A team of researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as ...

FROM the purely chemical properties of cellulose, recent experiments have enabled us to gain further information as to the nature and length of the cellulose chain. It will be remembered that earlier ...

For Percival Zhang, growing up in China meant learning to appreciate just how critical a stable food supply is to avoiding social unrest and disasters like famine. When he became an associate ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants ...