ORTIZ, Daniel MORENO, Flavio DÍEZ, Maria Claudia
ABSTRACT In the Amazon region, agroforestry systems (AFSs) are recommended as a sustainable production alternative for local communities. A common component in Amazonian AFSs are tropical fruit trees, which can form the canopy or grow in the understory. In this study, we evaluated the effect of high radiation on photosynthesis, growth and seedling ...
Alamu, E.O. Olatunde, G.O. Adegunwa, M.O. Adebanjo, L.A. Awoyinfa, O.C. Soyoye, J.B.
Open Access Journal; Published online: 13 Jan 2021 / Biofortified maize has received increased attention from a nutraceutical perspective because of its bioactive phytochemical components, including carotenoids. However, biofortified maize is limiting in some amino acids which are present in soybeans; hence both crops are used as blends in food pro...
Moreno, Juan C. Martinez-Jaime, Silvia Kosmacz, Monika Sokolowska, Ewelina M. Schulz, Philipp Fischer, Axel Luzarowska, Urszula Havaux, Michel Skirycz, Aleksandra
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Recently, we published a set of tobacco lines expressing the Daucus carota (carrot) DcLCYB1 gene with accelerated development, increased carotenoid content, photosynthetic efficiency, and yield. Because of this development, DcLCYB1 expression might be of general interest in crop species as a strategy to accelerate development and increase biomass p...
Su, Buli Li, Anzhang Deng, Ming-Rong Zhu, Honghui
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Microorganisms
We previously constructed a Saccharomyces cerevisiae carotenoid producer BL03-D-4 which produced much more carotenoid in YPM (modified YPD) media than YPD media. In this study, the impacts of nutritional components on carotenoid accumulation of BL03-D-4 were investigated. When using YPM media, the carotenoid yield was increased 10-fold compared to ...
Repajić, Maja Cegledi, Ena Zorić, Zoran Pedisić, Sandra Elez Garofulić, Ivona Radman, Sanja Palčić, Igor Dragović-Uzelac, Verica
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Foods
This study evaluated the presence of bioactives in wild nettle leaves and stalks during the phenological stage and in the context of natural habitat diversity. Thus, wild nettle samples collected before flowering, during flowering and after flowering from 14 habitats situated in three different regions (continental, mountain and seaside) were analy...
Pardo-Medina, Javier Gutiérrez, Gabriel Limón, M. Carmen Avalos, Javier
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Frontiers in Microbiology
The proteins of the White Collar 1 family (WC) constitute a major class of flavin photoreceptors, widely distributed in fungi, that work in cooperation with a WC 2 protein forming a regulatory complex. The WC complex was investigated in great detail in Neurospora crassa , a model fungus in photobiology studies, where it controls all its major photo...
Barata, Luccas M. Andrade, Eloísa H. Ramos, Alessandra R. de Lemos, Oriel F. Setzer, William N. Byler, Kendall G. Maia, José Guilherme S. da Silva, Joyce Kelly R.
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
This study evaluated the chemical compositions of the leaves and fruits of eight black pepper cultivars cultivated in Pará State (Amazon, Brazil). Hydrodistillation and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry were employed to extract and analyze the volatile compounds, respectively. Sesquiterpene hydrocarbons were predominant (58.5–90.9%) in the culti...
Neelam, Kumari Dey, Sonali Sim, Ralene Lee, Jason Au Eong, Kah-Guan
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Nutrients
Fructus lycii ( F. lycii ) is an exotic “berry-type” fruit of the plant Lycium barbarum that is characterized by a complex mixture of bioactive compounds distinguished by their high antioxidant potential. F. lycii is used in traditional Chinese home cooking and in the Chinese Pharmacopeia as an aid to vision and longevity as well as a remedy for di...
Sansone, Clementina Galasso, Christian Lo Martire, Marco Fernández, Tomás Vega Musco, Luigi Dell’Anno, Antonio Bruno, Antonino Noonan, Douglas M. Albini, Adriana Brunet, Christophe
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Marine Drugs
Marine organisms with fast growth rates and great biological adaptive capacity might have biotechnological interests, since ecological competitiveness might rely on enhanced physiological or biochemical processes’ capability promoting protection, defense, or repair intracellular damages. The invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea , a non-indigenous...
Zarantoniello, Matteo Bortoletti, Martina Olivotto, Ike Ratti, Stefano Poltronieri, Carlo Negrato, Elena Caberlotto, Stefano Radaelli, Giuseppe Bertotto, Daniela
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Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
The present study aimed to investigate the acute response of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles exposed to temperature, salinity and ammonia stress. Radioimmunoassay was used to evaluate cortisol levels, whereas insulin-like growth factors (igf1 and igf2), myostatin (mstn), heat-shock protein 70 (hsp70) and glucocorticoid receptor (gr) gen...