Polysaccharides offer unique and valuable functional properties, persisting in technological importance and poised to grow more critical due to sustainability demands and emerging applications in medical and life sciences. This book presents comprehensive information about carbohydrate polymers, providing readers with an enhanced appreciation of carbohydrate structure and function, a new enzyme library, and extraction strategies that will help to advance a number of exciting domains of research, including genomics, proteomics, chemical synthesis, materials science, and engineering.Key FeaturesDetails the source, production, structures, properties, and current and potential applications of polysaccharidesDiscusses general strategies of isolation, separation, and characterization of polysaccharidesDescribes botanical, algal, animal, and microbial sources of polysaccharidesDemonstrates the importance of carbohydrates in new lead generationHighlights the range of possibilities for polysaccharides to make real-world impact
