The amounts and arrangements of polysaccharides (cellulose hemicellulose), proteins, phenolic lignin, pectin that make up plant tissue, in part, determine its decay rate. Lignin-rich and/or nitrogen-poor tissue has been described as biochemically recalcitrant causing a slow Although controversial mechanism for organic matter storage soils with mineral particles, biochemical recalcitrance is sti...

Biochemical pathways are abstract descriptions of the interactions among the molecular species involved in a process. Different molecular species mentioned in a pathway often represent different states of the same biological entity (e.g. the unbound and bound states of a certain molecule). Hence, a pathway can be seen as a network of interactions between entities which may change state synchron...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of biochemical (enzymes) and nutritional components in the selected honey samples from Malaysia. The relationship is important to estimate the quality of honey based on the concentration of these nutritious components. Such a study is limited for honey samples from tropical countries with heavy rainfall throughout the year...