Microalgae protein digestibility: How to crack open the black box?
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Dynamic diffusion in softwood and hardwood cell walls using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching
Published in Holzforschung
The porosity of cell walls, as indicated by diffusion of rhodamine B dye, in the wood of Douglas fir, radiata pine, New Zealand red beech and Shining gum was compared under dynamic conditions using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. The comparative diffusion rate was estimated using the half-life of fluorescence recovery under water-satura...
Signalling between the sexes during pollen tube reception.
Published in Trends in plant science
Plant reproduction is a complex, highly-coordinated process in which a single, male germ cell grows through the maternal reproductive tissues to reach and fertilise the egg cell. Focussing on Arabidopsis thaliana, we review signalling between male and female partners which is important throughout the pollen tube journey, especially during pollen tu...
Callose in leptoid cell walls of the moss Polytrichum and the evolution of callose synthase across bryophytes
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction Leptoids, the food-conducting cells of polytrichaceous mosses, share key structural features with sieve elements in tracheophytes, including an elongated shape with oblique end walls containing modified plasmodesmata or pores. In tracheophytes, callose is instrumental in developing the pores in sieve elements that enable efficient phot...
Three Decades of REDOR in Protein Science: A Solid-State NMR Technique for Distance Measurement and Spectral Editing.
Published in International journal of molecular sciences
Solid-state NMR (ss-NMR) is a powerful tool to investigate noncrystallizable, poorly soluble molecular systems, such as membrane proteins, amyloids, and cell walls, in environments that closely resemble their physical sites of action. Rotational-echo double resonance (REDOR) is an ss-NMR methodology, which by reintroducing heteronuclear dipolar cou...
MIRS Database on cassava cell wall to predict cooking time at CIAT, Colombia
This database contains 111 MIR (mid-infrared) spectra of cassava flours acquired at 23/10/2020 in CIRAD (Montpellier), by using Nicolet IS50R Research FTIR spectrometer. The cassava roots used to produce the flour samples are harvested at CIAT (Colombia) from 2 fields : "parentales" and "sensorial" in November 2019-February 2020. Five harvests (tri...
Protein Quality and Protein Digestibility of Vegetable Creams Reformulated with Microalgae Inclusion
Microalgae are considered a valuable source of proteins that are used to enhance the nutritional value of foods. In this study, a standard vegetable cream recipe was reformulated through the addition of single-cell ingredients from Arthrospira platensis (spirulina), Chlorella vulgaris, Tetraselmis chui, or Nannochloropsis oceanica at two levels of ...
Modification Mechanisms and Properties of Poplar Wood via Grafting with 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate/N,N′-methylenebis(ac...
As the only renewable resource among the four basic materials (steel, cement, plastic, wood), wood itself and wood products have a “low carbon” value and play an important role in storing carbon. The moisture absorption and expansion properties of wood limit its application scope and shorten its service life. To enhance the mechanical and physical ...
Effects of Different Sulfur Compounds on the Distribution Characteristics of Subcellular Lead Content in Arabis alpina L...
Sulfur plays a vital role in the phytoremediation of lead-contaminated soil. The effects of different sulfur forms (S Na2S, and Na2SO4) on lead (Pb) absorption in hyperaccumulator Arabis alpina L. var. parviflora Franch were studied in a soil pot experiment. The subcellular sulfur and lead enrichment characteristics in A. alpina were studied by add...
Are cell wall traits a component of the succulent syndrome?
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Succulence is an adaptation to low water availability characterised by the presence of water-storage tissues that alleviate water stress under low water availability. The succulent syndrome has evolved convergently in over 80 plant families and is associated with anatomical, physiological and biochemical traits. Despite the alleged importance of ce...
