Abbasi, Bilal Haider Khan, Taimoor Khurshid, Razia Nadeem, Muhammad Drouet, Samantha Hano, Christophe
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Scientific Reports
Fagonia indica (L.) is an important medicinal plant with multitude of therapeutic potentials. Such application has been attributed to the presence of various pharmacological important phytochemicals. However, the inadequate biosynthesis of such metabolites in intact plants has hampered scalable production. Thus, herein, we have established an in vi...
Farhat, Sarah Le, Phuong Kayal, Ehsan Noel, Benjamin Bigeard, Estelle Corre, Erwan Maumus, Florian Florent, Isabelle Alberti, Adriana Aury, Jean-Marc
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BMC Biology
BackgroundDinoflagellates are aquatic protists particularly widespread in the oceans worldwide. Some are responsible for toxic blooms while others live in symbiotic relationships, either as mutualistic symbionts in corals or as parasites infecting other protists and animals. Dinoflagellates harbor atypically large genomes (~ 3 to 250 Gb), with gene...
Engelen, F Thiry, D Devleesschauwer, B Heyndrickx, M Mainil, J De Zutter, L Cox, E
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Journal of applied microbiology
The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of Escherichia coli O157 and O26 on Belgian dairy cattle farms, the presence of virulence genes in the confirmed isolates and the association of E. coli O26 presence with calf diarrhoea. In total, 233 recto-anal mucosal swabs (RAMS) were obtained from healthy and diarrheic dairy calves on ...
Bender, Eric
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Nature
Biotechnology companies are engineering regulatory T cells to help protect the body from friendly fire.
da Luz, Felipe Staciaki; Universidade Es... Bueno, Adrielle Ferreira; Universidade E... Caetano, Renata Nascimento; Universidade... Rodrigues, Paulo Rogério Pinto; Universi... Banczek, Everson do Prado; Universidade ...
Barley malt was used as a source of amylases for the hydrolysis of cassava starch to produce reducing sugars for the alcoholic fermentation. Two routes of hydrolysis were evaluated in this work. One using milled barley malt and the other using the enzyme extract of this grain. The first one evaluated three concentrations of milled barley malt: 5, 1...
MOURA, P. F. GRIBNER, C. RECH, K. S. GATTO, L. J. RIGONI, A. A. R. BETIM, F. C. M. WGNER, R. DIAS, J. de F. G. MIGUEL, O. G. AUER, C. G.
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Resumo As pesquisas com fungos em busca de substâncias com potencial atividade biológica ganham cada vez mais destaque por serem fontes sustentáveis de novas moléculas. Diplodia pinea é um fungo fitopatogênico encontrado em espécies florestais, que tem apresentado poucos relatos de moléculas com atividade biológica e pode apresentar potencial biote...
Ewa, Favour Asiwe, Joseph N. A. Okogbenin, Emmanuel Ogbonna, Alex C. Egesi, Chiedozie
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Scientific Reports
Cassava is an important staple in Sub-Sahara Africa. While its production has rapidly expanded to the dry savannahs of the continent, productivity is low in this ecology due to drought by farmers, extending the growth cycle from 12 months to 18, and sometimes 24 months to ensure better harvests. Yield is a complex trait and often difficult to manip...
Lin, Chien-Yuan Vuu, Khanh M Amer, Bashar Shih, Patrick M Baidoo, Edward EK Scheller, Henrik V Eudes, Aymerick
2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), a chemically stable intermediate that naturally occurs during microbial degradation of lignin by bacteria, represents a promising building block for diverse biomaterials and polyesters such as biodegradable plastics. The lack of a chemical synthesis method has hindered large-scale utilization of PDC and metabol...
Sanders, Riley
Broadly, this paper is an effort in complicating traditional readings of eugenic themes in science fiction. Two landmark novels, Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) and Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), are highlighted as representative of the early and late stages of eugenics. By focusing on the troubling historical context surrounding these aut...
Strijk, Joeri S Hinsinger, Damien D Roeder, Mareike M Chatrou, Lars W Couvreur, Thomas L P Erkens, Roy H J Sauquet, Hervé Pirie, Michael D Thomas, Daniel C Cao, Kunfang
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Molecular ecology resources
The flowering plant family Annonaceae includes important commercially grown tropical crops, but development of promising species is hindered by a lack of genomic resources to build breeding programs. Annonaceae are part of the magnoliids, an ancient lineage of angiosperms for which evolutionary relationships with other major clades remain unclear. ...
