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Structural characterization of water-soluble polysaccharides isolated from leaves of Hedera nepalensis

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 2023
Background Hedera nepalensis is a traditional medicinal plants, and the dried leaves of it are generally used for the cure and treatment of many diseases, also widely known as Chang-Chun-Teng in Chinese.
ChungHyok Ho, Yuwen Wang, Xianbin Liu, Yifa Zhou, UnHak Pak, Lin Sun   +5 more
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Prospection of Fungal Lignocellulolytic Enzymes Produced from Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril) and Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) Seeds: Scaling for Bioreactor and Saccharification Profile of Sugarcane Bagasse

Microorganisms, 2021
The lignocellulosic biomass comprises three main components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Degradation and conversion of these three components are attractive to biotechnology.
Alex Graça Contato, Tássio Brito de Oliveira, Guilherme Mauro Aranha, Emanuelle Neiverth de Freitas, Ana Claudia Vici, Karoline Maria Vieira Nogueira, Rosymar Coutinho de Lucas, Ana Sílvia de Almeida Scarcella, Marcos Silveira Buckeridge, Roberto Nascimento Silva, Maria de Lourdes Teixeira de Moraes Polizeli   +10 more
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Production and characterization of endo-polygalacturonase from Aspergillus niger in solid-state fermentation in double-surface bioreactor

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2011
Endo-polygalacturonase (endo-PG) production by Aspergillus niger T0005/007-2 in solid medium with 170 mm of height was evaluated in a cylindrical double surface bioreactor in 96-h experiments.
Diogo Henrique Hendges, Queli Montanari, Eloane Malvessi, Mauricio Moura da Silveira   +3 more
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Enzyme activity in the micropylar region of Melanoxylon brauna Schott seeds during germination under heat stress conditions

Journal of Seed Science, 2020
: Recent studies indicate that global temperatures will rise substantially in the 21st century, leading to the extinction of several plant species, as plant metabolism and germination are greatly affected by temperature.
Marcone Moreira Santos, Eduardo Euclydes de Lima e Borges, Glauciana da Mata Ataíde, Raquel Maria de Oliveira Pires, Debora Kelli Rocha   +4 more
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Cloning and Expression of Pectobacterium carotovorum Endo-polygalacturonase Gene in Pichia pastoris for Production of Oligogalacturonates

BioResources, 2016
A bacterial endo-polygalacturonase (endo-PGase) gene from the plant pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum was cloned into pGAPZαA vector and constitutively expressed in Pichia pastoris.
Nagina Rafique, Romana Tabassum, Muhammad Siddique Awan, William Orts, Dominic W. S. Wong   +4 more
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Structural characterization and anti-oxidation activity evaluation of pectin from Lonicera japonica Thunb.

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Pectins are nutrient components of plants and are widely used in the food industry. In this study, one major pectin fraction (WLJP-A0.2b) with Mw of 40.6 kDa was purified from Lonicera japonica Thunb. The structural feature and antioxidant activity of it
Xiaodan Qi, Xiaodan Qi, Yang Yu, Xinyi Wang, Jialei Xu, Xiang Wang, Zhangkai Feng, Yifa Zhou, Hongxing Xiao, Lin Sun   +9 more
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Purification, chemical analysis and inhibitory effects on galectin-3 of enzymatic pH-modified citrus pectin

Food Chemistry: X, 2021
Modified citrus pectin (MCP), a commercially available dietary supplement prepared from citrus pectin, contains several different polysaccharide domains, but its primary chemical structure and the binding epitopes that antagonize galectin-3 function ...
Tao Zhang, Guoqing Sun, Ming Shuai, Jingyu Ye, Jian Huang, Xiaodong Yao, Chengxin Sun, Xun Min   +7 more
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Biotechnological valorization of sugar beet wastes into value-added products

MANAS: Journal of Engineering, 2023
The sugar beet processing in the sugar production industry releases huge amounts of sugar beet pulp, lime residue, and molasses, which can be considered a valuable by-product as a source of cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin.
Azhar Makambai Kyzy, Aichurok Mazhitova
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Transgenic Expression of Pear PGIP in Tomato Limits Fungal Colonization

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2000
Transgenic tomato plants expressing the pear fruit polygalacturonase inhibitor protein (pPGIP) were used to demonstrate that this inhibitor of fungal pathogen endopolygalacturonases (endo-PGs) influences disease development.
Ann L. T. Powell, Jan van Kan, Arjen ten Have, Jaap Visser, L. Carl Greve, Alan B. Bennett, John M. Labavitch   +6 more
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Combining phenotypic, physiological, and multi‐omics studies to provide new insights on the role of 2,4‐epibrassinolide in regulation of seed shattering in Elymus sibiricus L.

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Seed shattering limits the production of Elymus sibiricus L., and application of exogenous brassinosteroid significantly alleviates plant organ abscission. Methods To explore the potential regulatory network of brassinosteroid on seed shattering, the abscission zone of E. sibiricus cv. Lanyu No.
Huanhuan Lu, Yiyang Wan, Liuban Tang, Yongsen Qiu, Yancui Zhao, Yuying Zheng, Wengang Xie   +6 more
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