The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects gases emitted by blends biodiesel with petroleum diesel at intermediate concentrations (between 10 % and 40 %) on biochemistry lichen Cladonia verticillaris (Raddi) Fr. Samples respective species were exposed during a period sixty minutes, using stationary engine, 20 (B20), 25 (B25) 30 (B30) biodiesel, from oil cotton, diesel. In 30, 60 90...

Understanding how specific protein environments affect the mechanisms of non-radiative energy dissipation within densely assembled chlorophylls in photosynthetic protein complexes is of great interest to the construction of bioinspired solar energy conversion devices. Mixing of charge-transfer and excitonic states in excitonically interacting chlorophylls was implicated in shortening excited st...

[(3)H]- and delta-[(14)C]Aminolevulinic acids were incorporated into the chlorophylls of Skeletonema costatum, a marine plankton diatom. In the stationary phase of growth, the tetrapyrrole-based pigments reached steady-state labeling after 10 hours. Under conditions of exponential cell division and chlorophyll accumulation, (3)H was rapidly lost from the labeled chlorophylls and was replaced wi...

Jalapeño peppers at intermediate ripening stages (IRS) are typically discarded at the packinghouse because they are not demanded for fresh consumption or industrial processing. These peppers have been scarcely studied in terms of pigment composition and bioactivity. In this study, the profile of pigments (carotenoids and chlorophylls) and antioxidant activity were determined in raw and heat-pro...