Natural colours are produced from edible plant parts (fruits, flowers, roots, leaves) and from animal raw materials, such as blood, chitinous exoskeletons of insects, and muscle tissue. New technologies have also made it possible to obtain colours from algae, fungi, and mould. Natural colouring...
Because CMBS is active in winter (Wright et al. 2023), we left all plants in the field until March and then destructively sampled plants to document persistence of populations or additional failed or successful establishments through winter. Each individual plant was checked visually for CMBS, the...
The presence of Bt on plant foliage also explains the common isolation of the bacterium from feces of herbivorous animals (Lee et al., 2002; Maheswaran et al., 2010). However, Bt presence on foliage would be transient, whereas spores can bioaccumulate and remain viable for long periods in ...
Molecular docking is a computational technique that predicts the binding affinity of ligands to receptor proteins. Although it has potential uses in nutraceutical research, it has developed into a formidable tool for drug development. Bioactive substance
To increase water uptake under dehydration conditions, plants expand their roots and produce a branched root system [45]. Increased allocation of biomass to the roots under drought conditions and expansion of the plant root system generally lead to greater water uptake capacity [46]. Thus, under ...
To further evaluate whether carbon fixed through CO2electrolysis could be used to produce plant-based food, we examined the potential of acetate to serve as a carbon and energy source for crops. We tracked acetate incorporation into plant biomass using heavy-isotope13C-acetate labelled at both car...
When combined with other key nutrients such as protein and calcium, the carbohydrates in milk help make a balanced diet. In addition, the majority of a2 Milk® products contain no added sugar, but you can also indulge in some of these products without the guilt. For instance, a2 Milk ...
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Epiphytic microbes are those that live for some or all of their life cycle on the surface of plant leaves. Leaf surfaces are a topologically complex, physicochemically heterogeneous habitat that is home to extensive, mixed communities of resident and transient inhabitants from all three domains of ...
Plant survival depends on a balance between carbon supply and demand. When carbon supply becomes limited, plants buffer demand by using stored carbohydrates (sugar and starch). During drought, NSCs (non-structural carbohydrates) may accumulate if growth stops before photosynthesis. This expectation is...