Starch

Starch is probably the most important energy deposit in Nature and we generate designer starch by state-of the-art DNA-free Crispr-Cas9 genome editing and molecular models by chemical synthesis to understand how its well-organized packing is compromised by efficient bioavailability.

Since starch is also the major food for most organisms and we investigate the interaction of starch with environmental enzymes to design healthy foods, biocomposites and bioplastics, efficient enzymes for clean modification of starch and more robust, disease-resistant and high yielding starch crops. We work on important starch crops such as potato, barley, maize, wheat, mungbean etc.