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Cellulose nanostructure in the cell walls of food crops

Reference	BBS/B/09643
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Timothy Wess
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Cardiff University
Department	Optometry and Vision Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	107,555
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/09/2004
End date	31/08/2006
Duration	24 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 Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

Associated awards:

BBS/B/09767 Cellulose nanostructure in the cell walls of food crops

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