9 articles in this issue
Flavia Darqui, Laura M. Radonic, Nilda López, H. Esteban Hopp, Marisa López Bilbao
Background: Lettuce is a globally important leafy vegetable and a model plant for biotechnology due to its adaptability to tissue culture and stable genetic transformation. Lettuce is also crucial for functional genomics research in the Asteraceae which i... see more
Shuanghu Fan, Kang Li, Yanchun Yan, Junhuan Wang, Jiayi Wang, Cheng Qiao, Ting Yang, Yang Jia, Baisuo Zhao
Background: Biodegradation is a reliable approach for efficiently eliminating persistent pollutants such as chlorpyrifos. Despite many bacteria or fungi isolated from contaminated environment and capable of degrading chlorpyrifos, limited enzymes responsi... see more
Haiyan Guo, Qiang Wang, Yongjun Li, Xiuyuan Yin, Hao Zhang, Jianfei Shi
Background: CDC25 is a dual-specificity phosphatase that was first identified in the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a cell cycle-defective mutant. Although CDC25 is involved in the cell cycle of ovarian granulosa cells, the CDC25 signaling pathway has... see more
Alex Dueñas-Gonza, Ursulo Yapo-Pari, Patricia Vega, Margiht Romero-Ugarte, Juan Tapia, Luis Molina, Antonio Lazarte-Rivera, D.G. Pacheco-Salazar, Mario Esparza
Background: Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology is used in various applications such as wastewater treatment with the production of electrical energy. The objective of this study was to estimate the biodepuration of oils and fats, the elimination of blue... see more
Victor Revin, Nelli Atykyan, Ekaterina Lyovina, Yuliya Dragunova, Victoriya Ushkina
Background: Study of correlation between pretreatment of yeast with ultraviolet radiation and efficiency of further fermentation of wort made of ultrafine grain particles to ethanol. Results: We investigated three races of industrial yeast Saccharomyces c... see more
Juliana Silva Lemões, Claudia Fernanda Lemons e Silva, Sabrina Peres Farias Avila, Cândida Raquel Scherrer Montero, Sérgio Delmar dos Anjos e Silva, Dimitrios Samios, Maria do Carmo Ruaro Peralba
Background: Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is essential for using it as a raw material for chemical and biofuel production. This study evaluates the effects of variables in the chemical pretreatment of the Arundo biomass on the glucose and xylose... see more
Shushan Zhou, Li Jiang, Shuangxue Guan, Yongxia Gao, Qinghua Gao, Guangdong Wang, Ke Duan
Background: Phalaenopsis is an important ornamental flowering plant that belongs to the Orchidaceae family and is cultivated worldwide. Phalaenopsis has a long juvenile phase; therefore, it is important to understand the genetic elements regulating the tr... see more
Pamella S. Santa-Rosa, Anita L. Souza, Rosemary A. Roque, Edmar V. Andrade, Spartaco Astolfi-Filho, Adolfo J. Mota, Carlos G. Nunes-Silva
Background: Cellulolytic enzymes of microbial origin have great industrial importance because of their wide application in various industrial sectors. Fungi are considered the most efficient producers of these enzymes. Bioprospecting survey to identify fu... see more
Zisheng Wang, Qihuan Zhang, Fancui Meng, Shuai Li, Qiaoqin Xu, Zhitao Qi
Background: Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGRPs) are important pattern recognition receptors of the host innate immune system that are involved in the immune defense against bacterial pathogens. PGRPs have been characterized in several fish sp... see more