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The structure of wood and or cellulose fibers can to some extent be revealed by cellulases and other enzymes, both from binding patterns and the degradation kinetics, i.e.,contrary to the more common case, the enzyme is here used to characterise the substrate.

 

A critical step in the processing of flax, the retting, where the useful fibres are released by a microbiological process, has been virtually unchanged since ancient Egypt and represents a bottleneck in the modern flax fiber production. A modern approach is here to identify and apply only the critical enzymes for the process, and also to optimize the conditions for enzyme action.