Researchers at Empa’s Cellulose and Wood Materials laboratory have developed a breakthrough material that avoids this dilemma ...

Fungi are considered a promising source of biodegradable materials. Researchers have developed a new material based on a fungal mycelium and its own extracellular matrix. This gives the biomaterial ...

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Phenolic acid esters of cellulose show antioxidative and antimicrobial properties, which are very interesting for a variety of applications, ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria ... Glycosyrin's unique structure could inspire new pharmaceutical approaches.

Here's how scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick witnessed living plant cells building their own cell walls. A team of researchers have captured continuous photographs of cellulose synthesis ...

To make the cells fluorescent and detectable by the microscope, he and his team developed a probe derived from an engineered bacterial enzyme that binds specifically to cellulose. Lam, an expert on ...

However, these are not the only ways that bacteria can respond under stress. Bacteria can change the order of genes on their chromosome (the chromosome structure) and/or the three-dimensional ...

HGT has been reported to happen frequently -- on an evolutionary scale -- between bacteria and plants. This is most probably how 4mC reached Marchantia. HGT events from soil bacteria to plants ...

A new study maps how specific lactic acid bacteria can enhance both the flavour and nutritional quality of plant-based dairy alternatives. The findings may have wide-reaching perspectives for the ...