Background The crystallinity of cellulose is a principal factor limiting the efficient hydrolysis of biomass to fermentable sugars or direct catalytic conversion to biofuel components. We evaluated the impact of TFA-induced gelatinization of crystalline cellulose on enhancement of enzymatic digestion and catalytic conversion to biofuel substrates. Results Low-temperature swelling of cotton li...

in this work, the effects of acetic and lactic acids addition to rice during cooking, on the texture and morphological properties, and too, the gelatinization temperature (gt) of the cooked domsiyah rice was investigated. all experiments were carried out in triplicate and data analyzed in randomized completely by spss15 software. the results showed that acid addition to rice during cooking caus...

Cereal Chem. 81(4):527–532 Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is used routinely to screen for starch thermal properties. In early generations of line development, the established analysis separately evaluates starch extracted from five, single corn kernels. A thermal property trait carried by a recessive gene would appear 25% of the time; thus, if five separate kernels were evaluated, the ...

The type and content of starch are believed to be the most critical factors in determining the storage and processing quality of lotus rhizome species, and the intention of this study is to survey the structure and properties of starches isolated from rhizomes of two lotus cultivars using X-ray powder diffraction, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance...

Starches were isolated from soaked and malted sorghum and studied to understand their physicochemical and functional properties. The swelling power (SP) and the water solubility index (WSI) of both starches were nearly similar at temperatures below 50 °C, but at more than 50 °C, the starch isolated from malted sorghum showed lower SP and high WSI than those isolated from raw and soaked sorghum....

We have isolated a starch mutant that was deficient in starch-branching enzyme I (BEI) from the endosperm mutant stocks of rice (Oryza sativa) induced by the treatment of fertilized egg cells with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea. The deficiency of BEI in this mutant was controlled by a single recessive gene, tentatively designated as starch-branching enzyme mutant 1 (sbe1). The mutant endosperm exhibite...

The objective of this work was to study the techno-functional properties alkalineextruded Cuzco corn flour (HMEA) obtained by Ca(OH)2 addition in extrusion process and compare it with those a traditional (HME). native meal conditioned at moistures 30, 35, 40 45% (w/w) extruded single-screw extruder 80 °C. For alkaline extrusion, 0.25 g 100 added. significantly affected HMEA increasing solubilit...