Most of the carbon fixed by plants through photosynthesis is ultimately stored in the cell wall, primarily in the form of polysaccharides such as cellulose, xylan, and glucomannan. Yet how plants ...

Professor Iwata Tadahisa et al. of the University of Tokyo have developed an innovative high performance bioplastics from various polysaccharides obtained from natural biomass or by enzymatic ...

Marine microbial communities are responsible for processing an estimated half of the organic carbon annually produced in the ocean (Azam and Malfatti, 2007). It is generally assumed that the ...