This thesis aimed to investigate how plant monoterpenes can be used to produce biobased plastics. Monoterpenes are volatile compounds, produced by plants to defend themselves against insects and pathogens or to attract pollinators. Many monoterpenes have a characteristic odour, and are used by humans in all kinds of products for their nice smell or...
Video over micro-organismen in de biobased economy
Plants have a sessile lifestyle. To ensure survival, they develop a potential to respond to environmental cues to set up an adaptive growth and development. This adaptation involves transcriptional reprogramming of the genome through chromatin-based mechanisms relying on the dynamic interplay of transcription factors (TFs), post-translational modif...
Proline is one of the proteinogenic amino acids and one of the most abundant amino acids in the cell. Next to serving as one of the non-essential amino acids, proline also has a central role in metabolism. In Chapter 1, the different functions of this imino acid are described, as well as the proline metabolic enzymes. The focus is on the enzyme pro...
Abstract Dietary fibres are a diverse group of substances, indigestible by human digestive enzymes, but (partially) fermentable in the human large intestine by the resident microbiota. Many health beneficial effects of fibres such as lowering blood cholesterol levels or increasing stool bulk have been reported. For some fibres, immunomodulating pro...
The increasing interest in plant biomass based biofuels and chemicals arouses mainly from the increased awareness of a possible finiteness of fuels. The current main challenge to produce such biofuels and biochemicals is economic efficiency, but also knowledge concerning type and effectiveness of both thermally assisted chemical and enzymatic treat...
It’s sometimes called a blueprint: DNA, the carrier of genetic information. But the term recipe book covers it better. It explains how the plant can respond to changing conditions. Plant breeders take advantage of natural variations in DNA. Genetic modification can make their job easier.
In een bedrijvencomplex in Wageningen werken ruim 40 wetenschappers aan de ontwikkeling van enzymen en enzymcocktails voor de afbraak van plantenvezels. Dyadic, met een Amerikaanse eigenaar, maar met diepe roots in Nederland, ontwikkelt enzymen en enzymcocktails voor verschillende toepassingen, waaronder ook de productie van bio-ethanol op basis va...
Kinetic modelling of enzymatic starch hydrolysis – a summary K.A. Bednarska The dissertation entitled ‘Kinetic modelling of enzymatic starch hydrolysis’ describes the enzymatic hydrolysis and kinetic modelling of liquefaction and saccharification of wheat starch. After the background information about the enzymes, the substrate and the basics of th...
