Sentences with phrase «in plant cell walls»

Type I refers to starch that is physically inaccessible to digestive enzymes because it's trapped in plant cell walls.

The nutrients in plant cell walls simply pass through our digestive system.

Later, he found evidence that the Phasmatodea could break down pectin — another fibre found in plant cell walls — using genes stolen from bacteria early on in the insects» evolutionary history.

Engineering bioenergy crops to increase sugar - containing polymers and decrease lignin in plant cell walls

Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia, Arun, has the potential to yield over 10,000 litres of bioethanol per hectare per year.

When Hubbes exposed vaccinated trees to the virulent strain of the fungus, he found that the trees were ready to mount a defence, trapping the fungus in infected cells by hardening the walls of these cells with lignin — an organic polymer in plant cell walls that imparts rigidity.

Conventional wisdom holds that herbivores, such as cows, need gut microbes to break down the fibres in plant cell walls.

The reason is lignin — a hard - to - digest substance in the plant cell wall.

In plant cell walls individual cellulose molecules bind together to produce fibres around 20 nanometres in diameter, 5000 times thinner than a human hair.

Lignin, which forms in the plant cell wall, is an essential component for tree growth that imparts strength and density to timber.

It turned out that the component responsible for the temperature sensitivity was pectin, a long - chain molecule present in plant cell walls.

But other researchers have previously shown that it's possible to engineer plants so that lignin remains high in the vessels but is reduced in plant cell walls, allowing these plants to grow just as tall as their unaltered cousins.

According to Elizabeth Arndt, ConAgra's manager of research and development, the consensus in the industry is that whole grain flour's flavor is a necessary evil: the health benefits of wheat are contained in the high - fiber bran, which is also loaded with a bitter - tasting phenol called ferulic acid, which acts as a crosslink in plant cell walls.

Stick your nose deep into an old book and inhale deeply... As it turns out, dozens of different chemicals that are emitted by paper, binding, ink, and glue... break down over time... One prominent compound results from the breakdown of lignin, a polymer found in plant cell walls, as well as paper.

«The lignin in the plant cell walls can be burned,» Vogel says.

The scientists, from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls and University of Rhode Island, in the US, say the polysaccharide looks a bit like the gut - friendly, health - promoting beta glucan found in oats and other cereals.

The lignin in plant cell walls that helps protect energy - storing sugars must be degraded for cost - effective production of advanced biofuels.

Galactaric acid is derived from pectin - a carbohydrate found in some plant cell walls.

Hemicelluloses are a group of polysaccharides found in plant cell walls that surround cellulose.