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Heat shock, a transient exposure to high temperatures, is a substantial hazard to rice (Oryza sativa L.) production and sustainability. The objective of this review paper is to summarize the impact of heat shock on rice and explore approaches to mitigate its adverse effects to achieve sustainable production. Rice is a staple food for billions of pe...

The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet the rising need for food, while minimizing adverse impacts on the environment, protecting natural resources, and ensuring agricultural output over the long term. The pressing need to increase agricultural yield through sustainable agriculture is being emphasized. Several Bacillus species have been used...

Gossypium arboreum varieties NDLA 3116-3 and NDLA 3104-4 have mean seed cotton yield potential of 1257 kg ha-1 in central zone and 928 kg ha-1 in southern zone, respectively and are released for commercial cultivation in the respective zones Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 24(4): e492824416, 2024 Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding. Printed...

Background The type II based CRISPR-Cas system remains restrictedly utilized in archaea, a featured domain of life that ranks parallelly with Bacteria and Eukaryotes. Methanococcus maripaludis, known for rapid growth and genetic tractability, serves as an exemplary model for studying archaeal biology and exploring CO2−based biotechnological applica...

Traditional vaccines can be classified into inactivated vaccines, live attenuated vaccines, and subunit vaccines given orally or via intramuscular (IM) injection or subcutaneous (SC) injection for the prevention of infectious diseases. Recently, recombinant protein vaccines, DNA vaccines, mRNA vaccines, and multiple/alternative administering route...

Squalene is a natural triterpenoid and a biosynthetic precursor of steroids and hopanoids in microorganisms, plants, humans, and other animals. Squalene has exceptional properties, such as its antioxidant activity, a high penetrability of the skin, and the ability to trigger the immune system, promoting its application in the cosmetic, sustenance,...

Chakhao is a popular pigmented black rice variety with remarkably high anthocyanin content. Due to its susceptibility to various biotic and abiotic stresses, its production has remained low. Here, two genes, Pi54 blast-resistant and OsSPL14, high-yielding genes of rice, were pyramided in a Chakhao lan-drace by crossing with CR Dhan 307. From a tota...

The article discusses the method of physical and technical functional analogy for the mathematical description of the functioning of biological organs and systems, and provides mathematical models of biotechnological objects. These models were used to obtain new information in the scientific and industrial spheres, to study a biological object with...

Background. Ageing is associated with progressive impairment of physical functions and increased risk of age-related chronic diseases. Polyphenols such as mangiferin, quercetin and trans-cinnamic acid are also used for the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases. Toxicological research was important in biomedical research, as some high-dose ex...

Recent advances in biotechnology have significantly impacted aquaculture production, revolutionizing the industry. which explores key developments in applying biotechnological tools to enhance various aspects of aquaculture. Molecular techniques, such as genetic manipulation, have enabled the selective breeding of fish for desirable traits, improvi...

Climate change, global food security and environmental sustainability have become major challenges over the past decades. The race against the clock, in which humanity finds itself due to the irreversible nature of global warming and the increasing impact of harmful organisms on agricultural crops, which considerably reduce food security and food s...

Abstrak Produksi telur itik asin secara konvensional memiliki keterbatasan dalam menghasilkan produk yang berkualitas tinggi, dan prosesnya yang masih tradisional melibatkan beberapa tahapan yang panjang. Tujuan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah untuk mempromosikan cara aru dalam membuat telur asin dengan penerapan metode bioteknologi atau fermentas...

Gas compressibility factor is necessary in most natural gas engineering calculations. The most common sources of z-factor values are experimental measurements, equation of state and empirical correlations. There are more than twenty correlations available with two variables for calculating the z-factor from fitting Standing-Katz chart values in EOS...

This book on medical biotechnology offers a wide array of topics and cutting-edge research in the field featuring contributions from multiple authors, each specializing in their respective areas, making it highly valuable to science students and enthusiasts. The book provides a comprehensive coverage on a diverse range of topics, including sequence...

Synthetic bacterial communities are currently under intensive investigation. Using natural communities as models, we established the CoNoS (Communities of Niche-optimized Strains) approach to create synthetic communities composed of different strains of the same species. By combining CoNoS with adaptive laboratory evolution, we identified new amino...

Panela is the second most important rural agro-industry after coffee in Colombia. This agro-industry produces a large amount of bagasse from non-centrifugal sugar (B-NCSP) without valorization. B-NCSP is used in combustion boilers in panela production, causing greenhouse gas emissions and health problems. This research aims to compare the sustainab...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare three types of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) biomasses for their content of biologically active substances and potential application. The first one was from unprocessed lavender (L-UNTR22_Z) and the other two were industrial steam-distilled lavender solid residues (L-SD22_Z and L-SD...

The aim of this study was to evaluate chemical characteristics and biological activity of progenies from the first cycle of recurrent selection of Var-ronia curassavica in order to identify promising progenies for the next stages of the breeding program. The seeds were collected from the parental accession VCUR-503 (chemotype E-caryophyllene/viridi...

Abstract Introduction: The epidemiology of ocular manifestations and associated complications in patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been investigated worldwide. Herein, we aimed to summarize the frequency of ocular symptoms of COVID-19 in the current systematic review and meta-analysis using available literature. Materials and...

Avec l’augmentation des besoins alimentaires de la population algérienne galopante, et l’épuisement des réserves en eau combiné à la sécheresse, la salinisation des sols, et le changement climatique qui a eu pour conséquence une “extension” des régions arides et semi-arides, une dégradation plus rapide du couvert végétal et des sols et donc une “pr...

Composting is one of the most applied biotechnological alternatives for the treatment and recovery of green waste (GW). However, its transformation is a challenge, due to the physicochemical characteristics of GWs that affect the process time and product quality. This limits the application of this technology in developing countries such as Colombi...

The ornamental kale, scientifically known as Brassica oleracea var. acephala, stands out as an attractive plant admired for its vibrant leaves that grace the winter season. Notably, the hybrid KTOK-28-1 × KTOK-40-1 demonstrated the highest embryogenesis rate, yielding 56.12 embryos per Petri dish. This efficiency largely hinges on the characteristi...

RESUME: Le déficit hydrique est l'un des facteurs les plus limitant de la croissance des plantes et par conséquent de leurs rendements, dans les régions arides et semi-arides du monde. L'identification d'indices qui permettent de caractériser les génotypes les plus tolérants à la sécheresse, est à cet égard très utile puisqu'elle permet d'évaluer l...

We investigated the genetic control of the three yield components in cowpea: number of grains per pod, pod length and grain size, in a biparental cross. Genetic parameters were estimated in generations of a cross between two contrasting genitors, using a randomized complete block design with three replications. Narrow-sense heritability estimates v...

ISBN 978-85-204-6126-6 Neste capítulo, é discutida uma visão geral da biotecnologia aplicada à saúde, considerando-se os desafios mundiais em termos gerais e os desafios para o contexto brasileiro, em termos específicos. O capítulo inicia-se por uma contextualização histórica sobre a biotecnologia, seguida de uma discussão sobre a biotecnologia mod...

La Biotecnología ha tenido un desarrollo exponencial en los últimos tiempos, contribuyendo al bienestar del género humano en los campos de la salud, bienestar ecológico, producción de alimentos, entre otros y en conjunto con los avances modernos de la Tecnología de Alimentos se han convertido en importantes elementos de apoyo para el desarrollo sos...

Common barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is an important agricultural crop, when the applied biotechnology methods are used for the development of new varieties. One of the promising biotechnological approaches is the production of haploid plants from anther culture or isolated microspores. The efficiency of these androclinium-based methods depends on th...

En un interesante artículo editorial de hace casi 20 años (1) el Dr. Juan Miguel Castagnino (1926-2019) planteó que cuando James Watson y Francis Crick propusieron la estructura en doble hélice del ADN (2) faltaba aún conocer la vinculación específica de bases nitrogenadas en todo el fenómeno y disciplinas biológicas (1). Pero con la determinación...

Cotton crop yields are largely affected by infestations of Anthonomus grandis, which is its main pest. Although Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) derived proteins can limit insect pest infestations, the diverse use of control methods becomes a viable alternative in order to prolong the use of technology in the field. One of the alternative methods to Bt...

BPS data for Mempawah Regency shows that aquaculture production in the Anjongan District is 163 tons/year. This production result is still lower compared to other sub-districts. One of the factors causing the not-yet-optimal effects of aquaculture production in the Anjongan District is the limited mastery of aquaculture technology. Biotechnology in...

This study assessed the structure and genetic diversity of rice populations of Southeast Asian varieties, based on quantitative morphological and molecular traits. Population structure analysis revealed four distinct populations as ancestral origin of the varieties in the collection. Some traditional varieties from different countries share the sam...

Development of transgenic crops with stable gene inheritance and expression over generations is important for effective deployment at field level. In present study, T 1 plants of pigeonpea cultivars AL15 and AL201 were evaluated for the presence and expression of cry1Ab gene and protection against Maruca pod borer. Cry1Ab protein in transgene carry...

Lignin presents important functions for plants as resistance, conduction and defense. In additions, this com- pound developed support for plants to grow up against the gravity. The lignin has many positive characteristic that can influence the plant life and this has open great interest to study the lignification process in cells, and the industria...

Petroleum hydrocarbons and their derivatives constitute the leading group of environmental pollutants worldwide. In the present global scenario, petroleum and natural gas production, exploration, petroleum refining, and other anthropogenic activities produce huge amounts of hazardous petroleum wastes that accumulate in the terrestrial and marine en...

Background Clinicopathological diagnosis and follow-up of oral lichen planus and leukoplakia are necessary due to its potential for malignant transformation and the need to differentiate it from other lichenoid diseases and proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. This study aimed to classify and compare sociodemographic and clinicopathological feature...

According to literature, the apple cultivar SCS425 Luiza is a hybrid of Imperatriz ♀ and Cripps Pink ♂ ; however, molecular analysis of gametophytic self-incompatibility alleles showed the presence of an unexpected allele in SCS425 Luiza. This raised doubts about the fidelity of the pedigree. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the real genealogy...

El desarrollo de tecnologías para la edición del genoma ha abierto la posibilidad de apuntar directamente y modificar secuencias genómicas en casi todo tipo de células eucariotas.La edición del genoma ha ampliado nuestra capacidad para dilucidar la contribución de la genética a las enfermedades al promover la creación de modelos celulares y animale...

Rising global greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of resultant climate change necessitate development and deployment of carbon capture and conversion technologies. Amongst the myriad of bio-based conversion approaches under evaluation, a formate bio-economy has recently been proposed, wherein CO2-derived formate serves as a substrate for concu...

The commonly-used expression systems in Saccharomyces cerevisiae typically rely on either constitutive or galactose-regulated promoters. The lack of inducible systems in S. cerevisiae limits the precise temporal regulation of protein function and yeast metabolism. We herein repurposed the galactose-regulated system to make it respond to cyanamide....

1. Introdução Apesar da humanidade usufruir de produtos provenientes de processos biológicos, desde o início das civilizações, foi apenas na segunda metade do século XX que se começou a observar os bioprocessos de forma aprofundada, otimizando os conhecimentos científicos acerca de diversos acontecimentos até então incompreendidos. Estes estudos cu...

The first genome sequenced of a eukaryotic organism was for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as reported in 1996, but it was more than 10 years before any of the zygomycete fungi, which are the early-diverging terrestrial fungi currently placed in the phyla Mucoromycota and Zoopagomycota, were sequenced. The genome for Rhizopus delemar was completed in 20...

One of the most popular, cost‐effective crops that are consumed globally is the potato. Due to the expanding food crisis, there is an increase in the demand for potato‐based agro‐food items. At the same time, it is noted that this pathway of ecological pollution from large‐scale wastes is challenging to manage. The food sector generates a lot of wa...

The article showed that the internal land development projects, which include the organization of the territory, along with other measures, will give certain positive results in the rational organization of the use of dry land. Land planning projects developed based on land assessment data create an opportunity to optimize areas of arid lands and c...

Dolichos bean is grown in environments with short and long crop growth seasons. Development and deployment of cultivars with flowering time (FT) that matches prevailing crop growth season help maximize their productivity in the environments to which they are targeted. Dependable knowledge on genetic basis of FT enables the use of the most appropria...

Introduced pests (insects and pathogens) have rapidly increased the numbers of at-risk native forest tree species worldwide. Some keystone species have been functionally extirpated, resulting in severe commercial and ecological losses. When efforts to exclude or mitigate pests have failed, researchers have sometimes applied biotechnology tools to i...

Multi-omics datasets are becoming of key importance to drive discovery in fundamental research as much as generating knowledge for applied biotechnology. However, the construction of such large datasets is usually time-consuming and expensive. Automation might enable to overcome these issues by streamlining workflows from sample generation to data...

Se describe la biotecnología moderna y se define la biotecnología ambiental o "blanca" y la biotecnología industrial, y sus particulares aplicaciones en la recuperación biológica de metales pesados en relaves mineros, en la biorremediación de suelos y cuerpos de agua contaminados, en la producción de biocombustibles (bioetanol, biodiesel y biogas),...

GM crops, as a widely researched and applied biotechnology, hold significant strategic and practical implications for promoting the commercialization of GM crops in China, driving agricultural industry upgrading, and fostering economic and social development. However, despite their potential benefits, the commercialization of GM crops in China has...

La osteoporosis constituye un problema sanitario tanto por su morbilidad y mortalidad como por los costos aparejados. Los avances provenientes de la biotecnología bioquímico - farmacéu-tica buscan aportar mejoras significativas tanto en el diagnóstico como en el tratamiento. Objetivos: Recopilar y revisar la bibliografía científica sobre los hallaz...

Venoms are complex chemical arsenals that have evolved independently many times in the animal kingdom. Venoms have attracted the interest of researchers because they are an important innovation that has contributed greatly to the evolutionary success of many animals, and their medical relevance offers significant potential for drug discovery. Durin...

Extremophilic microorganisms, which are resistant to extreme levels of temperature, salinity, pH, etc., have become popular tools for biotechnological applications. Due to their availability and cost-efficacy, enzymes from extremophiles are getting the attention of researchers and industries in the field of biocatalysis to catalyze diverse chemical...

Aerobic, anaerobic, and anammox bacteria in the form of granular sludge is an applied biotechnology for wastewater remediation. There is substantial motivation to further apply this technology towards resource and energy recovery. For example, some aerobic granular sludge treatment technologies (Nereda) are beginning to generate added resources suc...

We have developed an innovative system that exports diverse recombinant proteins in membrane bound vesicles from E. coli ¹ . These recombinant vesicles compartmentalise proteins within a micro-environment that enables production of otherwise challenging insoluble, toxic, or disulphide-bond containing proteins from bacteria. The release of vesicle-p...

No estado de Goiás, várias instituições atuam na área de educação superior, mas não se tem até então uma análise específica que busca entender como se dá a evolução do conhecimento científico no estado. Através de técnicas de análises de redes e o algoritmo SPLC, foi possível explorar e caracterizar as relações entre artigos científicos e identific...

BRS Rendeira and BRS Progresso are cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) cultivars with tolerance to post-harvest deterioration and high mean yields of fresh root (31.1 and 27.9 t ha-1) and starch (8.9 and 8.1 t ha-1) in annual production cycles. Both new varieties are recommended for the flour and starch industry. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnol...

Since the mid-1960s, methylotrophic yeast Komagataella phaffii (previously described as Pichia pastoris) has received increasing scientific attention. The interest for the industrial production of proteins for different applications (e.g., feed, food additives, detergent, waste treatment processes, and textile) is a well-consolidated scientific top...

We describe an innovative system that exports diverse recombinant proteins in membrane-bound vesicles from E. coli. These recombinant vesicles compartmentalize proteins within a micro-environment that enables production of otherwise challenging insoluble, toxic, or disulfide-bond containing proteins from bacteria. The release of vesicle-packaged pr...

Fusariosis (Fusarium guttiforme) is the most destructive disease of the pineapple crop in Brazil. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reaction to an isolate in pineapple genotypes selected for crownless fruit weight (CFW) and total soluble solids (TSS). A total of 1,125 genotypes ('BRS Imperial'×'Pérola') were evaluated. Selection for greates...

The productivity and health of bee colonies depend on the presence of the honey zone, collecting nectar and pollen throughout the beekeeping season. Honeybees cannot exist in the absence of honey plants. The nectar and pollen of flowers on the territory of Romania constitute a valuable natural resource that would be wasted in the absence of bees, a...

The contamination of agricultural products and aflatoxins synthesis can be controlled and reduced by the application of a biological control product based on atoxinogenic Aspergillus flavus strains. The purpose of this work was to select atoxinogenic Aspergillus flavus strains that can be used in the biological control of aflatoxins. Thirty-four (3...

At present just about 30% of the waste plastic collected is efficiently recycled, while the rest is incinerated, disposed in landfills, or can end up in compost and be released in the environment, inducing a very negative effect on safety and health of flora and fauna. Sustainable management of hardly recyclable plastic waste generated by light wei...

Introducción: Un nuevo brote de coronavirus surgió en 2019 en Wuhan, China, causando conmoción en el sistema sanitario de todo el mundo; el Comité Internacional de Taxonomía de Virus lo denominó SARS-CoV-2, agente causante de la enfermedad COVID-19. El espectro de gravedad de la enfermedad es muy amplio: la mayoría de los pacientes no presentan gra...

La biotecnología vegetal es una disciplina de reciente desarrollo que podría convertirse en una herramienta crucial para enfrentar los problemas mencionados. Los sistemas de cultivo, conservación y propagación masiva in vitro de vegetales pueden ser vitales para la conservación y uso racional de la Biodiversidad en el corto y mediano plazo. Además,...

Bacterial and fungal contamination of the semen collected in production environment largely depends on the sanitary conditions of its collection as well as on the bacteria carrier state in breeding bulls. Since antimicrobials contained in the diluent used during semen product cryopreservation do not allow an objective assessment of semen contaminat...

Currently, the development of so-called “green” and “blue” technologies is one of the key areas of technological development in the world, which enables ensuring the necessary level of economic growth without introducing additional environmental risks. The ability of algae to assimilate inorganic forms of chemical elements and convert them into org...

A inserção da biotecnologia aplicada na indústria de cosmetologia gerou grande impacto em diversos aspectos, proporcionando as empresas cosméticas descobrir, desenvolver e produzir componentes de formulações cosméticas e avaliando a atividade destes na pele, sendo uma ferramenta alternativa para desenvolvimento de ativos com ação renovadora das cél...

Artificial cells are developed to redesign novel biological functions in a programmable and tunable manner. Although it aims to reconstitute living cell features and address ‘origin of life' related questions, rapid development over the years has transformed artificial cells into an engineering tool with huge potential in applied biotechnology. Alt...

Rice is a major energy source and micronutrient for more than half of the world’s population, but it lacks enough zinc to meet human nutritional needs. In addition, climate change, especially rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, is reducing zinc levels in grains. Therefore, rice bio-enrichment has been identified as a major goal for incr...

Background Seed germination and seedling growth constitute the first stage of a plant's life cycle for crop establishment. Arthrocnemum Moq. is a halophyte of the subfamily Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae), which could be recognized in the foreseeable future as an emerging candidate in applied biosaline agricultural programs, mainly due to the large...

The present study aims to analyze the behavior of scientific production on toxicology in cuban scientific journals. For this purpose, a bibliometric study was carried out using as methodology the analysis of production, visibility and collaboration indicators (period, journals, and institutions with the largest number of publications, most cited au...

The incorporation of various flours from seeds into wheat bread can improve its nutritional value. Pumpkin seeds flour can be a good alternative for nutritional enrichment of food products because of its high content of protein, oil, dietary fibers and minerals. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of pumpkin seed flour (PSF),...

Las diferentes herramientas biotecnológicas desarrolladas durante la última década complementan el mejoramiento convencional, reduciendo el tiempo de obtención de nuevos cultivares y aumentando la ganancia genética en estos. A partir de la década de 1980, el desarrollo de los marcadores moleculares había abierto las puertas para el estudio de la di...