Altering the Food Content of Plants - Starch is the major storage carbohydrate in higher plants. A wide range of different starches is used by the food and other industries. These are obtained by sourcing the starch from different plant varieties coupled with new enzymatic or chemical approaches to creating novel starches with new functional properties.

Higher plants produce over 200 kinds of fatty acids, some of which have value as food. However, many are likely to have industrial (non-good) uses of higher value than edible fatty acids