Their results show that leaving fabric with indican and water on a windowsill converts indican to indigo without even adding the enzyme. “This was a really surprising observation,” says Welner.

New research in blue jean dyeing is offering a stitch of hope in the denim industry. Blue denim is currently dyed with indigo in an unsustainable process that requires harsh reducing and alkaline ...

If we can identify the enzyme the plants used to produce the sugar cage and clone its gene, we think the microbes can make large quantities of indican for dyeing jeans without the use of highly ...

If we can identify the enzyme the plants use to produce the sugar cage and clone its gene, we think the microbes can make large quantities of indican for dyeing jeans without the use of highly ...

Using indican – a colourless compound also derived form indigo-producing plants – could reduce the environmental and societal impacts associated with dying jeans by around 90 percent because ...

The scientists also discovered they can use an enzyme instead of light to help speed up the process of the chemical reaction. When the light and enzyme indican dyeing processes were assessed by ...

Using indican instead of indigo in jeans dyeing could cut waste and CO2, research suggests. DUBAI 35°C; ... while using the enzyme could slash the impacts by up to 92 per cent. Pixabay.

“Indican is also a natural product, so it’s not anything artificial or weird,” says Hededam Welner. ... Using enzymes led to an even greater reduction of 92 per cent.

Using Indican -- a colourless compound also derived form indigo-producing plants -- could reduce the environmental and societal impacts associated with dying jeans by around 90 percent because it ...