Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Virginia Tech research team creates potential food source from non-food plants

Blacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 17, 2013



A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops.

Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, led a t