I am a plant molecular biologist who is interested in understanding of how trees make cellulose. Simply put, cellulose is a chain of glucose molecules, and a large number of such cellulose chains ...

In general, cellulose nanofibres made from tree pulp are several micrometres-long or less, and therefore have particular uses. For the past 30 years, Tajima has been harnessing fermentation ...

Cellulose is everywhere. In fact, it is the most abundant organic molecule on the Earth! It’s in (but not limited to) our food, clothing, and plastics, and the cellulose compound nitrocellulose is ...

A team of scientists discovered a naturally occurring gene in the poplar tree that enhances photosynthetic activity and ...

By analyzing tree rings for carbon-14, a naturally occurring radioactive variant of carbon, the team detected this ancient ...

including samples from dead trees buried in riverbanks and timbers excavated during archeological digs. The researchers then ...