Sentences with phrase «in plant cellulose»

The best food for your cat is one that is high in meat based protein and low in plant cellulose.

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Cellulose is a naturally occurring plant fiber and one of the most common ingredients in nature.

The cellulose that makes up the cell walls in plants is a polymer.

Trouble is, those parts of plants are high in cellulose, a sturdy structural compound that is hard to break down.

The compound, called gavinone in honor of its codiscoverer, is produced when cellulose, the sugar that makes up the cell walls of all plants, burns.

For example, Keasling and his team cloned genes from Clostridium stercorarium and Bacteroides ovatus — bacteria that thrive in soil and the guts of plant - eating animals, respectively — which produce enzymes that break down cellulose.

Cellulose fibers produced by the model organism Komagataeibacter (Gluconacetobacter) xylinus are very similar to those found in plants (1) and are increasingly used in biotechnology and nanotechnology (2, 3).

The trouble is, those parts of plants are high in cellulose, a sturdy structural compound that is hard to break down.

David Hibbett of Clark University, another of the study's senior authors, compared the work to a previous collaboration with the DOE JGI detailed in Science to trace the evolution of white rot fungi, which are capable of breaking down cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plants.

To make the new battery, the researchers dissolved cellulose, a plant material used to make paper, in a liquid salt solution.

That meant Ballantyne could isolate cellulose, a structural molecule that keeps a record of temperatures in the plant's lifetime.

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

Whether waste paper or raked leaves, the plant remnants still contain cellulose, a sugar in greenery that bonds with the chemical compound lignin to furnish a plant's structure.

A new view of microbes» cellulose shows how it's different from the kind found in plants.

«Cellulose nanofibres are the main reinforcement in all plant structures and are characterised by nanoscale dimensions, high strength and toughness,» Berglund told New Scientist.

«This is a major step forward in our understanding of how plants synthesize their walls, specifically cellulose,» says Mansfield.

An image of artificially - produced cellulose in cells on the surface of a modified Arabidopsis thaliana plant.

«The bulk of the world's cellulose is produced within the thickened secondary cell walls of tissues hidden inside the plant body,» says University of British Columbia Botany PhD candidate Yoichiro Watanabe, lead author of the paper published this week in Science.

The researchers don't know what these proteins do, but they found them in a variety of microbes, including plant and human pathogens, as well as in cellulose - degrading and bioremediation organisms.

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

The basic steps of biofuel production start with deconstructing, or taking apart, the cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin that are bound together in the complex plant structure.

Plants are made up of as much as 30 percent lignin, is the second-most abundant renewable carbon source on the planet after cellulose, according to the International Lignin Institute in Switzerland.

Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.

One strategy, which has already been successfully tested by Dominique Loque's research team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, could be to rewire plants to get rid of lignin in places where it is not as necessary, while also increasing the amount of cellulose, said Bartley.

Of the three cell wall components, lignin is the most troublesome for the biofuel industry because it limits the extraction of cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the study.

Engineers must first remove the lignin to get to the sugar - rich cellulose in plants, which they ferment into alcohol - based fuel.

Looking for weedy candidates The research represents just one of several ways scientists are altering plants to maximize their ability to produce cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuels, said Laura Bartley, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology at the University of Oklahoma.

«Longer term, our goal is to make [the plastic] from plant waste,» such as the lignin or cellulose in the sugarcane's leaves and stems.

Fungal activity releases the nutrients locked inside material rich in lignin and cellulose, from leaves and twigs to mighty trunks, so that further generations of plants can grow.

Cellulose is the primary component of plant cell walls and accounts for the fiber in fruits and vegetables.

Now, Brazil hopes to tap into a new biofuel source: second - generation ethanol, produced from the tough cellulose in plant stalks.

They found that the enzymes easily broke down the cellulose in plant biomass into glucose at temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius.

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

Eugene Mamontov's background in both basic and applied science has made him a valued partner for scientists who come to the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in search of a better understanding of the water dynamics in their research — projects as diverse as studying plant cellulose or analyzing nanostructured membranes for desalination.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Glucose, in plant starch and cellulose, is nature's most abundant sugar.

HMF is a key intermediate in biomass conversion that can be derived from cellulose — a type of cheap and abundant plant matter.

Cows have the ability to digest cellulose — the carbohydrate that strengthens the cell walls of plants — because of «fibrolytic ruminal bacteria,» which represent just a few of the hundreds of species of microbes in the digestive systems of ruminants.

Microbiologist Mark Morrison, an associate professor at Ohio State's Department of Animal Sciences who is the consortium's coordinator, says its main goals are to pinpoint those parts of the bacterial genomes that play a role in degrading cellulose and other plant polysaccharides, and also to identify other genetic traits that are critical to the bacteria's colonization and persistence in the digestive systems of the host animals.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

There are clear differences in the digestion of ruminants from other mammals, since they not only digest the plant matter but also the bacteria that live in the gut and digest the cellulose.

In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants such as switch grass into biofuels.

Complexes with Mixed Primary and Secondary Cellulose Synthases are Functional in Arabidopsis thaliana Plants, Andrew Carroll, Nasim Mansoori, Shundai Li, Lei Lei, Samantha Vernhettes, Richard Visser, Chris Somerville, Yong Gu, Luisa Trindade, Plant Physiology, 160, 726 - 737, http://dx.

Make it delicious: «If you rub kale together for a few minutes, that breaks down the cellulose in the plant,» Zuckerbrot says.

While all unprocessed plant sources are rich in prebiotics, leeks are rich in fructan and cellulose fibres (types of prebiotics) are long enough to survive all the way down the GI tract.

Plant foods are naturally high in «anti-nutrients», like cellulose, phytates and tannins that interfere with the absorption of minerals (see: vegetables).

For vegetarians and vegans we also offer certain products in vegetable capsules, which are derived from either plant cellulose (specifically hydroxypropyl methylcellulose from pine trees) or vegetable polysaccharides from tapioca.

Storage polysaccharides are a storage form of energy, for example cellulose in plants and glycogen in animals and humans.

I can think of a number of reasons why that might be (lots of cellulose, more water in stools, etc.) Hard to imagine that a diet rich in plant fibers would be digested in the same manner as a diet rich in animal fibers.

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.