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Evgeniya A. Bezrodnykh, Oxana V. Vyshivannaya, Boris B. Berezin, Inesa V. Blagodatskikh and Vladimir E. Tikhonov
Edible crayfish are an object of local fishing and artificial breeding in many countries. This industry is very promising in terms of production of healthy foods and byproducts, such as biologically active polyaminosaccharide?chitosan and its derivatives...
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Dong Soo Seo, Joong Su Lee, Yong Chul Shin and Younghoon Jang
Chitosan, poly[ß-(1?4)-linked-2-amino-2-deoxy-d-glucose], is a polysaccharide with broad applications in various biomaterial and biomedical fields, primarily because of its nontoxicity. Because the biodegradable biopolymer chitosan can be catalyzed by th...
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Tracey Somera, Mark Mazzola and Chris Cook
Currently, there are no standard management practices to counteract the adverse effects of fumigation on the soil microbiome. In this study, a variety of pre-plant soil amendments were examined for their ability to recruit and maintain apple rhizosphere ...
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Hyeongwoo Choi, Sang Lyeol Kim, Man-Ki Jeong, Ok Hwan Yu and Seongil Eyun
Chitin, one of the most abundant biopolymers in nature, is a crucial material that provides sufficient rigidity to the exoskeleton. In addition, chitin is a valuable substance in both the medical and industrial fields. The synthesis of chitin is catalyze...
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Jun Hu, He Cui, Mingsheng Hong, Yuxian Xia and Wenqing Zhang
Metarhizium anisopliae is a broad-spectrum entomopathogenic fungus with large-scale applications in pest control; however, its slow-killing action is a limiting factor. To enhance fungal virulence, we constructed transgenic M. anisopliae strains that exp...
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Li-Xin Ma, Rong-Tao He, Shu-Yan Yan and Wen-Jia Yang
Hormone receptor 3 (HR3), an early-late gene of the 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) signaling pathway, plays a critical role in insect metamorphosis and development. In this study, we identified and characterized an HR3 gene (LsHR3) from the cigarette beetle, L...
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Valeria De Matteis, Loris Rizzello, Mariafrancesca Cascione, Paolo Pellegrino, Jagpreet Singh, Daniela Manno and Rosaria Rinaldi
The quest for novel nanoscale materials for different applications necessitates that they are easy to obtain and have excellent physical properties and low toxicity. Moreover, considering the ongoing environmental impact of noxious chemical waste product...
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Zhuo Wang, Su Bin Kang and Sung Wook Won
This study reports the recovery of Pd(II) from acid solution by a polyethylenimine (PEI)-crosslinked chitin (PEI-chitin) biosorbent. FE-SEM analysis demonstrated that there are many slot-like pores on PEI-chitin. The N2 adsorption?desorption experiment r...
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Noa Miguez, Peter Kidibule, Paloma Santos-Moriano, Antonio O. Ballesteros, Maria Fernandez-Lobato and Francisco J. Plou
Chitooligosaccharides (COS) are homo- or hetero-oligomers of D-glucosamine (GlcN) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) that can be obtained by chitosan or chitin hydrolysis. Their enzymatic production is preferred over other methodologies (physical, chemi...
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Sven Wuertz, Arne Schroeder and Konrad M. Wanka
Over the last decades, aquaculture production increased rapidly. The future development of the industry highly relies on the sustainable utilization of natural resources. The need for improving disease resistance, growth performance, food conversion, and...
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