Chromium is a pollutant present in tannery wastewater, its removal is necessary for protection of the environment. Penisetum purpureum, Brancharia decumbens and Phragmites australis were grown hydroponically in experimental gravel beds to determine their potential for the phytoremediation of solutions containing 10 and 20 mg Cr dm. These concentrations, similar to tannery wastewater after initi...

Many Penicillium species could produce extracellular enzyme systems with good lignocellulose hydrolysis performance. However, these species and their enzyme systems are still poorly understood and explored due to the lacking of genetic information. Here, we present the genomic and secretomic analyses of Penicillium decumbens that has been used in industrial production of lignocellulolytic enzym...

Protodioscin is used as a marker of saponin content that could cause hepatotoxicity in ruminants. In Brachiaria spp. from two regions of the Colombian Eastern Plains (east mountain range of the Andean-"piedemonte" and Ariari River Valley) were determined this metabolite at 14 and 28 days post-cutting under different climatic conditions. No protodioscin was detected in B. dictyoneura or B. humid...

Quatro saponinas esteroidais e três sapogeninas foram identificadas das partes aéreas de Brachiaria decumbens. As estruturas desses compostos foram estabelecidas através de métodos químicos e espectroscópicos (RMN de H e C, HMBC, HMQC) como 3 -metóxi-lanost-9(11)-eno (1), diosgenina (2a), iamogenina (2b), 3-O-D-glicopiranosil-24(S)-etil-22E-deidrocolesterol (3a), 3O-D-glicopiranosil-24(R)-etil-...