Objective
More than two million tonnes of sugar beet pulp containing 20-25% pectins are generated annually in EU. Due to a poor functional property the pectin cannot be used as a high added-value product. To solve this European problem we want to improve the pectin in the sugar beet plant by molecular farming and down-stream processing. On a short term basis we want to improve the pectin by enzymatic modification. On a medium term basis we want to control the quality of the pectin product by introducing proteins and enzymes, which can modify the pectin in the plant cell wall. On a long term basis we want to isolate the biosynthetic machinery producing the pectin polymer, by purifying the membrane-bound enymes involved in the polygalacturonan synthesis, its methylation and acetylation, and by using Arabidopsis genetics for the discovery of a new genes involved in pectin biosynthesis. In addition we want to determine the structure-functional relationship of a new pectin product.
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- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Denmark
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