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Cellulose nanostructure in the cell walls of food crops

ReferenceBBS/B/09643
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Timothy Wess
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution Cardiff University
DepartmentOptometry and Vision Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 107,555
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/09/2004
End date 31/08/2006
Duration24 months

Abstract

This is a joint proposal from the Universities of Glasgow and Cardiff. The supramolecular structures formed by cellulose in the primary cell-walls of food crops are central to the cell-walls structure and its role in textural and processing quality. We propose to examine features of chain packing within cellulose crystallites and crystallite packing within microfibrils, using a combination of small and wide-angle X-ray scattering neutron scattering, NMR and FTIR spectroscopy. The principal experimental system will be cellulose from celery collechyma, which is structurally typical of primary-wall cellulose but is orientated with extreme uniformity, allowing modern fibre scattering and FTIR methods to yield nanostructural information that until now has been inaccessible. (Joint with BBS/B/09467).

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Committee Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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