Methods of enhancing corn oil recovery from a bio-refinery using recycled by-products of the process including emulsifiers in the form of emulsions, defatted emulsions, precipitates thereof, and/or dried products thereof.

This invention disclosure relates to novel maize starch. The starch can be made from the newly developed waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize that has low activity of Granule Bound Starch Synthase I (GBSSI), which results in low amylose level. The starch from newly developed waxy sugary-2 double-mutant is freeze-thaw stable and has high viscosity. In comparison with the starch of the existing waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize, the new waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize starch showed, inter alia, improved pasting profile, starch granule integrity, larger starch granule size, and higher viscosity.

Genetically-modified plants having increased tolerance to heat stress are described. Methods of producing such genetically-modified plants are also disclosed. The genetically-modified plants comprise exogenous nucleic acid encoding a thermostable protein having starch synthase activity. Genetically-modified plants have increased yield when grown under elevated conditions as compared to control plants.

This invention disclosure relates to novel maize starch. The starch can be made from the newly developed waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize that has low activity of Granule Bound Starch Synthase I (GBSSI), which results in low amylose level. The starch from newly developed waxy sugary-2 double-mutant is freeze-thaw stable and has high viscosity. In comparison with the starch of the existing waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize, the new waxy sugary-2 double-mutant maize starch showed, inter alia, improved pasting profile, starch granule integrity, larger starch granule size, and higher viscosity.

The present invention provides a process for producing a food ingredient or beverage ingredient. The present invention also provides a process for producing food product or beverage product. The present invention also provides a process for providing starch, amylose, amylopectin, -glucan, fructan, non-starch polysaccharide, dietary fibre or resistant starch to improve one or more indicators of health in a mammal.

Provided are a method for preparing starch using carbon dioxide, a recombinant microorganism, a method for constructing the recombinant microorganism, and a reagent. The method for preparing starch using carbon dioxide comprises: (1) providing energy and carbon sources for microbial cells on the basis of carbon dioxide and extracellular non-optical energy; and (2) generating starch within the microbial cells on the basis of at least one of up-regulated glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase and starch synthase in the microbial cells. In this way, by utilizing non-optical energy, such as electric energy or hydrogen energy, starch can be effectively prepared inside the microbial cells by fixing carbon dioxide.

The present invention provides compositions and methods of altering/improving wheat phenotypes. Furthermore, methods of breeding wheat and/or other closely related species to produce plants having altered or improved phenotypes are provided.