De Saeger, Jonas Park, Jihae Chung, Hoo Sun Hernalsteens, Jean-Pierre Van Lijsebettens, Mieke Inzé, Dirk Van Montagu, Marc Depuydt, Stephen
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Almost 40 years ago the first transgenic plant was generated through Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation, which, until now, remains the method of choice for gene delivery into plants. Ever since, optimized Agrobacterium strains have been developed with additional (genetic) modifications that were mostly aimed at enhancing the transfor...
Hao, Yansheng Cheng, Shaokoon Tanaka, Yo Hosokawa, Yoichiroh Yalikun, Yaxiaer Li, Ming
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Cell mechanical properties, e.g. elastic and shear modulus, play vital roles in cell activities and functions, such as cell growth, cell division, cell motion, and cell adhesion. Measurement of single-cell mechanical properties has attracted great interest from both academia and industry, due to its importance in a variety of applications, such as ...
Zwyrtková, Jana Šimková, Hana Doležel, Jaroslav
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The identification of causal genomic loci and their interactions underlying various traits in plants has been greatly aided by progress in understanding the organization of the nuclear genome. This provides clues to the responses of plants to environmental stimuli at the molecular level. Apart from other uses, these insights are needed to fully exp...
Arsov, Alexander Petrov, Kaloyan Petrova, Penka
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The energy crisis, depletion of oil reserves, and global climate changes are pressing problems of developed societies. One possibility to counteract that is microbial production of butanol, a promising new fuel and alternative to many petrochemical reagents. However, the high butanol toxicity to all known microbial species is the main obstacle to i...
Sharifi-Rad, Javad Salehi, Bahare Stojanović-Radić, Zorica Z Fokou, Patrick Valere Tsouh Sharifi-Rad, Marzieh Mahady, Gail B Sharifi-Rad, Majid Masjedi, Mohammad-Reza Lawal, Temitope O Ayatollahi, Seyed Abdulmajid
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Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, with approximately one third of the world's population being latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis treatment consists in an intensive phase and a continuation phase. Unfortunately, the appearance of multi drug-r...
Li, Xin Wang, Xiaoqian Duan, Chuanlan Yi, Shasha Gao, Zhengquan Xiao, Chaowen Agathos, Spiros N Wang, Guangce Li, Jian
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Although biotechnologies for astaxanthin production from Haematococcus pluvialis have been developed for decades and many production facilities have been established throughout the world, the production cost is still high. This paper is to evaluate the current production processes and production facilities, to analyze the R&D strategies for process...
Rahimi, Shadi Modin, Oskar Mijakovic, Ivan
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Water contamination is a growing environmental issue. Several harmful effects on human health and the environment are attributed to nitrogen contamination of water sources. Consequently, many countries have strict regulations on nitrogen compound concentrations in wastewater effluents. Wastewater treatment is carried out using energy- and cost-inte...
Fayyaz, Mehmooda Chew, Kit Wayne Show, Pau Loke Ling, Tau Chuan Ng, I-Son Chang, Jo-Shu
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Microalgae-based bioproducts are in limelight because of their promising future, novel characteristics, the current situation of population needs, and rising prices of rapidly depleting energy resources. Algae-based products are considered as clean sustainable energy and food resources. At present, they are not commercialized due to their high prod...
Seyed Hameed, Ahkam Saddam Rawat, Parkash Singh Meng, Xiangfeng Liu, Weifeng
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Phytoestrogens are a class of plant produced polyphenolic compounds with diphenolic structure, which is similar to 17β-estradiol. These phytoestrogens preferentially bind to estrogen receptors, however, with weak affinity. Recently, many studies have found that these phytoestrogens can be transformed by gut microbiota through novel enzymatic reacti...
Capson-Tojo, Gabriel Batstone, Damien J Grassino, María Vlaeminck, Siegfried E Puyol, Daniel Verstraete, Willy Kleerebezem, Robbert Oehmen, Adrian Ghimire, Anish Pikaar, Ilje
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Sustainable development is driving a rapid focus shift in the wastewater and organic waste treatment sectors, from a "removal and disposal" approach towards the recovery and reuse of water, energy and materials (e.g. carbon or nutrients). Purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) are receiving increasing attention due to their capability of growing photoh...