Talk:Cellulose

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Rated "high" as high school/SAT biology content, part of plant cell walls. - tameeria 05:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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Rated "high" as high school/SAT biology content, part of plant cell walls. - tameeria 05:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Details on cellulose degradation needed

Cellulose recycling is one of the important bio-geo-cycling events that maintain the integrity of our ecosystem. There is no good write up on this. Also there is no material on its biochemistry. I have added a few material in the chemistry section, but require help in cleanup and material addition Nattu 10:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cellulose Estimation

Cellulose can be extracted from biomass, but how do we estimate cellulose. What is cellulose estimation method? How is it done?

A standard method using acetic acid and nitric acid, and anthrone dissolved in sulfuric acid was described in Updegraff DM (1969) Semimicro determination of cellulose in biological materials. Anal Biochem 32: 420-424
I'll add this info to the article. --Slashme 06:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] biogeneration of cellulose

is there any place on wikipedia which describes how plants make cellulose?

[edit] Incorrect diagram =

can someone fix the diagram of cellulose? the structure is incorrect, there needs to be an O atom either at C1 or C4 inside the brackets. Xcomradex 00:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] structures of cellulose

In literature the natural crystaline cellulose is usually referred to as Cellulose I (I alpha & I beta) and as Cellulose II after mercerization. Not sure how old the alpha, beta, gamma nomenclature from the article is, but I'd put the one I wrote in the article. JSchoeck; 14:41 (MET), 22.6.06

[edit] Fungi

Why is there no mention of cellulose being located in the cell walls of some fungi. D-rew 19:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cellulose production

Could someone please get an accurate figure on total cellulose production? 1.5 trillion tons is roughly how much could be produced annually if every square inch of land area on Earth were used solely for cellulose production 365 days a year. 72.224.97.185 03:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)