Spent mushroom compost (SMC), a byproduct of commercial mushroom cultivation, poses serious environmental problems that have hampered the growth of this important agro-industry. In an effort to develop new applications for SMC, we explored its use as a feedstock for bioethanol production. SMC constitutes approximately 30%w/w polysaccharides, 66% of which is glucan. Following dilute-acid pretrea...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an important impact in the actual medicinal therapy, having indications in covering the range from rheumatic inflammations to cardio-vascular, genito-urinary and stomatological diseases. Flufenamic acid is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, from the class of fenamates. It exhibits poor aqueous solubility, accordingly the aim of this study was to en...

Sphingopyxis terrae, and Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strains 103 and 203, can degrade polyethylene glycols (PEGs). They differ in the following respects: (i) different substrate specificities (chain length) of assimilable PEG, (ii) PEG-inducible or constitutive PEG-degradative proteins, and (iii) symbiotic or axenic degradation of PEG. S. terrae was able to incorporate PEG 6000, but strain 103 ...

Rapeseed is a valuable oil crop due to its high nutritious value and ample content. The current study provides comparative analysis of 24 cultivars better understand the performance predict adaptative mechanisms drought-tolerant drought-sensitive based on germination morphophysiological traits during early seedling stage using PEG-6000 simulated drought conditions. JYZ 158 FY 520 (tolerant cult...

The current study includes the screening of indigenous extracellular laccase producing fungus from the soil, identified as Phanerochaete chrysosporiumspecies.The selected strain was applied under the optimized condition for the production of  laccase in the solid state fermentation. The effect of polyethylene glycol and Triton X-100 on the enhancement of enzyme activity and bi...

Drought, salinization and heavy metal pollution of soils are main stress factors with an increasing impact on the deterioration soil quality, yield crop quality. Seed priming shows good results in improving seed germination, seedling growth plant development. Proline (Pro) metyl jasmonate (MeJA) show stimulating activity help plants overcome stress. The study investigated effect Pro, MeJA hydro...

Abstract Global climate change induced environmental stress such as salinity significantly impact growth and crop productivity. Red amaranth ( Amaranthus tricolor L.) is a vegetable commodity that has high nutritional value, but its productivity will decrease when grown in saline area. Seed priming one of the pre-planting treatment techniques used to increase plant under unfavourable conditions...

Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are very important for plant growth, development, and abiotic stress tolerance. Galactinol synthase (GolS) raffinose (RFS) critical enzymes involved in RFO biosynthesis. However, the whole-genome identification responses of their coding genes potato remain unexplored. In this study, four StGolS nine StRFS were identified classified into three five subgro...