Capture and conversion of CO2 to valuable chemicals is intended to answer global challenges on environmental issues, climate change and energy security. Engineered cyanobacteria have been enabled to produce industry-relevant chemicals from CO2 . However, the final products from cyanobacteria have often been mixed with fermented metabolites during dark fermentation. In this study, our engineerin...

The Fusarium metabolite culmorin (1) is receiving increased attention as an "emerging mycotoxin". It co-occurs with trichothecene mycotoxins and potentially influences their toxicity. Its ecological role and fate in plants is unknown. We synthesized sulfated and glucosylated culmorin conjugates as potential metabolites, which are expected to be formed in planta, and used them as reference compo...

The aim of this investigation was to determine the efficacy of chalcopyrite bioleaching using pure cultures of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans or Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and a mixed culture composed of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans. The experiments were carried out in shake flasks with [Fe] 4 gL 1 and S 1 gL 1 at pH 1.80, 130 rpm and 30 C. Inocula of both...

Tracheary element differentiation and secondary cell-wall formation have been studied in cell cultures of coniferous gymnosperms. Factors that influence tracheary element differentiation are (i) the sucrose concentration in the media, (ii) the concentration of nutrients in the media, (iii) temperature and light, and (iv) the types and concentrations of phytohormones in the media. There are adva...

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare disease and that affecting specifically the sole of the foot, is even rarer. Here, we report the case of a 54-year-old female admitted with a painful ulcer on the sole of the right foot which was initially treated with empirical antibiotics and debridement. The disease was found to spread rapidly after each debridement. The culture reports were negative; rheu...

Whereas the degradation of monoand dichlorinated anilines has been studied, very little is known about fluorinated anilines. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate, under aerobic conditions, the degradation of 2-, 3and 4-fluoroaniline by a previously isolated pure bacterium, designated as strain F11. This microorganism, identified as Labrys portucalensis, was isolated from a ...

Actinomycetes isolated from 10 different soil and compost samples were screened for production of pectinolytic enzyme activities when grown on pectin-containing solid and liquid media. Pectinolytic enzymes, detected by using plate diffusion tests with a medium containing ramie (Boehmeria nivea) plant material as the sole carbon source, were mainly pectate lyases, but low activities of pectinest...

Effect of various fermentation media, carbon sources, nitrogen sources, phosphate concentration and culture requirements includes inoculum levels and age were determined on gentamicin production and biomass dry weight production for Micromonospora echinospora, a gentamicin producing strain. Of the substrates tested, starch as a sole carbon source promoted maximal gentamicin production, while ma...

The utilization of various carbohydrates by species of streptomyces has been suggested by Pridham and Gottlieb (1948), Kurosawa (1951), and Benedict et al. (1955) as an aid in differentiation of species. While the latter investigators have reported that streptomycin-producing strains of Streptomyces griseus will grow on synthetic agar media containing as sole carbon source mannitol, xylose, fru...

Maize is the principal grain crop of the world. It is also the crop where genetic engineering has been employed to a great extent to improve its various traits. The ability to transform maize is a crucial step for application of gene technology in maize improvement. There have been constant improvements in the maize transformation technologies over past several years. The choice of genotype and...