Melanin: A Solution for Photoprotection of Bacillus thuringiensis Based Biopesticides
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Melanins can be obtained by chemical and microbiological synthesis, or by extraction from animal and plant tissues. One of the major problems in studying melanins, is the lack of adequate methods for the isolation of pure melanin pigments. Remarkably, little is known about the structures of melanins, despite their abundance in the global biomass. This is due to the inability of current biochemical and biophysical techniques to provide a definitive chemical structure, because these complex polymers are amorphous, insoluble, and not amenable to either solution or crystallographic structural studies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014