Specific molecular property of lignin in trees determines difficulty of using microbial fermentation to turn trees and other plants into industrial chemicals.

Scientists at NC State University have discovered how modifying lignin in trees using CRISPR can make them better suited for ...

Introduction to Bioactive Peptides What are Bioactive Peptides? Bioactive peptides are short protein fragments, typically ...

Despite the long history of human consumption of fermented products, though, little has been known about the history of the use of fermentative microorganisms and the history of related cultural ...

The rumen microbiota—a symbiont to its host and consists of critical functional substances—plays a vital role in the animal ...

The evolved hybrids have already shown fermentative capacities on par with, and in some cases exceeding, those of commercial strains. Moreover, their unique aroma profiles — ranging from sweet ...

The 3,500-year-old mummies unearthed two decades ago in Xinjiang region captured global attention this week after scientists ...

Winegrowers worldwide are now experimenting with them again, and the amber wine category they have mothered – textured, even tannic wines made from white grapes with intensely complex fermentative ...

“Fermentative microbes played such an important role in the daily life of these ancient humans, and they propagated these microbes for thousands of years without knowing the existence of them fo ...