Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins broadly used in various therapeutic and biomedical applications. The variable affinity of lectins towards variety carbohydrates has raised attention for the biologist to explore functional aspects lectins. express specificity simple example mannose, lactose, sialic acid, complex glycan, glycoproteins. classified based on their sugar as a tool study prot...

A sharp decline in the availability of arable land and sufficient supply of irrigation water along with a continuous steep increase in food demands have exerted a pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. A viable solution to release this pressure is to speed up the plant breeding process by employing biotechnology in breeding programs. The majority of biotechnological applicati...

background and objective: genus salacia l. (celastraceae) is a woody climbing medicinal plant consisting of about 200 species with many endangered species located throughout the world’s tropical areas. various parts of the plant as food, functional food additive and tea have been extensively used to treat a variety of ailments like diabetes and obesity as well as inflammatory and skin diseases....

Jürgen Kleine-Vehn,a,b,c Fang Huang,d Satoshi Naramoto,a,b Jing Zhang,a,b,c Marta Michniewicz,c,1 Remko Offringa,d and Jiřı́ Frimla,b,c,2 a Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, B-9052 Gent, Belgium bDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium cCentre for Molecular Biology of Plants, University of Tübingen, D-72076 T...

Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breading Research, 50829, Germany, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS), James Hutton Insti...

Although agricultural biotechnology has been a seminal reference point in risk perception studies, public awareness of their exposure to risk deriving from this new technology has been minimal at best. However, recent events indicate there may be growing public concern as new variations of this technology appear. Understanding what drives perceptions of benefits from the third generation of the...

Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, N–0316 Oslo, Norway (R.K., T.T., M.A.R., H.Z.N., U.H., S.V.V., G.E., R.B.A.); Department of Plant Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B–9052 Ghent, Belgium (J.H., T.L., L.D.V.); and Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bon...