In the early stages of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) selection programs, large numbers of clones are tested in non-replicated plots. Field trends are likely to affect the performance of these non-replicated experimental genotypes and mask their true genetic potential. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different spatial analyses for their relative efficiency in accounting for field trends i...

Ethanol tolerance is one of the important characteristics of ethanol-producing yeast. This study focused on the improvement of ethanol tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae NR1 for enhancing ethanol production by random UV-C mutagenesis. One ethanol-tolerant mutant, UVNR56, displayed a significantly improved ethanol tolerance in the presence of 15% (v/v) ethanol and showed a considerably higher...

A trickle irrigation experiment on sugarcane was established in October 1985 on the SASA Experiment Station farm at Shakaskraal. The objectives were to establish suitable operating procedures, to measure cane yield potential, and to study the effects of factors such as fertigation and crop row spacingon yieldsoftrickle irrigated sugarcane. The results ofthe plant and first ratoon crops of this ...

Sugarcane bagasse was delignified with alkali and peracetic acid in a two-stage process to obtain pulps with high yield and low kappa number. The experimental results indicated that alkali pretreatment prior to peracetic acid (PAA) delignification could significantly reduce PAA loading by partially removing lignin and swelling the fibers. An optimum condition for the two-stage delignification w...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is a prerequisite for effective saccharification to produce fermentable sugars. In this study, "green" solvent systems based on acidified mixtures of glycerol carbonate (GC) and glycerol were used to treat sugarcane bagasse and the roles of each solvent in deconstructing biomass were determined. RESULTS Pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse at 90...

The fast pyrolysis behaviour of pretreated banagrass was examined at four temperatures (between 400 and 600 C) and four residence times (between ~1.2 and 12 s). The pretreatment used water washing/leaching to reduce the inorganic content of the banagrass. Yields of bio-oil, permanent gases and char were determined at each reaction condition and compared to previously published results from untr...

specific hybridization has reduced disease problems, increased biomass yield and sugar yield, and improved Direct screening of genomic libraries for highly expressed genes adaptability for growth under various stress conditions is an efficient way to identify promoters that confer high levels of (Roach, 1972; Srivastava et al., 1994). gene expression. To test the efficacy of this approach to is...

At present, fully mechanized cultivation (FMC) has begun to be utilized in commercial sugarcane production China. To provide new insights into whether cane yield and health are altered by cultivations, the endophytic microbial community structure stems of that underwent conventional artificial (CAC) were compared. The results showed diversity richness microorganisms, except for bacterial sugarc...

Solid-state fermentation of sugarcane bagasse by Penicillium citrinum MTCC 2553 was optimized to maximize the yield of xylanase. Preliminary experiments carried out with various lignocellulosic materials revealed sugarcane bagasse to be the most suitable substrate for producing xylanase. Response surface methodology was used in the optimization. Xylanase activity was maximized in a 5-day batch ...

The present paper describes enhancement of lignans, phyllanthin and hypophyllanthin present in Phyllanthus amarus plant. Supplementation was done to enhance secondary metabolites by modifying the media and treatment with different growth promoters and abiotic elicitors to increase the content of hepatoprotective bioactives in immobilized cell cultures, after incubation for 21 days. MS medium wa...