The volume of cottonseed garbage during the 1800s became so problematic that a number of states passed laws to regulate its disposal.16 But while the bolls and leaves were still trash, in the early 1900s the seed began to move up the value chain to be used as fertilizer and animal feed.
The four were focused on the proteasome, a complex of proteins in cells that work as molecular garbagedisposal units, engulfing and chopping up proteins when they are no longer needed.