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Esterases in malting and brewing

ReferenceD06435
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Dr Dennis Briggs
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution University of Birmingham
DepartmentSch of Geography, Earth & Env Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 114,482
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/10/1996
End date 01/10/1999
Duration36 months

Abstract

The esterases of malting barley will be isolated and characterised and their abilities to deacetylate cell walls and pentosans will be determined. The ability of deacylation to facilitate other degradations of pentosans and cell walls by carbohydrases, and the importance in malting and brewing will be assessed. Relationships will be sought between the malting (endosperm modification) rates of barleys of different varieties, esterase levels and degrees of cell-wall acylation.

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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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