Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | BBS/E/F/00042606 | |
| Title | BBSRC Studentship: The role of cell wall structure in determining sustainable bioalcohol production from lignocellulose | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Renewable Energy Sources(Bio-Energy, Production of other biomass-derived fuels (incl. Production from wastes)) 50%; Renewable Energy Sources(Bio-Energy, Production of transport biofuels (incl. Production from wastes)) 50%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Biological Sciences) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor KW Waldron No email address given SFC Exploitation Platform Institute of Food Research |
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| Award Type | Institute Project | |
| Funding Source | BBSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 October 2010 | |
| End Date | 30 September 2014 | |
| Duration | 48 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £4,084 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Transport Systems and Vehicles | |
| Region | East of England | |
| Programme | ||
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor KW Waldron , SFC Exploitation Platform, Institute of Food Research (100.000%) |
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| Objectives | Objectives not supplied | |
| Abstract | Commercial exploitation of straw co-products for bio-alcohol production requires improvement in the levels and ease of enzymatic digestibility of plant cell wall carbohydrates. The morphological characteristics and chemical composition of wheat and oilseed rape stems vary between varieties and are being studied across ~48 lines of each crop species in the BBSRC Integrated Biorefinery Technologies Initiative (IBTI) Club project “Optimization of wheat and oilseed rape straw co-products for bio-alcohol productionâ€Â. The plant cell wall is the common structural entity here since it is the range of material properties of the wall that determines stem strength and fracture properties, and it is the polysaccharide component of the cell wall which provides the source of sugars for fermentation. There is a paucity of information how the cell wall archestructure, and interpolymeric cross-linking affect such digestibility. This project will focus on elucidating the underlying role(s) of plant structure (macro- through to polymer) in manifesting the genetically-determined differences in phenotype, harvesting and ease of enzymatic digestion for bioalcohol production. |
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| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 17/03/14 | |
