Biotechnology
Jul 12, 2016
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In the search for low emission plant-based fuels, new research may help avoid having to choose between growing crops for food or fuel.
Materials Science
Jun 9, 2016
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Scientists from he Universities of Melbourne and Queensland and IBM Research have moved a step closer to identifying the nanostructure of cellulose – the basic structural component of plant cell walls that provide fibre ...
Biotechnology
May 21, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Researchers from North Carolina State University believe they have solved a puzzle that has vexed science since plants first appeared on Earth.
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2013
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Plants have neither supportive bone tissue nor muscles, and yet they can form rigid structures like stalks and even tree trunks. This is due to the fact that plant cells are enveloped by a stable cell wall. The main component ...
Biotechnology
Jul 14, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid to boost ...
Biotechnology
Nov 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Grains, vegetables and fruit taste delicious and are important sources of energy. However, humans cannot digest the main component of plants - the cellulose in the cell wall. Even in ruminants, animals that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2010
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Cellulose is a fibrous molecule that makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2009
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