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• n  a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers

• Take cellulose, the tough, abundant organic molecule that composes the cell walls of all plants.
• A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts.
• Last week two women scientists explained how plants build the cellulose membranes that form cell walls, a process of vital interest to textile technologists.

News & Articles

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• Georgia-Pacific To Convert Pending Buckeye Technologies Acquisition To Merger Through Shareholder Vote
  June 26, 2013 (Press Release) - Georgia-Pacific LLC and GP Cellulose Group LLC, an entity controlled by Georgia-Pacific, today announced that GP Cellulose Group has chosen to convert to a "long form" merger in the pending acquisition of Buckeye Technologies Inc. (BKI) and to terminate the previously announced tender offer in accordance with the merger agreement with Buckeye Technologies.
  June 26, 2013 - PaperAge.com
• Georgia-Pacific To Convert Pending Buckeye Technologies Acquisition To Merger Through Shareholder Vote; Terminates ...
  ATLANTA, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia-Pacific LLC and GP Cellulose Group LLC, an entity controlled by Georgia-Pacific, today announced that GP Cellulose Group has chosen to convert to a "long ...
  June 26, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• The U.S. Natural Polymer Market is Expected to Reach USD 7.12 Billion by 2018: Transparency Market Research
  ALBANY, New York, June 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Transparency Market Research ( http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com ) has released its latest market report, titled, " Natural Polymers (Cellulose ...
  June 25, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• George Church in Reuters
  We were expecting them to grow on cellulose and we weren't expecting them to grow on antibiotics,Church said.
• Samuel Bodman in NewsBlaze
  The challenge is to find ways to go farther and to go faster - we must progress to the next level,said Secretary Bodman. "That means we must accelerate the development and deployment of next generation biofuels, fuels made from cellulose,...
• Tom Harkin in Forbes
  We're going to be looking at NREL for a lot of research into this and we're going to put more money into research on cellulose conversion,Harkin said.