Page
%P
1,285 Result(s)
within
Life Sciences
Agriculture
Biotechnology
Chemistry/Food Science, general
**yi **a
-
Chapter
Molecular Farming of Industrial Proteins from Transgenic Maize
Recombinant egg white avidin and bacterial B-glucuronidase (GUS) from transgenic maize have been commercially produced. High levels of expression were obtained in seed by employing the ubiquitin promoter from ...
-
Chapter
Food Plant-Delivered Cholera Toxin B Subunit for Vaccination and Immunotolerization
Developments in recombinant DNA technology have enabled molecular biologists to introduce a variety of novel genes into plant species for specific purposes. From crop improvement to vaccine antigen and antibod...
-
Chapter
Production of Food Related Colorants by Culture of Plant Cells
Betalains are vacuole pigments produced solely by Caryophyllales plants and few superior fungi. For many years, betalains have been used as food colorants. The aim of the present chapter is to present relevant...
-
Chapter
Recent Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology and Opportunities for Contract Research and Development
The global market for agriculture products and agriculture-based value-added products is undergoing change as the top players in agriculture and agricultural biotechnology face increased consolidation and ulti...
-
Chapter
Recent Progress in Biotechnology of Mexican Medicinal Plants
Based on traditional medicinal knowledge, it was possible to identify the plant species Solanum chrysotrichum as the source of a new antimycotic agent designated SC-1. Cell suspension batch cultures from this pla...
-
Chapter
Biosynthesis of Ricinoleate in Castor Oil
Castor oil is 90% ricinoleate (12-hydroxyoleate) and has numerous industrial uses. Components of castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) pose serious problems to processors. Other researchers have cloned the gene for t...
-
Chapter
Biochemical and Molecular Tools for the Production of Useful Terpene Products from Pepper (Capsicum Annuum)
Among other natural products such as colorants and flavorants, natural fungicides like the pepper phytoalexin capsidiol, and the related biochemical pathways, may be used for practical approaches. Key enzymes ...
-
Chapter
Combinatorial Chemistry and its Applications in Agriculture and Food
Combinatorial chemistry has become a major focus of research activity in the pharmaceutical industry for development new therapeutic compounds. The same techniques could be potentially applied to benefit agric...
-
Chapter
Molecular Strategies to Improve The Nutritional Quality of Legume Proteins
Legume proteins are relatively deficient in the sulfur amino acids. Among the different strategies to increase the sulfur amino acid contents of legumes, we have chosen to increase the biosynthesis of endogeno...
-
Book
-
Chapter
Improvements in Human Health Through Production of Human Milk Proteins in Transgenic Food Plants
Plants are particularly suitable bioreactors for the production of proteins, as their eu-karyotic nature frequently directs the appropriate post-translational modifications of recombinant proteins to retain na...
-
Chapter
Autoantigens Produced in Plants for Oral Tolerance Therapy of Autoimmune Diseases
Oral administration of protein antigens can induce antigen-specific immune hy-poresponsiveness and may be useful in treating autoimmune diseases or preventing transplant rejection. However, the therapeutic val...
-
Chapter
Novel Chemicals from Plants via Bioengineering
Novel chemicals were traditionally extracted from medicinal plants or produced synthetically. However, new development in the field of bioengineering has allowed production of novel products from plants such a...
-
Chapter
Production of Recombinant Blood Factors in Transgenic Plants
The production of recombinant proteins for therapeutic use in transgenic plants has become an alternative to the isolation of these molecules from natural or other recombinant sources. Plant bioreactors offer ...
-
Chapter
Manipulation of Plant Oil Composition for the Production of Valuable Chemicals
The first transgenic crop with a modified seed oil composition was released for commercial use in 1995. Many additional transgenic rapeseed varieties expressing novel seed oils or proteins are now under develo...
-
Chapter
Chemicals from Roots, Hairy Roots, and Their Application
Plants produce thousands of different compounds through the secondary metabolism pathways. Since many of these products are obtained by direct extraction from plants that are cultivated in the field or some ti...
-
Chapter
Monoterpenes in Essential Oils
Monoterpenes are compounds found in the essential oils extracted from many plants, including fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs. These compounds contribute to the flavor and aroma of plant from which they ar...
-
Chapter
Towards the Production of Salt-Tolerant Crops
Crop production is affected by numerous environmental factors, with soil salinity and drought having the most detrimental effects. Attempts to improve yield under stress conditions by plant breeding have been ...
-
Chapter
Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Future Challenges of Agriculture
Feeding the growing global population, anticipated to be 8 billion by the year 2020, is one of the most important recent challenges of agriculture. The increase in cereal grain yield, to cope with this demand,...
-
Article
Dietary Acrylamide and Cancer Risk in Humans: A Review
In April 2002, researchers from the Swedish National Food Administration reported that they had detected elevated levels of acrylamide in commonly consumed baked and fried foods. Acrylamide is known as a neuro...
